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Category: Environment and Conservation
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The New York State Court of Appeals ruled recently that towns can use zoning laws to prohibit fracking. Michelle Bamberger and Robert Oswald, authors of the forthcoming book ‘The Real Cost of Fracking: How America’s Shale Gas Boom is Threatening Our Families, Pets, and Food,’ investigate the potential impact of that decision.
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‘Among Chimpanzees’ is at once an inspiring chronicle of Nancy J. Merrick’s personal search to learn how chimps are faring across Africa and in captivity, a crucial eyewitness account of a very critical period in their existence, and a rousing call for us to join the efforts to be a voice for the chimpanzees, before…
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By Fran Hawthorne Mount Storm Coal-Fired Power Station in West Virginia (by user Raeky via Wikimedia Commons) “Even if Stanford [University] divested itself fully of all its stocks, both fossil fuel and nonfossil, it would probably take the market less than an hour to absorb all the shares. It would not lead the executives of…
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Our fascination with predators is obvious, but it’s also conflicting. We both fear and respect them. Simultaneously, we find them beautiful and abhorrent. Wildlife management expert John Shivik has a term for this conundrum. He calls it “the predator paradox.” At the root of the paradox is one resounding question: Can humans and mammalian predators…
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Naturalist Alex Shoumatoff remembers Peter Matthiessen, writer, visionary, and cofounder of The Paris Review.
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On the occasion of Jane Goodall’s 80th birthday, chimpanzee conservationist Nancy Merrick shares some valuable lessons she learned from her years of working with Goodall.
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Jeannie Marshall, author of The Lost Art of Feeding Kids, offers a tasty alternative to your typical Super Bowl snack.
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Jeannie Marshall, author of The Lost Art of Feeding Kids, shows us how to make a sumptuous tortellini in brodo while passing along the love of real food to the next generation.
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