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Category: Environment and Conservation
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The author Ted Dracos recently passed, and his editor at Beacon Press, Alexis Rizzuto, offers this remembrance.
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The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire prompted labor reforms that benefited many workers, but not those who worked in bakeries. The author of White Bread looks at the reasons why.
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From Friday night lights to the Fighting Okra, a small Texas college finds a new use for their football field.
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Steven Hawley makes a powerful argument for why dam removal makes good scientific, economic, and environmental sense—and requires our urgent attention. In the Pacific Northwest, the Snake River and its wilderness tributaries were once some of the world's greatest salmon rivers. As recently as a half century ago, they retained some of their historic bounty,…
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David Gessner writes about John Hay, whom Annie Dillard called, “One of the world’s handful of very great nature writers.”
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Michael Lanza and his family look forward to a yearly, snowy trip to Idaho.
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The author of Food Rebels, Guerrilla Gardeners, and Smart-Cookin’ Mamas looks at the year in Industrial Agriculture.
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Author Michael Lanza talks to National Park Service director Jonathan Jarvis about what climate change means for our national treasures.
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A look at a recent Beacon Press release that examines a serious environmental threat.
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