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Category: Environment and Conservation
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"Near Arctic, Seed Vault Is a Fort Knox of Food", in the New York Times last week, discussed the efforts to create a seed repository as a backup of our seed supply. Claire Hope Cummings, in her new book, Uncertain Peril: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Seeds, discusses the "Doomsday Vault" in more depth,…
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Lisa Couturier is the author of The Hopes of Snakes & Other Tales from the Urban Landscape (Beacon Press, 2006), a collection of essays that explores the relationship between the human and the nonhuman. She holds a master's degree from New York University and is a former articles editor and environmental writer. Her articles and…
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by Pagan Kennedy Last summer, around the time that Leona Helmsley’s dog inherited 13 million dollars, an Austrian chimp named Hiasl got stiffed. Hiasl stood to come into a few thousand Euros, but a court ruled that he could not own property, being a chimp and all. (Technically, the Helmsley dog does not own her…
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by David Gessner I think it’s funny how often people use place as a metaphor for their state of being. "I’m not quite there yet." "I’m getting there." "I’m feeling unsettled." Everyone wants to get there and be there but even the most superficial survey of the animal world will tell you that there’s no…
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by Fred Pearce Nobel prizewinner Al Gore and I go back a long way. True, I’ve only met him once. I shook the hand of the man who used to be the next President of the United States, the latest controversial recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, when his climate-change roadshow came to Cambridge in…
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