Where Camels Take to the Sea
In Gujarat, India, a special breed of camel is not constrained by land—but cannot escape the many forces of change.
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In Gujarat, India, a special breed of camel is not constrained by land—but cannot escape the many forces of change.
Shanna Baker Hakai Sep 2020 15min Permalink
Millions of human artifacts circle the Earth. Can we clean them up before they cause a disaster?
Raffi Khatchadourian New Yorker Sep 2020 35min Permalink
Millions will be displaced. Where will they go?
Abrahm Lustgarten The New York Times Magazine Sep 2020 30min Permalink
Here’s how a tiny brush fire became California’s deadliest wildfire.
Paige St. John, Anna M. Phillips, Joseph Serna, Sonali Kohli, Laura Newberry Los Angeles Times Nov 2018 15min Permalink
How UFO culture took over America.
Stephen Rodrick Rolling Stone Aug 2020 40min Permalink
What the journey of swifts, who spend all their time in the sky, tell us about the future.
Helen Macdonald New York Times Magazine Jul 2020 10min Permalink
For the first time, data scientists have modeled how climate refugees might move across international borders. This is what they found.
Abrahm Lustgarten ProPublica Jul 2020 40min Permalink
There are myriad arguments for and against eating roadkill. Can they all be true at the same time?
Katherine LaGrave Outside Jul 2020 10min Permalink
Scientists are studying the extreme weather in northern Argentina to see how it works—and what it can tell us about the monster storms in our future.
Noah Gallagher Shannon New York Times Magazine Jul 2020 25min Permalink
Young climate activists like Jamie Margolin are building a movement while growing up — planning mass protests from childhood bedrooms and during school.
Brooke Jarvis New York Times Magazine Jul 2020 20min Permalink
Sounding a warning on pesticides.
Rachel Carson New Yorker Jun 1962 1h10min Permalink
The planet’s tallest animal is in far greater danger than people might think.
Ed Yong The Atlantic Mar 2020 15min Permalink
Humpbacks are some of the most watched whales in the world, and yet so much of their lives remains a mystery.
Bruce Grierson Hakai Magazine Jul 2020 25min Permalink
At 37, Brian Wallach was diagnosed with the fatal disease. So he tapped a lifetime of connections to give help and hope to fellow sufferers—while grappling with his own mortality.
Brian Barrett Wired Jun 2020 30min Permalink
To speak of the human as such, as the modernists did, is like taking a piece of the wild, putting it into a petri dish, adding bleach and antibiotics until more than half of what’s in there is dead and then celebrating the barely-living remains as “the human.” Provocatively put, the human is a sterile abstraction, a harmony of illusions.
Tobias Rees Noema Jun 2020 Permalink
The story of the loneliest whale in the world.
Leslie Jamison The Atavist Magazine Aug 2014 50min Permalink
EEE kills almost half of its victims, and cases are on the rise.
Oscar Schwartz One Zero Jun 2020 20min Permalink
A cri de cœur on AIDS: “If we don’t act immediately, then we face our approaching doom.”
Larry Kramer New York Native Mar 1983 25min Permalink
A profile of the contrarian French scientist Didier Raoult, who proposed an anti-malarial drug as a COVID cure.
Exploring your subconscious during quarantine.
Anna Merlan Vice May 2020 30min Permalink
The explorers who set one of the last meaningful records on earth.
Ben Taub New Yorker May 2020 50min Permalink
Can genetic engineering bring back the American Chestnut?
Gabriel Popkin New York Times Magazine May 2020 30min Permalink
The island of Borneo is the only home of the proboscis monkey, an endangered primate that is surprisingly resilient.
Jude Isabella Hakai May 2020 25min Permalink
A guide to making sense of a problem that is now too big for any one person to fully comprehend.
Ed Yong The Atlantic Apr 2020 25min Permalink
Wuhan-based virologist Shi Zhengli has identified dozens of deadly SARS-like viruses in bat caves, and she warns there are more out there
Jane Qiu Scientific American Apr 2020 30min Permalink