IN THE LATE SPRING OF 2017, I moved back to Tucson, Arizona, after more than three decades of living away. I was drawn back ...

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At liftoff one side of its riveted, tantalum vault plate carried waveform etchings of the word “water” spoken in 103 ...

Ackee and Cod had met before. The fruit of this tree is strange even for those of us who grew up eating it. Ackee’s outer ...

Our winter 2024, “Green Screen,” explores representations of nature in film—the ways, for better and worse, that we portray ...

AT ONE POINT, between June and August 2019, Las Vegas had been so thoroughly inundated by a swarm of grasshoppers, an estimated thirty metric tons’ worth, that hotel employees on Fremont Street used ...

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THIS PAST FALL, DreamWorks Animation released The Wild Robot, an animated feature film adapted from Peter Brown’s bestselling young adult book series. It follows a robot named Rozzum 7134 shipwrecked ...

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Introduction: Narratively speaking, environmental crises tend to fall into one of two classes. The first—call it type A—includes Love Canal, Bhopal, and DuPont’s mass production of forever chemicals.