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the elk wrecked the ecosystem there. They ventured into places they hadn’t before, and they ate everything. Shrubs, saplings, everything. Soon, there was no ground cover, and the soil was eroding, and it was fucking up waterways, and all sorts of other species were thrown out of whack because of it. A huge mess. But if you think about it from the e

Becky Chambers • A Psalm for the Wild-Built (Monk & Robot Book 1)

Forest Linden

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Eternal learner, rabbit holer, curator, and synthesizer. Father, husband, my dog's human, and wilderness wanderer. I write only when I have something worth saying and try to help people through my writing.

researchers attempting to shorten cattle horns to eliminate the need for painful dehorning practices were forced to present evidence that alterations in the horns would not affect the milk. Unsurprisingly, the milk was indistinguishable

Asterisk Magazine Issue 01 Inaugural Issue

an area that’s cultivated, or turned into pasture for livestock, will feed more human beings than a natural ecosystem. They

Juan José Millás • Life As Told by a Sapiens to a Neanderthal

Bowheads avoided extinction not because a new space opened in the accounting ledger to tally their worth alive. They survived because, in the world outside the strait, they ceased to have value at all.

Bathsheba Demuth • Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait

Wells was best known as a journalist for exposing the lies behind the justification for lynching. Negroes charged with recklessly eyeballing a White woman, or worse, were often people who had found prosperity and respect despite the constraints of Jim Crow. The lynchings put them back in their place. Wells nearly met a similar fate, but escaped as

Imani Perry • South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation

Ellen

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A curious legal crusade to redefine personhood is raising profound questions about the interdependence of the animal and human kingdoms.

Lawrence-wright • The Elephant in the Courtroom

This, in turn, reduced the quantity of iron in the island’s coastal waters. The lack of iron stopped the division and multiplication of microscopic marine life, which meant a famine for the sea creatures that depended on that life to survive. Cutting down trees, then, is not exclusively a suicidal act. It is homicidal as well.