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Put That Cow on a Diet
July 2019 Issue
Science
We Were Missing Most of the Plastic in the Ocean
Sarah Zhang
June 6, 2019
Health
Everest Is Over
Margret Grebowicz
June 5, 2019
Science
The Green New Deal Has Already Won
Robinson Meyer
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What All the Affection for Monarch Butterflies Misses
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The Opioid Crisis Is Killing Trees Too
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The Surprising Complexity of Animal Memories
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The Care and Keeping of Raccoon Dogs
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An Incredible Fossil Contains a Whole School of 259 Fish
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Why Hundreds of Puffins Washed Up Dead on an Alaskan Beach
Ed Yong
May 29, 2019
Science
The Mystery of the Disappearing Elephant-Seal Dialects
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May 28, 2019
Science
The Tiny Fish That Break a Fundamental Rule of Vertebrate Life
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May 23, 2019
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The Medieval Practices That Reshaped Europe’s Fish
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The Hidden Subsidy of Fossil Fuels
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Science
Another Bat-Winged Dinosaur Has Been Found
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May 8, 2019
Culture
The Pawpaw
Jane Hirshfield
June 2019 Issue
Science
A Very Important Climate Fact That No One Knows
Robinson Meyer
May 8, 2019
Science
The Engineers’ Plan for Creating Border Security With Clean Energy
Amal Ahmed
May 7, 2019
Science
Jay Inslee’s Climate Plan Is Keeping It 100
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May 3, 2019
Science
The Giant Panda Is a Closet Carnivore
Ed Yong
May 2, 2019
Books
A Field of Silence
Annie Dillard
February 1978 Issue
My Boyhood
John Muir
November 1912 Issue
Planet
The Yellowstone National Park
John Muir
April 1898 Issue
