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The bestselling author and her daughter Lily remember the day "Coyote's Wild Home" was born.

Barbara Kingsolver and her daughter Lily remember the day “Coyote’s Wild Home” was born at Barbara’s farm in the Appalachian region of southwestern Virginia. This beautiful new picture book will be published Tuesday by Emilie and Dana Buchwald’s Edina-based Gryphon Press, and it’s a coup for a small publisher to attract an author such as […]

Tuesday, August 15, 2022 - Yesterday’s interview about Monarch butterflies reminded us about one of our favorite interviews from last year when we spoke with Dr. Jonathan Balcome, biologist and author of the book “Super Fly: The Unexpected Lives of the World’s Most Successful Insects.” So here is an encore of that conversation as he’s interviewed by Ashley Thornberg. ~~~ Admiral Rachel Levine is an assistant secretary for health at the US department of Health & Human Services. Her ...

Thursday, June 10, 2021 - There are roughly 7 billion humans on Earth. That’s a huge number, but it pales in comparison with the 17 quadrillion (17,000,000

As we sat on the rocks along North Creek after a morning of birding, Michael and I used our binoculars to look at the tiny fish wiggling nearby. One had bright yellow fins, like some exotic fish you might see on a coral reef; another a long black stripe. I am clueless when it comes to fish species, but I know beauty when I see it. A breeding bird survey Michael is doing for the U.S. Geological Survey is taking us through trout fishing territory along North Creek and Jennings Creek in Botetourt ...