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The exhausting political analysis of the ecological crisis finds its last gasp in a book by political theorist Ajay Singh Chaudhary, fittingly entitled, “The Exhausted of the Earth.” His core premise manages to be both undeniable and wrongheaded: ...

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On Feb. 15, Pulitzer Prize-winning author and climate change thought leader Elizabeth Kolbert joined the Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation for its annual

For years, Gateway STEM High School students have read Pulitzer Prize-winning climate journalist Elizabeth Kolbert. On Feb. 12, they got to meet her at a special science storytelling program at Washington University in St. Louis. The event was sponsored by WashU’s Climate Across Curriculum, which connects Gateway STEM in St. Louis Public Schools to faculty experts, campus tours and learning resources.

Award-winning journalist and author Elizabeth Kolbert spoke at Washington University about climate change and the extinction crisis, Feb 12.

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Gourav Mohanty on his novel, Sons of Darkness, and what drew him to writing a grimdark fantasy reimagining of the Mahabharata.

Prisons are responsible for the social and biological death of the humans trapped within them, the animals whom it coerces prisoners to farm and slaughter, free-living animals displaced by prison building, as well as the ecosystems and waters destroyed by prison effluent which makes the lives of those dependent upon these systems and resources for survival, unliveable. In the context of the Sixth Extinction, the prison is at once one of the most resource intensive institutions contributing to An...

One of the themes of the Custodians of Professional Hunting and Conservation annual conference, held last month near the riverside Free State town of Parys, was conservation and messaging. As I have noted before, debates around hunting are often misleadingly portrayed — usually by animal welfar...