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A Life of Science

Chihuahuan Desert rainstorm

West of Eden

By Matthew Roby

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Saguaro in Tucson Mountains

Saguaros: A Family History

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Art + Science at Harvard Forest, Massachusetts

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Feeding the Wild

Missile silo and bunker near Fairdale, North Dakota

Torch Whole Room

Great blue heron in flight over ocean and beach

Why We Have Blue

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Return of the Snow Goose, by Linda Infante Lyons

Iconographies | Alutiiq Portraits + Landscapes

By Linda Infante Lyons

Nature Morte | Birdworks

By Carol Eckert

Ice Visions: Photographs by Erik Hoffner

Ice Visions | Photographs

By Erik Hoffner

Atlantic City: Photographs by Brian Rose

Atlantic City | Photographs

By Brian Rose

Unsprawl Case Studies

Milwaukee Avenue Historic District

Minneapolis, Minnesota

Unsprawl: Community of Civano in Tucson, Arizona

Community of Civano

Tucson, Arizona

Unsprawl: Montgomery County Agricultural Reserve, Maryland, by Claudia Kousoulas

The Agricultural Reserve

Montgomery County, Maryland

Canberra: A Good Sheep Station Ruined

By Catherine Mauk

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The After-Normal: Brief, Alphabetical Essays on a Changing Planet by David Carlin and Nicole Walker

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Life in the Residue: Christopher Schaberg’s Searching for the Anthropocene

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The Beauty of Belonging: Aimee Nezhukumatathil’s World of Wonders

Reviewed by Jessica Gigot

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Dennis Held’s Not Me, Exactly: Poems

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