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This article appeared May 7 in State of the Planet. By Cayte Bosler A landmark new United Nations report warns that the rate of species extinctions is accelerating, and that upwards of one million species are gravely at risk. I practice problem-solving life and death trade-offs for my assignments at Columbia University. This is a constant source of distress as I work on my masters in Sustainabilit

This article appeared on WBUR on May 7, 2019. By Barbara Moran A United Nations report released this week finds that around 1 million plant and animal species are threatened with extinction, with potentially devastating consequences for human health. This has consequences for New England, as development and climate change threaten everything from salt marshes to sea turtles. Biologist E.O. Wilson

This article originally appeared May 7, 2019 in the Chronicle of Higher Education. The naturalist on what’s wrong with STEM, the gladiatorial nature of academe, and the world beyond the human senses. By Charlie Tyson In the hallways of his retirement home in Lexington, Mass. — an upscale community where paintings by Matisse and Manet hang on the wall and former college presidents mill around, drin