![The Sonic White](/assets/image-cache/media/images/Galleries/The Sonic White/thumbnail.1945de12.jpg)
by Christo-Wilkinson Family
“The melting ice is the hourglass by which we measure the remains of our time on this earth.”
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by Debra Denker
Great critter cam photos are a matter of luck rather than photographic skill — although a little bit of editing magic can turn a mediocre photo into a great one.
Read more![An excerpt from the cli-fi novel Weather Menders](/assets/image-cache/media/images/Fiction/An excerpt from the cli-fi novel/Thumbnail.9e8bb0dd.jpg)
by Debra Denker
I conceived Weather Menders during a very hot summer visit to the UK in 2013. I had been looking forward to escaping the heat that in recent years has become characteristic of Santa Fe summers by going…
Read more![Seeking Solace on Horseback: Riding Keeps Me Sane During Pandemic](/assets/image-cache/images/features/Seeking Solace/Thumbnail.53f99fe1.jpg)
by Debra Denker
On the first day of autumn, I’m riding through a changing forest — tall, deep green ponderosas interspersed with the butter-gold of aspens, and shrubs ranging from pale crimson to deep russet to coral…
Read more![Saving the Behemoth of the Ice: The Polar Bear](/assets/image-cache/media/images/Galleries/Saving the Behemoth of the Ice/Thumbnail.abec955d.jpg)
by Cyril Christo
With the melting of the world’s ice, the future of the greatest land predator on earth — the polar bear — is very much in jeopardy.
Read more![Protecting the Arctic Refuge: Gwich’in People Defend the Sacred](/assets/image-cache/media/images/Voices/Protecting the Arctic Refuge/Thumbnail.a6d97ced.jpg)
by Debra Denker
It’s obvious that something is very wrong with the land before our plane even lands in Fort Yukon, Alaska, known to its indigenous Gwich’in inhabitants as Gwich’in Zhee.
Read more![A World Without Elephants](/assets/image-cache/media/images/Interviews and Reviews/A World Without Elephants/Thumbnail.5b22e5d8.jpg)
by Zoe Krasney
As I write this, I just learned about the horror of 87 elephants slaughtered for their ivory in Botswana in early September.
Read more![Fighting for Survival: Lifting Up Indigenous Voices](/assets/image-cache/media/images/Dispatch/Fighting for Survival/Thumbnail.7f36d62b.jpg)
by Sarah Abdelrahim
Indigenous peoples play a crucial role in protecting and advocating for global biodiversity. According to the United Nations, there are 370 million Indigenous peoples around the world — almost 5 percent…
Read more![In the Wake of Dolphins](/assets/image-cache/media/images/Field Notes/In The Wake of Dolphins/Thumbnail.87c19665.jpg)
by Debra Denker
The pod of five dolphins gracefully, effortlessly, swims past me, perhaps a dolphin-length away. Entranced, I simply follow. Dolphins swim with powerful vertical thrusts of their tails, and for a few moments…
Read more![The Mighty Giraffe](/assets/image-cache/media/images/Youth/The Mighty Giraffe/Thumbnail.3f14aee3.jpg)
by Lysander Christo
Silent steps of evolution, highest height of all the world. Of all the world a graceful trot, so fast, yet so slow through the savannah, where the elephants trumpet and blow.
Read more![Ghosts in the Grass: The Last Lions of Africa](/assets/image-cache/media/images/Feature/Ghosts in the Grass/Thumbnail.459443fd.jpg)
by Cyril Christo and Marie Wilkinson
In 1925, Carl Jung made a five-month safari to East Africa that would transform his understanding of humanity and the deeper aspects of the human psyche.
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