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Now that its traffic-banishing shuttle system has gone electric, Zion Canyon is quieter, cleaner and a more welcoming home for wildlife ...

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Living Paradigms is a series about what we can learn from the customs and cultural practices of others when it comes to solving problems. It is sponsored by Wonderstruck. Once a month between April ...

Dr. Sean McCormack, chair of the Ealing Wildlife Group, says that although scientific studies are still underway, the beavers have already had an “anecdotal” impact. “A few weeks after they came, ...

About 10 miles downstream, the Waal takes a sharp turn. The river has made this a strategic spot for millennia. Romans established one of the northernmost posts of their empire here; Charlemagne built ...

That clearcut produced 40,000 board feet per acre, which is 30 to 50 percent higher than what a typically managed forest would yield. “Not only is this higher ecological functioning,” says Dunn. “But ...

Last year, Geetha Jayaram flew back to the South Indian region of Karnataka near Bangalore, where she grew up. She visited her very first patient there, Eashwaramma. Twenty-five years ago, when the ...

For the Quechan people, a living river is not just about water — it requires native plants and wildlife. To help bring the Colorado River back to life, the tribe is taking matters into its own hands ...

You could be forgiven for thinking that 2020 was little more than a slow-motion train wreck broken up into 365 individual units. But if you’re a regular RTBC reader, you know that’s not true. Yes, it ...

Unadorned houses and gray sidewalk slabs line the street of the Katendrechtse Lagendijk neighborhood. Here in the Charlois district in the south of the Dutch port city of Rotterdam, the dreariness is ...

As Somporn explains, the fish’s feces help to make the water balanced and are consumed by the shrimp. The processing, he says, isn’t complicated; he’s able to sell the shrimp in just two months and ...