2020 March/April

2020 March/April

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Students in their school uniforms walk and hold a banner that says Earth, on the first Earth Day in 1970.

Feature

6 Authors, Activists, and Organizers Reimagine Earth Day

With Denis Hayes, Jenny Odell, Jedediah Britton-Purdy, Robin Wall Kimmerer, Reverend Lennox Yearwood Jr., and Jamie Margolin

March 2, 2020

Departments

Refica Attwood, executive director of Wallings Nature Reserve in Antigua

Do-Gooder

Refica Attwood Is Antigua's Proudest Treehugger

This activist turned the forest she loved into a national park

By Lebawit Lily Girma

March 5, 2020

Editor’s Desk

How Earth Day Launched My Environmentalist Career

Rallies and protests like Earth Day are key to building a movement

By Jason Mark

February 28, 2020

Illustration of two wolves in the dense, dark Tongass rainforest.

From the Top

Vandals in the Chapel

The Trump administration is targeting the Tongass National Forest

By Michael Brune

February 29, 2020

Andrea Dunlap, multimedia archivist at Makani Technologies

Faces of Clean Energy

The Person Who Controls the Camera Creates History

A kite that can harvest wind power, made possible by Ninja X video skills

Adapted from an interview by Heather Smith

February 27, 2020

Eyewitness

My Grandfather's Shovel Is a Link to My Ancestors

Racism shaped Central Valley farmers as much as backbreaking work picking peaches and grapes

By Nikiko Masumoto

March 9, 2020

A backpacker climbs a trail on the Heaphy Track, on New Zealand's South Island. To the left is a beach and turquoise ocean.

Field Trip

The Trail Family Ties That Bind

A backpacker finds a family on New Zealand’s Heaphy Track

By Ryan MacDonald

March 3, 2020

Union firefighters and Wisconsin residents protest in the Madison state capitol.

Critic’s Notebook

Gerrymandering Monsters

"Slay the Dragon" shows the fall—and nascent rise—of participatory democracy

By Katie O'Reilly

March 6, 2020

Illustrations show a raft of people on a river and a man overboard, then the man is pulled under, swims down, and is about to be pulled back into the raft.

Survive

The Innocuous River Hazard That Kills 40 People a Year

Deadly hydraulic hazards can form behind low head dams and small pour-overs

By Jerry Castellini

March 8, 2020

Turquoise Deuter Kid Comfort Active SL backpack with a toddler leg in a stirrup

Material World

Baby Got Backpack

Our tester and her tot try six kid carrier packs

By Blane Bachelor

March 5, 2020

Changemaker

For This Teacher, Solar Panels Offer the Best Science Lesson

Andrea Abeln helped get her school district to switch to renewable energy

Interview by Wendy Becktold

March 9, 2020

Impossible, Beyond, traditional veggie, and beef burgers have an epic patty meltdown

Taste Test

Which Is the Greenest Burger in the Land?

Impossible, Beyond, traditional veggie, and beef burgers have an epic patty meltdown

By James Steinbauer

March 4, 2020

A caribou in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge

Club News

Goldman Sachs Refuses to Finance Drilling in the Arctic

The bank is the first in the US to make this commitment

By Chloe Zilliac

February 26, 2020

Photo

Out of the Blue

A cormorant takes the plunge

Photo by Henley Spiers

March 3, 2020

Books

A Quest for Redemption, One Spirit Run at a Time

Noé Álvarez chronicles the Peace and Dignity Journey in "Spirit Run"

By Matthew Sakiestewa Gilbert

March 7, 2020

Books

In Neil Shubin's New Book, Everyone's a Time Capsule

"Some Assembly Required" takes the evolutionary long view

By Riley Black

March 7, 2020

Several rusty remnants of metal barrels lie in a wooded area in Michigan.

Protect

America's Overwhelming PFAS Problem

The synthetic chemicals are everywhere and everlasting

By Austyn Gaffney

February 28, 2020

Ask Ms. Green

Is There an Eco Way to Brush My Teeth?

Even "natural" toothpastes can have potentially toxic ingredients

By Jessian Choy

March 4, 2020

2020 March/April

6 Authors, Activists, and Organizers Reimagine Earth Day

Departments

Refica Attwood Is Antigua's Proudest Treehugger

How Earth Day Launched My Environmentalist Career

Vandals in the Chapel

The Person Who Controls the Camera Creates History

My Grandfather's Shovel Is a Link to My Ancestors

The Trail Family Ties That Bind

Gerrymandering Monsters

The Innocuous River Hazard That Kills 40 People a Year

Baby Got Backpack

For This Teacher, Solar Panels Offer the Best Science Lesson

Which Is the Greenest Burger in the Land?

Goldman Sachs Refuses to Finance Drilling in the Arctic

Out of the Blue

A Quest for Redemption, One Spirit Run at a Time

In Neil Shubin's New Book, Everyone's a Time Capsule

America's Overwhelming PFAS Problem

Is There an Eco Way to Brush My Teeth?

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