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Vanishing

Blue oak on grass hillside
Voices

Vanishing: In Love With the Blue Oaks

California’s stressed blue oak woodlands abound with beauty and teem with uncertainty.
February 11, 2022
by
Obi Kaufmann
California’s stressed blue oak woodlands abound with beauty and teem with uncertainty.
pika carrying vegetation
Voices

Vanishing: In the Mountains, It Need Not Be Lonely at the Top

A climb in the Cascades to hear the voices of American pikas living at the edge of crisis.
October 22, 2021
by
Laura Dassow Walls
A climb in the Cascades to hear the voices of American pikas living at the edge of crisis.
sawfish on floor of tank
Voices

Vanishing: Sawfishes Are Weird and Wonderful — But Important, Too

A conservation scientist would miss these delightfully bizarre fish if they went extinct, but there’s more to saving them than their looks.
October 8, 2021
by
Helen Yan
A conservation scientist would miss these delightfully bizarre fish if they went extinct, but there’s more to saving them than their looks.
two greak auks
Culture

Vanishing: A Bond Across Centuries

A trip to a remote Newfoundland island to visit one of the last strongholds of the extinct great auks.
September 24, 2021
by
Daniel Hudon
A trip to a remote Newfoundland island to visit one of the last strongholds of the extinct great auks.
glittering starfrontlet on branch
Voices

Vanishing: Avatars of Sweetness

Hummingbirds are a vital force in one writer’s everyday life. Contemplating their loss is almost too much to bear.
September 10, 2021
by
Almah LaVon Rice
Hummingbirds are a vital force in one writer’s everyday life. Contemplating their loss is almost too much to bear.
moose in the snow
Culture

Vanishing: An Augury of Antlers

What if moose, mighty and massive, went the way of bison and other once-abundant species?
August 20, 2021
by
Joanna Lilley
What if moose, mighty and massive, went the way of bison and other once-abundant species?
coral above the waterline
Voices

Vanishing: The Bleaching in My Backyard

A storm in Texas connects with the plight of corals around the world.
August 6, 2021
by
Juli Berwald
A storm in Texas connects with the plight of corals around the world.
bobolink in grass
Culture

Vanishing: Song for the Bobolink

In the diminishing refrains of a bird’s call, signs of our world disappearing around us.
July 23, 2021
by
Rochelle L. Johnson
In the diminishing refrains of a bird’s call, signs of our world disappearing around us.

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