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  • The Day I Hit the Brakes

    What if you stopped driving? Not bought a hybrid, or carpooled, or kept your tires inflated. Just stopped. Forever. One man did -- and lived to tell the tale.
  • Make Way for the Movable Beast

    Elephants and lions used to roam the Great Plains, and some scientists would like to put them back. But can we really hope to restore the world to its "original" state?
  • The Buried Treasure in My Backyard

    All in all, a narrow escape.
  • Why the Planet Needs a Free Press

    What do the nuclear meltdown at Chernobyl, the cyclone in Burma, global warming, and freedom of the press have in common? Just ask Mikhail Gorbachev.
  • Welcome to My Paperless World

    Mr. Uhlik . . . has scanned about 100 of his reference books to try to make his home library digital and searchable. Because he wants to keep the house nearly paper-free, most of his remaining 1,000 books are in a shed. He occasionally pays his children to help scan them.—New York Times, February 10, 2008
  • Brief Encounter On The Savanna

    On the African savanna, one woman goes eyeball-to-eyeball with a curious bull elephant and wonders at the earth's endless varieties of self-expression.
  • Time To Be Unfaithful to Old Faithful

    What are we prepared to give up? The reality is that we have to accept some major trade-offs here. The situation is too grim, too urgent, to duck them.
  • Better to Have Loved and Lost?

    How much of their engagement with the natural world is to be a farewell tour, a litany of the last, and how much a celebration of what is?
  • Africa's Next Green Revolution

    The world's billion and a half poorest people -- the quarter of humanity malnourished to the point of brain damage and deformity -- are mostly rural and live on mostly arid lands. Global warming will increase the stock of such lands, especially in Africa.
  • Flying the High-Tech Skies

    Birdwatching used to be seen as the ultimate geeky pastime. But combine it with new online technologies and it can reveal new truths about how our world is stitched together.

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