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#ForewordFriday: Great Lakes Water Wars

By Jada Mosley / On February 22nd, 2019
This edition of The Great Lakes Water Wars is an engrossing, essential book for readers of the first edition and new readers alike.  

We can’t win the climate battle without healthy forests

By Joe Landsberg, Richard Waring / On December 19th, 2016
Most people now accept that the world’s climate is changing rapidly as a result of human activities — mainly the direct emissions of carbon dioxide and other gases that trap heat radiating from the earth, causing the temperature of our small blue planet to rise. This is leading to all sorts of political, economic and ecological problems.
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The Wilderness Act at 50: Learning from the Imperfect

By Richard Waring / On August 28th, 2014
Editor's note: September 3 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the signing of the Wilderness Act. To commemorate the anniversary, we asked a small group of Island Press authors to reflect on the influence of this law to date and how its role may or should change as we move into an uncertain future. We are sharing the series this week and next. This post was written by Richard Waring with assistance from coauthor Joe Landsberg.
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The Corpse Flower and the Honeysuckle

By Eric Dinerstein / On July 23rd, 2013
Considering the lines stretching around the block ten years ago to witness one of nature’s masterpieces, you might want to arrive early when the National Botanic Garden opens its doors. Trained botanists, tropical ecologists, and naturalists must queue patiently alongside curious visitors from Toledo. All eagerly await a chance to pay homage to the world’s largest flowering plant, the titan arum, now opening (literally) at the Garden. This floral extravaganza will likely run a few more days before Amorphophallus titanum returns to normal life and goes out of bloom.