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Is Buying a Piece of Virtual Art Better for the Environment?

May 18, 2021October 21, 2021 - by J.B. MacKinnon

Online consumption behaves exactly like real-life shopping, devouring more and more resources every year

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A 10 Percent World

September 12, 2010April 14, 2020 - by J.B. MacKinnon

Our Earth reflects just one-tenth the biological variety and abundance it once did. What happened?

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Photograph of a hatchling at Ladder Ranch by Steve Dobrott

The Opposite of Apocalypse

March 12, 2009May 25, 2020 - by J.B. MacKinnon

Conservationists are restoring a living tortoise fossil to its prehistoric range. Can we recreate nature?

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