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EnvironmentFebruary 28, 2023
Why More Alaskans Aren’t Fighting a Huge Potential Oil Project on the North Slope
Alaska residents are living in an impossible situation: The state depends on oil to sustain itself—and that economy is simultaneously wreaking permanent damage on both the Arctic and the rest of the planet.
Madeline Ostrander
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EnvironmentDecember 14, 2022
The Future of Climate Adaptation Is Here in the Native Village of Newtok, Alaska
Newtok has been moving to safer ground while facing mounting crisis. A story of both struggle and success, it’s become a model for communities in the path of disaster.
Madeline Ostrander
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EnvironmentNovember 23, 2022
This Holiday Season, You Can Find Ways to Talk to Your Family About the Climate Crisis
Once you ask people about the ways they see the climate changing around them, many want to engage.
Madeline Ostrander
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SocietyAugust 4, 2022
In the Era of Climate Migration, What Will “Home” Mean?
You can cling to home as property—fight for yourself and your own financial gain. Or you can love a home and belong to it—and defend community, place, and planet.
Madeline Ostrander
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Election 2020August 23, 2019
In 2020, Millennials and Generation Z Could Force Politicians to Deal With Climate Change
For the first time, younger people, across the board, are more motivated to act on climate change than their elders.
Madeline Ostrander
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October 11, 2017
The Grain That Tastes Like Wheat, but Grows Like a Prairie Grass
For 12,000 years, human agriculture has cultivated grains that are replanted every year, at enormous environmental cost. Kernza represents a new way forward.
Madeline Ostrander
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EnvironmentJune 19, 2017
How to Protect the Environment Where It’s Worked by Human Hands
In Rancher, Farmer, Fisherman, Miriam Horn reminds us what Middle America looks like as a place, not an ideology.
Madeline Ostrander
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Environmental ActivismJuly 1, 2016
This Keystone Activist Is Bringing the Tactics That Defeated the Pipeline Into the Democratic Party
Until now, the movement against climate change hasn’t waded into party politics. With the 2016 election, that’s changing.
Madeline Ostrander
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Climate ChangeMay 5, 2016
Letters From the May 23-30, 2016, Issue
Childbearing vs. child-rearing… Lost in translation?…
Our Readers, Madeline Ostrander and Cynthia Haven
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Climate ChangeMarch 24, 2016
How Do You Decide to Have a Baby When Climate Change Is Remaking Life on Earth?
Any child born now could, by midlife, see massive storms inundate coastal cities and the Great Plains turn to dust. Could I have one, knowing I might not be able to keep her safe?
Madeline Ostrander