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Global Warming Evolution: Wildlife Shrinkage on the Rise

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Scientists credit human-induced global warming with causing many wildlife species to become scrawnier with each successive generation…

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A New Science Problem—The Solution Is to March

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March for Science rallies around the world on April 22 drew attention to the importance of scientific research in keeping us on track to save the planet…

Nalini Nadkarni. Credit: Bill Holsinger-Robinson, FlickrCC

Behind the Greens

Interview: Nalini Nadkarni

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I met Dr. Nalini Nadkarni over five years ago at a church service in Olympia, WA. Nadkarni, a forest ecologist at Evergreen State College, was delivering a sermon on trees – or more precisely, on human connections with trees. She is a scientist, not a minister; yet, it’s not unusual to find her giving sermons in […]