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PublishedJune 23, 2021
Dana Wilde: What kind of grass is that?
Ignorance about grasses is startling, writes Dana Wilde, given the fact that we live on them.
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PublishedMay 26, 2021
Dana Wilde: Thoreau and the bluets
If I don’t make it hard for the mosquitoes, writes Dana Wilde, they will innocently do their best to kill me.
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PublishedMay 12, 2021
Dana Wilde: Parables for a changing climate
Temperatures in the last 10 years are markedly higher than any time in recorded history, writes Dana Wilde.
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PublishedApril 28, 2021
Dana Wilde: The April pilgrimage
I wonder, when we reach the promised lands of June, July and August, if it will be record hot again this year, writes Dana Wilde.
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PublishedMarch 24, 2021
Dana Wilde: Forces of nature
In the ancient experience, the stars were forces, detectable through fear, that we are obliged to pay respect to, writes Dana Wilde.
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PublishedMarch 10, 2021
Dana Wilde: Thoreau and the lichens
Thoreau was among the original naturalists to think of the whole Earth, not just his own woods, as one ecologically integrated process of processes, writes Dana Wilde.
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PublishedFebruary 24, 2021
Dana Wilde: Along came a spider
By now it’s more or less accepted medical wisdom that pets provide emotional nourishment for humans, writes Dana Wilde.
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PublishedFebruary 10, 2021
Dana Wilde: Alien invaders
A species of "true bugs" invading our homes started in recent decades, writes Dana Wilde, as they moved eastward amid milder winters.
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PublishedJanuary 27, 2021
Dana Wilde: Spiders in space
What would happen, Dana Wilde asks, if you plunked spiders into a weird environment — like outer space?
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PublishedJanuary 13, 2021
Dana Wilde: The death of the great auks
We like to think we’ve come a long way in conservation. Which we have, sort of, writes Dana Wilde, but the Earth is right now undergoing its sixth mass extinction event.
Backyard naturalist
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