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Friendship, Luck, and Play: A Story of Refugee Resilience
When Señora Lucia Michelena looks at you, she doesn’t blink. She knows what she sees. Ha sufrido mucho, I was told before I met her. She has suffered so much. But during our conversation, Lucia...
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2017: Think Global, Act Local
In 2017, I got to hire local people from the village, not only to run the boat, spot whales, and manage the hydrophone, but also to use the DSLR camera and to enter, correct, and analyze data. Having...
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Season 5 Field Report from Guerrero, Mexico: The Whales are Back to Calve
Aaaaaand we’re off! As I had hoped, it looks like we are having a baby boom this year, as we did in 2015. This means that the mother whales who came here in 2015 to have returned to calve in the same...
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A Lesson from Mexico: How to Forgive Historical Wrongs to Do Right in the...
Sometime in the past ten years, a statue of a child went missing from a little-known park in Mexico City. The details of the disappearance are a mystery, but the reasons for it are easy to divine. The...
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There has been plenty of news coverage lately about the state of foreign relations between Mexico and the United States. But there is one issue — or rather, species — that is continuing to bring the...
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Conservation Accomplishment, Travel Adventure
Mexico’s Hidden Garden, the Sierra Gorda You can sum up the key to this Mexican conservation success in one word: “Inclusion.” Conservationist Martha (Pati) Ruiz Corzo. Photo: Jonathan Tourtellot So...
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Photo Essay: A Visit to the Zapatistas’ First International Gathering of...
From March 8 through 10, thousands of women from around the world converged in southern Mexico for the Zapatistas’ First International Gathering of Women Who Struggle. The meeting took place at the...
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The Art of the Wobble: A Year of Lessons from the Oldest of the Old
“Life always changes. If you don’t accept the changes, what are you going to do? You’re going to suffer.” “But what do you expect? No one ever promised us that life was going to be easy.” “Well,...
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Top 25: Birds of America
The Americas have a rich and varied avifauna. The United States is home to 1107 different species of birds, while Canada and Alaska host 686 and 521 species respectively. Despite being a smaller...
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This is not the first time that immigrant children have been at risk. Here is...
Lately, the news about immigrant children have been bleak. The stories have been controversial, heartbreaking, and deeply disturbing. When one story, a story about immigrant children being lost by the...
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