Reconciliation means meeting a landscape on its own terms.
Encounters
“Encounters” is a serial column by Ruxandra Guidi exploring life and landscape during the climate crisis.
Posted inOctober 2025: Limits to Growth
Inventando hábitats
La reconciliación significa encontrarse con un paisaje en sus propios términos
Posted inJuly 2025: Seeds as Sustenance
Politics and science can mix
The time for trying to remain neutral has passed.
Posted inJuly 2025: Seeds as Sustenance
Necesitamos científicos-activistas
La política y la ciencia pueden mezclarse.
Posted inMay 2025: The Art of the Cruise
Behavior change is society change
How leaders influence our ideas about climate.
Posted inIssues
El cambio de comportamiento es un cambio social
Cómo los líderes influyen en nuestras ideas sobre el cambio climático.
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Audio: Under the shade of a nurse tree
Sacrificing for the benefit of other species.
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Audio: The trill of hummingbirds adapting
Scientists find that Western birds are changing their behavior alongside the climate.
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Urban wildfires shouldn’t surprise us
Southern California is jolted into a new reality.
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Los incendios urbanos no deberían sorprendernos
El sur de California se ve sacudido a una nueva realidad.
Posted inJanuary 2025: The West's Most Wanted
What an ancient saguaro can teach us
A ‘grandpa’ desert keystone species has seen more than you have.
Posted inJanuary 2025: The West's Most Wanted
Lo que un antiguo saguaro puede enseñarnos
Un ‘abuelo’ del desierto que ha visto mucho más que tú
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Audio: How nature can thrive despite human impact
What disturbance-loving plants teach.
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Audio: What do we really learn from trail cams?
Documenting wildlife can bring us back to nature.
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The absolute urgency of voting with the climate in mind
Though it’s been urgent for years.
Posted inIssues
Can words help us out of climate despair and toward repair?
How naming the climate struggle matters.
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Audio: What’s so funny about climate change?
Resorting to absurdity can make people care.
Posted inJune 2024: The Idea of Wilderness
What if the future is the past?
Degrowth offers a path for dealing with our serious environmental issues.
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Audio: The Joshua tree-yucca moth link
These desert species wouldn’t survive without the other. Can they weather climate change together?