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Read This Book: The Tangled Tree

All history books should start like The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life…

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Read This Book: Pulphead

The story of “La·hwi·ne·ski: Career of an Eccentric Naturalist” from John Jeremiah Sullivan’s Pulphead: Essays…

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Read This Book: Poached

Wildlife Alliance/Flickr Journalist Rachel Love Nuwer reports from the front lines of the cruel trade…

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Read This Book: The Ravenmaster

Tell me about the last raven you saw. How close did you get? How much…

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Read This Book: How to Be a Good Creature

Do you ever think about how to be a good citizen of the world? It’s…

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The Meat Lobby’s Version of Dietary Recommendations

Matt Brown/Flickr A draft of the latest Dietary Recommendations for Americans said that it’s healthier…

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Read This Book: Genius Foods

Push Doctor/Flickr This one’s for the health nuts. In Genius Foods: Become Smarter, Happier, and…

Read This Book: The Revolutionary Genius of Plants

Plants are good for us. Of the species we’ve discovered so far, 31,000 can be…

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Read This Book: The Truth About Animals

Let’s talk about sloths. Lucy Cooke founded the Sloth Appreciation Society with one thought in…

North Carolina: Petri Dish for Industry-Favoring Agricultural Laws

North Carolina has been and still is a hub for some of the most restrictive and controversial laws in the country, including those favoring the animal ag industry.

Read This Book: The Secret Life of Cows

Did you know that cows can express social preferences? For some people, that’s as easy…

Read This Book: American Wolf by Nate Blakeslee

During Wyoming’s first legal wolf hunting season in 50 years, it cost just $12 to…

Read This Book: Eye of the Shoal by Helen Scales

The average seafloor is about 12,000 feet below the surface. That’s 90 to 99% of…

Read This Book: Buzz by Thor Hanson

Many of us are afraid of bees, but they help to shape our natural world.

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Read This Book: Skeptical Vegan

Skeptical Vegan is a salt-of-the-earth story about on how it felt to grow up and one night go vegan.