Orion Magazine | Ecology & Science https://orionmagazine.org/category/ecology-science/ America's Finest Environmental Magazine Thu, 14 Sep 2023 17:30:28 +0000 en-US hourly 1 195321810 This Self-Taught Scientific Illustrator Likes to Draw Bugs https://orionmagazine.org/article/bug-scientific-illustrations-joe-macgown/ Tue, 16 Aug 2022 12:04:40 +0000 https://orionmagazine.org/?post_type=article&p=248005 Editor’s note: You’ll recognize Joe MacGown’s work in our latest anthology, The Book of Bugs.  Joe A. MacGown is a self-taught artist originally from Maine but later relocated to Starkville, Mississippi ...

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]]> 248005 What the Supreme Court’s recent EPA ruling means for climate change https://orionmagazine.org/article/supreme-court-epa-climate-change-power-plants/ Fri, 01 Jul 2022 15:57:30 +0000 https://orionmagazine.org/?post_type=article&p=246325 In a stunning blow to environmental protections, the U.S. Supreme Court declared on June 30 that the Clean Air Act does not, in fact, give the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) authority ...

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]]> 246325 The Search for the Golden Spike https://orionmagazine.org/article/golden-spike-search-geology/ Thu, 30 Jun 2022 20:00:17 +0000 https://orionmagazine.org/?post_type=article&p=246179 ALARMED BY FAST-GROWING SCARS of climate change, extinction rates, and ocean acidification, geologists from the International Commission on Stratigraphy—tasked with defining the official Geological Time Scale and known for their glacially-paced ...

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]]> 246179 Spotlight on the Decomposers: Inside the Mysterious Lives of Fungi https://orionmagazine.org/article/fungus-mushrooms-peter-wohlleben-book/ Wed, 20 Apr 2022 18:06:13 +0000 https://orionmagazine.org/?post_type=article&p=243444 Fungi are very special organisms. Scientists don’t really know how to classify them, so they have divided the world of living things into plants, animals, and fungi. Like animals, fungi cannot ...

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]]> 243444 Guardians of Nature https://orionmagazine.org/article/guardians-of-nature/ Tue, 04 Jan 2022 16:25:47 +0000 https://orionmagazine.org/?post_type=article&p=234842 How the Samburu women of northern Kenya are saving their forest. ...

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]]> 234842 True Colors https://orionmagazine.org/article/true-colors/ https://orionmagazine.org/article/true-colors/#comments Wed, 29 Dec 2021 15:51:32 +0000 https://orionmagazine.org/?post_type=article&p=236910 A slight shift in sunlight brings blooms of viridian and teal, sparkling with rills of jade, peridot, and radiant gold, always there but rarely visible. ...

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]]> https://orionmagazine.org/article/true-colors/feed/ 2 236910 Voices from the Aquifer https://orionmagazine.org/article/voices-from-the-aquifer/ https://orionmagazine.org/article/voices-from-the-aquifer/#comments Mon, 27 Dec 2021 21:06:24 +0000 https://orionmagazine.org/?post_type=article&p=238358 A fuel spill from the U.S. Navy poisons the water of thousands in Hawaiʻi.

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]]> https://orionmagazine.org/article/voices-from-the-aquifer/feed/ 2 238358 The Long View https://orionmagazine.org/article/the-long-view/ https://orionmagazine.org/article/the-long-view/#comments Mon, 20 Dec 2021 19:15:11 +0000 https://orionmagazine.org/?post_type=article&p=236691 Autoimmunity and an ecosystem caught in chaos. ...

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]]> https://orionmagazine.org/article/the-long-view/feed/ 5 236691 Animate Earth https://orionmagazine.org/article/the-animate-earth/ Thu, 16 Dec 2021 22:55:32 +0000 https://orionmagazine.org/?post_type=article&p=236694 A multimedia, cross-country journey of Dream Puppet, the poetic knowledges of ancient forests and disabled communities. ...

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]]> 236694 The Dominion of Roots https://orionmagazine.org/article/the-dominion-of-roots/ Wed, 24 Nov 2021 01:10:37 +0000 https://orionmagazine.org/?post_type=article&p=236174 HAVE YOU EVER GIVEN your whole body to a people? There are people who know the paradise of my affection—whose mothers smell like clay. People who remember me. I won’t be ...

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