New York Times Magazine: The Animals Are Talking. What Does It Mean?
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/20/magazine/animal-communication.html
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New Yorker Magazine: “The Case for Free-Range Lab Mice”
A growing body of research suggests that the unnatural lives of laboratory animals can undermine science. https://www.newyorker.com/culture/annals-of-inquiry/the-case-for-free-range-lab-mice
The Nation: “First Came the Hurricane. Then Came the Campaign of Terror”
Climate change made Hurricane Dorian a monster that pummeled the Bahamas’s Haitian minority. Human cruelty made its aftermath brutal. Both could have been prevented. https://www.thenation.com/article/environment/hurricane-bahamas-climate/
New York Times magazine: “Animals That Infect Humans Are Scary. It’s Worse When We Infect Them Back.”
Mink farms threaten to become a source of new coronavirus variants–and an object lesson in how ‘spillback’ can make deadly diseases even deadlier. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/19/magazine/spillback-animal-disease.html
New York Times Magazine: “Animal Planet” How Far Do Wildlife Roam?
An ambitious new system will track scores of species from space–shedding light, scientists hope, on the lingering mysteries of animal movement. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/01/12/magazine/animal-tracking-icarus.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage
Foreign Affairs: “Climate Change Will Drive People Across Borders”
But the real crisis would be making them stay. Reporting for this story supported by the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/central-america-caribbean/2020-07-29/climate-change-will-drive-people-across-borders?utm_campaign=tw_daily_soc&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter_posts
The Nation: “How Trump Is Going to Get Away with a Pandemic”
There are lots of ways for the Trump administration to cook the data to hide the extent of the coronavirus outbreak–in fact, it is already doing so. https://www.thenation.com/article/society/trump-hiding-covid/
The Nation: Think Exotic Animals Are to Blame for the Coronavirus? Think Again.”
Scientists have fingered bats and pangolins as potential sources of the virus, but the real blame lies elsewhere—with human assaults on the environment. https://www.thenation.com/article/environment/coronavirus-habitat-loss/
The Nation: “It’s Time to Tell a New Story About the Coronavirus”
The way we talk about contagion matters. It shapes how societies respond–and whether many of us will survive. https://www.thenation.com/article/society/pandemic-definition-covid/
TIME: “The Pandemic of Xenophobia and Scapegoating”
Even as public health experts race to contain the novel coronavirus outbreak, a potentially more fearsome and shadowy pandemic—aimed at uninfected people unjustly fingered as potential carriers—grows. https://time.com/5776279/pandemic-xenophobia-scapegoating/