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THE LATEST NEWS AND NOTES • DEFINING TIME • MARMOT RECOVERY • WILDFLOWER LAWNS • BOOK & PODCAST REVIEWS • THE PULSATING EARTH • PARANOIA-FREE THC?

What Is Time? • THE QUESTION IS MORE PHILOSOPHICAL THAN PHYSICAL — WHICH MEANS WE CAN REDEFINE IT ON OUR OWN TERMS.

MARMOT SCHOOL • ONCE CRITICALLY ENDANGERED, VANCOUVER ISLAND MARMOTS ARE NOW TEACHING EACH OTHER HOW TO RECOVER.

Urban Oasis • BIOLOGISTS ARE RECRUITING EVERYDAY GARDENERS TO SAVE POLLINATORS, WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM A SMARTPHONE APP.

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The Earth Is Pulsating Every 26 Seconds, and Seismologists Don’t Agree About Why • LIKE CLOCKWORK, SEISMOMETERS ACROSS MULTIPLE CONTINENTS HAVE DETECTED A MYSTERIOUS PULSE SINCE AT LEAST THE EARLY 1960s.

WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN BAKING SODA AND BAKING POWDER?

DELTA-8-THC PROMISES A HIGH WITHOUT PARANOIA OR ANXIETY • A VARIATION OF THE FAMILIAR DELTA-9-THC COMPOUND IS GROWING IN POPULARITY AMONG CANNABIS CONSUMERS.

The Tumors That Weren’t • A MYSTERIOUS MASS IN THE LEFT KIDNEY. LESIONS IN THE STOMACH AND LUNGS. ALL SIGNS POINTED TO CANCER. WHAT ELSE COULD IT BE?

Let’s Talk About Reef Grief • CLIMATE ANXIETY IS REAL, AND PSYCHOLOGISTS ARE STARTING TO TAKE NOTICE.

HOW TO SAVE PLANET EARTH • YOUR INDIVIDUAL BEHAVIOR WON’T FIX CLIMATE CHANGE. FIVE EXPERTS SHARE MORE MEANINGFUL WAYS TO THINK GREEN.

THE EXPERTS

DANGEROUS EMISSIONS

EBB and FLOW • AMERICA’S BIGGEST AQUIFER DEPENDS ON THESE DAMAGED WETLANDS. WHAT HAPPENS IF WE FAIL TO FIX THEM?

WHEN THE LAND COMES TO LIFE

HUMAN + NATURE ACCORDING TO WERNER HERZOG • THE ICONOCLASTIC DOCUMENTARIAN AND HIS CO-DIRECTOR, VOLCANOLOGIST CLIVE OPPENHEIMER, TALK ABOUT CELESTIAL ROCKS, FAKE NEWS AND THE “DISNEY-IZATION” OF THE WILD WORLD.

CAN TREES HEAL HEARTS? • RESEARCHERS IN THIS POLLUTED CITY ARE PLANTING THOUSANDS OF TREES IN A BOLD HEALTH EXPERIMENT.

MEDICAL RESEARCH BRANCHES OUT

Gaming the Ecosystem • A VIDEO GAME ABOUT BATTLING ALIENS COULD HELP ECOLOGISTS STUDY LIFE ON EARTH.

Georges Seurat’s Sky • DID OPTICAL EFFECTS FROM VOLCANIC AEROSOLS INSPIRE THE ARTIST’S NEW DIRECTION?

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