Katharine Gammon

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    A Slow-Moving Disaster in California

    More than 90 percent of coastal wetlands have been altered or destroyed. What’s next?

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    Sand Mafias Battle for the New Gold

    Violent gangsterism and illegal operations dominate sand mining in the global south.

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    Fire on the Savanna

    Our writer joins researchers in Mozambique to uncover how fire shapes Africa’s grand wilderness.

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    Inside This Extraordinary Living Lab

    At Gorongosa National Park, scientists are determined to understand how an ecosystem recovers from the decimation of war.

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    The Very Hungry Caterpillar and the Ecosystem

    Caterpillars are a remarkable bellwether of environmental changes.

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    A Map of Life Like None Other

    In one of the most biodiverse places on the planet, scientists are charting the amazing web of life.

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    Can Organoids Take Us into a New Era of Medicine?

    Meet the human cell-based models that are better, faster, cheaper—and more ethical to use—than animals.

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    You Eat a Credit Card’s Worth of Plastic Every Week

    What is our hidden consumption of microplastics doing to our health?