Mammals are thriving among the vestiges of nuclear disaster. It’s fraught work for the researchers who study them. Nature is taking back Chernobyl. Three decades after a flawed nuclear reactor spewed radioactive material over 200 towns and villages across the borders of Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia, trees grow through abandoned houses, owls hoot from rafters,…
Author Archive | Amy McDermott
Personal balance: upholding environmental ideals in the consumer age
Darby Worth wants to be buried in her front yard. It’s illegal, so the 91-year-old Carmel Valley, California woman is fighting for the right to become compost after she dies. She has been mocked by her neighbors and caricatured by her community. And yet, she persists in the name of nature. Worth may seem extreme on the spectrum…