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August Bookclub: “Beloved Beasts” by Michelle Nijhuis

The August Book Club will feature Michelle Nijhuis’ award winning Beloved Beasts: Fighting for Life in an Age of Extinction. The book has been the book has been hailed as “at once thoughtful and thought-provoking” as it tells the vibrant and complex history of the modern conservation movement.

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July 9: Book Club #3 – Eve

The July Book Club will feature Cat Bohannon’s best-seller, Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Evolution. 

#nswasciwire – Recent work by our members

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Peeples: Inner Clock

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Petersen: Debunking Antarctic Ice Claim

For USA Today’s Fact Check team, Kate S. Petersen debunks a viral Facebook post that misrepresented new research on...
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Mesa: Struggling Western Wetlands

For High Country News, Natalia Mesa takes us on a tour of some of the West’s wetlands, whose ecological importance is...
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Witze: Moon Training

For a feature in Nature, Alexandra Witze joined a NASA team on its biggest dress rehearsal for Artemis III, the next human...
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Hu: Legalization Woes

In a feature for The Atlantic, Jane C. Hu looks at the decriminalization of marijuana to shine a light on what may become...
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