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More Human Than Animal
In 2018, Floridians voted to end greyhound racing, a sport they were told was archaic and inhumane. What if they were wrong?
Alum Brent Black brought a passion for nice things to an art form in need of saving.
With “The Bob Ross Experience,” Muncie, Indiana lays claim to its most famous artist—and its status as an art town.
The curly-horned antelope is hanging in there—sometimes from a helicopter.
During times of hardship, community leaders in North Carolina look again to the Roanoke River.
What’s to be done about Appalachia’s beloved, abandoned herds?
What’s the scariest thing to an aphid? A ladybug.
A new study shines light on how bug spray, flashlights, and foot traffic can spell disaster for the fragile creatures behind brilliant synchronous displays.
West Virginians hope elk restoration can help post-mining ecology and local economies recover.
Visitors to Oklahoma’s Salt Plains National Wildlife Refuge help the environment—by hunting for unique crystals.
An endangered species is thriving at a once-blighted lot, but climate change and other challenges threaten its future.
Virginia wildlife rehabilitation hospitals get creative during pandemic.
Researchers determined that the pachyderms fare just fine when they sail suspended from a helicopter.
Along the Maryland-Pennsylvania border, a volunteer group of surveyors is racing to save the stones—and the story—of the Mason-Dixon Line.
The world is full of make-believe. Some of it is sweet, some of it is sick. It persists because we have found no other antidote for pain.
More trees near the home was associated with a reduced risk in antidepressant use, information that can help urban planners.
Paul Linebarger wrote science fiction as Cordwainer Smith. His multiple selves did not stop there.
Appalachia may not seem like scuba central, but the guys at Sarge’s, a low-key, four-decade dive shop, beg to differ.
A new exhibit at the Indiana State Museum wants to break the taboos around addiction and recovery.
