Albert Schweitzer, the 20th century humanitarian, did his work through an ethical framework he called “reverence for life.” By that, he meant all forms of life. It’s always amazing to learn about stories in which human beings, known for creating many ways of killing and torturing human and other beings, will risk their lives to …
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Next month, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will be looking for the return of Joe Biden. Not the president of the United States, but an orphaned piping plover, abandoned by its mother in June, rescued by the Service, and hatched at the Detroit Zoo. Joe was rehabilitated on North Manitou Island, in Lake Michigan, a …
If there is such a thing as a winner in climate change, the Great Lakes region is poised to be a desirable alternative to places that have become inhospitable to heat, drought, wildfires, and rising ocean waters. It always was a temperate region, much colder in the north, but only for a few months, and …