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2 weeks ago | 
hcn.org | Ruxandra Guidi |Gretchen King
Note: This story is intended to be listened to. Text associated below is simply a transcript of the audio. This is our kid, around her first birthday. It was a long time ago. If she finds out I’m sharing the sounds of her whining and crying, she’ll tell me I’m embarrassing her.
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1 month ago | 
hcn.org | Ruxandra Guidi |Gretchen King
Note: This story is intended to be listened to. Text associated below is simply a transcript of the audio. We have a hummingbird feeder. It’s one of those red plastic dishes you can hang by your window, or your porch. This winter in southern Arizona, it’s been particularly active. We’ve seen various kinds of hummingbirds coming to our front yard to feed in January, many of them species that would only typically show up later in the spring. But winter isn’t hummingbirds’ time to be here.
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2 months ago | 
hcn.org | Ruxandra Guidi |Gretchen King
Este artículo también está disponible en español. Years ago, at a friend’s dinner party in Los Angeles, I met someone who told me how hard it had become for him to watch television news, especially when it came to war and ecological devastation. “It’s all too much to bear,” he said, as if he had to excuse himself. I nodded; I, too, find it extremely difficult to take in the ongoing and increasingly dire story of how we’ve disturbed the planet, and how little we are doing to address climate change.
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2 months ago | 
hcn.org | Ruxandra Guidi |Gretchen King
This article is also available in English. Hace años, en la cena de un amigo en Los Ángeles, conocí a alguien que me contó lo difícil que se había vuelto para él ver las noticias de televisión, especialmente cuando se trataba de las guerras y la devastación ecológica. “Es demasiado”, me dijo, como si tuviera que excusarse. Asentí con la cabeza; a mí también me resulta extremadamente difícil reconocer cómo hemos perturbado el planeta y lo poco que estamos haciendo para abordar el cambio climático.
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Jan 1, 2025 | 
hcn.org | Ruxandra Guidi
This article is also available in English. Lo llamábamos abuelo. Calculamos que tenía al menos 100 años. Los saguaros pueden crecer hasta 16 pies en un siglo, y el abuelo era fácilmente cuatro veces más grande que yo, con alrededor de una docena de brazos que se extendían hacia el cielo, desafiando la gravedad. El abuelo vivía en el Parque Estatal Catalina, en las afueras de Tucson.
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Jan 1, 2025 | 
hcn.org | Ruxandra Guidi
Este artículo también está disponible en español. We called him Grandpa. We figured that he was at least 100 years old. Saguaros can grow as tall as 16 feet in a century, and Grandpa was easily four times my size, with about a dozen arms that reached straight up into the sky, defying gravity. Grandpa lived in Catalina State Park in Tucson’s outskirts. He stood in a clearing along one of the park’s most traveled paths, overlooking a wash that typically ran dry.
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Nov 27, 2024 | 
hcn.org | Ruxandra Guidi |Gretchen King
Note: This story is intended to be listened to. Text associated below is simply a transcript of the audio. I’ve been thinking about human-caused climate change and what it means to be resilient in the face of it. Sometimes we aren’t able to see those changes on the planet, but we do feel the effects. Sometimes, it’s overwhelming to notice those effects, but maybe we don’t know how well we can adapt. Or can we even adapt? Sometimes our impact leaves scars on the land, and sometimes it does not.
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Sep 27, 2024 | 
hcn.org | Ruxandra Guidi
Note: This story is intended to be listened to. Text associated below is simply a transcript of the audio. I’m fascinated by wildlife trail cameras. They haven’t been around that long: They started becoming popular in the 1980s. Then, in the ’90s, they still used 35 mm film. These days, many trail-cam aficionados own three to five cameras, and they nerd out on the footage remotely, from their phones. A few months ago, I found myself in front of a bulky trail cam during a hike on a public trail.
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Sep 25, 2024 | 
truthdig.com | Ruxandra Guidi
The upcoming election may be the most important one of your lifetime. It is no less than a referendum on our climate and our future. It is that serious and urgent. According to a study by the nonprofit Climate Central, large fires that burn 1,000 acres or more have tripled in the Western U.S. between 1970 and 2015. Last year was the warmest on record, a trend that is expected to continue.
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Sep 24, 2024 | 
boulder-monitor.com | Ruxandra Guidi
The upcoming election may be the most important one of your lifetime. It is no less than a referendum on our climate and our future. It is that serious and urgent. According to a study by the nonprofit Climate Central, large fires that burn 1,000 acres or more have tripled in the Western U.S. between 1970 and 2015. Last year was the warmest on record, a trend that is expected to continue.
