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New Environmental Books: Spring-to-Summer Reads to Brighten and Enlighten https://therevelator.org/environmental-books-june2026/
Nearly half of all stopover sites used by migrating birds in North America fall within urban areas. https://therevelator.org/urban-habitat-migrating-birds/
When the Butterflies Come Home Again by Kathleen Dean Moore
A philosopher shares an environmental success story that speaks to the moral necessity of ongoing work for wild beings. https://therevelator.org/fenders-blue-butterflies/
Wildlife journalist Jason Bittel’s new book is a wild ride (and a love letter) to some of North America’s most misunderstood (and amazing) animals. https://therevelator.org/grizzled/
The Two Words Giving Me Hope — Even As the Trump Administration Dismantles More Climate Regulations https://therevelator.org/despite-trump/
The Great Forgetting -- How memory, civil rights, and environmental history are being quietly erased. #PrideMonth https://therevelator.org/the-great-forgetting/
The Revelator
When the Butterflies Come Home Again
"How do you hold both truths at the same time — the horror and the hope? How can you accept the truth that destroys hope and at the same time hold the hope that may be the only route toward recovery?" @therevelator.org
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Pride is often celebrated as progress.
But progress has a memory.
The Great Forgetting, a new piece in @therevelator.org, examines what happens when civil rights history, environmental history, and the voices behind both are softened, narrowed, or erased.
This Pride Month, memory matters.
Nearly half of all stopover sites used by migrating birds in North America fall within urban areas.Nearly half of all stopover sites used by migrating birds in North America fall within urban areas.
Learn more about the wildly successful Roadless Rule via esteemed WELC Wildlands and Wildlife Program Director Sarah McMillan's op-ed in @therevelator.org here:
Wildlife journalist Jason Bittel’s new book is a wild ride (and a love letter) to some of North America’s most misunderstood (and amazing) animals.
"We live in a time of cosmic tragedy, when heedless human expansion has pushed many of the planet’s lives beyond bearing. As ecosystems unravel, so do the cultures that depend on them..." writes Kathleen Dean Moore for @therevelator.org. ⬇️
Ocean Hoptimism
John R. Platt
Western Environmental Law Center
Whether you decide on a vacation or staycation, plan on finding inspiration in these books about owls, reptiles, climate justice, green gardening, and more.
