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Ectomycorrhizal fungi

The Fungi in the Carbon Jigsaw

Out of sight, below the soil’s surface, fungi play a vital role in the existence and health of our forests, woodlands, jungles, and prairies.

Unearthing Justice

Eco friendly cleaning products

Toxic? But It Has a Leaf on the Label!

Is it possible to produce common household products that are sustainable and safe?

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A Game of Words from JSTOR Daily

Test yourself against Cross Reference, our monthly crossword puzzle!

Archive Adventures

Graffiti Limbo

A University of Virginia professor enlisted students to document the messages—profane, hopeful, despairing—left on library carrels by previous generations.

JSTOR Collections

A series of posters created by the American Forces Information Service (AFIS)

Life Advice From the Armed Forces

These American Forces Information Service posters shared via JSTOR by The University of Alabama in Huntsville offer us the wisdom we didn’t know we needed.

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Being Trans in India

Trans women are organizing to fight discrimination and oppression. Trans men face different problems because they’re often not recognized at all.
Aerial view of Malabo´s harbour, Malabo´s Island, Equatorial Guinea

Grappling with Equatorial Guinea

A brief history of Africa’s most brutal dictator and what his legacy means for Equatorial Guinea today.

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Unearthing Justice

Eco friendly cleaning products

Toxic? But It Has a Leaf on the Label!

Is it possible to produce common household products that are sustainable and safe?

Cross Reference

Cross Reference image

A Game of Words from JSTOR Daily

Test yourself against Cross Reference, our monthly crossword puzzle!

Archive Adventures

Graffiti Limbo

A University of Virginia professor enlisted students to document the messages—profane, hopeful, despairing—left on library carrels by previous generations.

JSTOR Collections

A series of posters created by the American Forces Information Service (AFIS)

Life Advice From the Armed Forces

These American Forces Information Service posters shared via JSTOR by The University of Alabama in Huntsville offer us the wisdom we didn’t know we needed.

Long Reads

Iran: Creativity in the Aftermath of Uprising

Pamela Karimi’s new book examines how Iran’s “Women, Art, Freedom” protest movement has influenced the country’s artists and their work.
A boarding house in Lowell, MA

Lowell’s Forgotten House Mothers

As vital to the success of industrial New England as the mill girls who toiled in the factories were the women who oversaw their lodging.
An illustration of a UFO

Far Out: Why Don’t We Believe in UFOs?

Is it scientific impossibility or simply human ego that stops us from entertaining the idea of extraterrestrial visitation?
Joseph Russell Smith

He Spoke for the Trees (and Also the Soil)

A champion of agroforestry, J. Russell Smith argued for the restoration of forests as key to sustainable agriculture in his seminal work Tree Crops.

The impoundment was seen as a violation of the Congressional “power of the purse,” one granted to Congress by Article 1, Section 9, Clause 7 of the Constitution.

The Power of the Purse

Harmattan wind in Senegal

West Africa’s Hazardous Winds

Harmattan carries more than dust—it also spreads disease.
Sturgeon

Atlantic Sturgeon Were Fished Almost to Extinction

Ancient DNA reveals how the Chesapeake Bay population changed over centuries.
Sugar maple (Acer saccharum) in The North American Sylva by François André Michaux. Illustration by Henri-Joseph Redouté, 1819.

Tradition in Turmoil: Sugar Maple and Climate Change

With harvests dependent on the spring freeze-thaw cycle, the maple industry is seeking ways to mitigate damage wrought by a changing climate.