Phoebe Weston | Guardian | 28th April 2025 Hostility to human migrants impacts animals too. Border barriers split migratory populations, causing "genetic bottlenecks", inbreeding and habitat deterioration. The wall on the Poland-Belarus border separated the lynx population that lives in that ancient forest. Pygmy owls can't fly high enough to get over the US-Mexico border wall. Red deer still don't cross the former iron curtain line in Germany (1,400 words)
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Sam Kahn | Castalia | 15th May 2025 Intriguingly optimistic "state of journalism" survey. Yes, the old model of reporting is almost gone. But that doesn't have to be the end of the story. "'Journalism' doesn’t have to mean a boring, detached, clinical, telegraphic, faux-lab-coat-wearing style. Journalism can just be a curiosity about the world — an interest in talking to different kinds of people, in finding creativity within the non-fictional" (3,400 words)
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