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Topic: wilderness

Earth as viewed from Mars surface, concept (Getty Images/Nzoka John)

Should we keep outer space "wild?"

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Dense coastal redwood Sequoia sempervirens forest in Redwood National Park California showing fallen tree that has become a nurse log for new plant growth, Redwood National Park in northern California near Eureka California. (Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Conservation potential of roadless areas

Tara Lohan - The Revelator
Bleached coral on the Great Barrier Reef outside Cairns Australia during a mass bleaching event, thought to have been caused by heat stress due to warmer water temperatures as a result of global climate change. (Getty Images/Brett Monroe Garner)

The next major extinction event is here

Matthew Rozsa

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John Waters' adult summer camp

Jason Stormer
Jason Chaffetz; Lars Larson (Getty/Win McNamee/Wikimedia)

GOP's weird land war

Amanda Marcotte
(National Park Service, Instagram)

Lindsay Abrams
(AP/Ted S. Warren)

Oysters tore liberals apart

Lindsay Abrams
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(Mario Hagen/Shutterstock)

Earth's dwindling forests

Lindsay Abrams
Missy Peregrym in "Backcountry" (IFC)

Emasculation in the wild

Andrew O'Hehir
Knight, Hermit of the North Pond (AP)

Natasha Lennard
(Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)

Lindsay Abrams
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This sleek chocolate-colores "cocoa" frog (Hypsiboas sp.) may be new to science (Stuart V Nielsen/Conservation International)

Lindsay Abrams
Booking photo of Christopher Knight, arrested Thursday, April 4, 2013, while stealing food from a camp in Rome, Maine. (AP/Kennebec County Sheriff's Office)

Natasha Lennard
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