A ‘grandpa’ desert keystone species has seen more than you have.
Ruxandra Guidi
Ruxandra Guidi is a correspondent for High Country News. She writes from Tucson, Arizona. Follow her on Instagram: @ruxguidi
Posted inJanuary 2025: The West's Most Wanted
Lo que un antiguo saguaro puede enseñarnos
Un ‘abuelo’ del desierto que ha visto mucho más que tú
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Audio: How nature can thrive despite human impact
What disturbance-loving plants teach.
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Audio: What do we really learn from trail cams?
Documenting wildlife can bring us back to nature.
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The absolute urgency of voting with the climate in mind
Though it’s been urgent for years.
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Can words help us out of climate despair and toward repair?
How naming the climate struggle matters.
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Audio: What’s so funny about climate change?
Resorting to absurdity can make people care.
Posted inJune 2024: The Idea of Wilderness
What if the future is the past?
Degrowth offers a path for dealing with our serious environmental issues.
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Audio: The Joshua tree-yucca moth link
These desert species wouldn’t survive without the other. Can they weather climate change together?
Posted inApril 2024: Epic Journeys
Youth are leading the way on climate action
Start thinking like young people to secure our future.
Posted inJanuary 1, 2024: January 2024
Defending the Tijuana Estuary
Stewardship saved a Southern California estuary from development. Climate change is the next challenge.
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We need to reframe our thinking about what’s wild
Why we should take a look from wildlife’s perspectives.
Posted inSeptember 1, 2023: Food Justice
We don’t need utopias
What if Eden is chilling out in your neighborhood?
Posted inMay 1, 2023: Reemergence
The spirit of the Rillito
‘New animism’ seeks a connection to nature’s pulse.
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(Not) one nation, under God
To truly become a more equal society, look to our youth, the ‘nones.’
Posted inMay 1, 2022: New Ways of Seeing the West
The lion king of Los Angeles
After Miguel Ordeñana discovered mountain lion P-22 in urban LA, he became a key advocate for habitat connectivity, which is essential for the species’ survival in Southern California.