I posted this article when it came out last year. I'm happy to say it just won the Los Angeles Press Club Journalism Award for 'solutions journalism' in the health/science category. The issue I tackle is not just central to carbon capture. It's central to much of what's ailing society. Trust. Enjoy “‘Climate Delusion’ Or …
Can Climate Manipulation Save Nature?
The planet looks like it has been badly handled by a fiddling giant. Our sticky fingerprints are all over it. Chemicals, dams, and rats imported in the hulls of ships have reshaped everything under the sun. The recent photos from Artemis II might have shown a familiar blue planet, but zoom in a little closer, …
Our Place Among the Deer
Sarah Aronson is the talented host of Grounding, a podcast on climate change and mental health. I met Sarah eight years ago when she was the anchor of The Write Question, a Montana Public Radio show on books. We had a wonderful conversation about a work on nature and technology I had just published, The …
Where The Buffalo Don’t Roam
The return of a missing species can pay huge ecological dividends for a landscape. But sometimes people bring wildlife back for other reasons. The Kalispel people brought buffalo back to a ranch on their tiny reservation near Usk on the Pend Oreille River in the 1970s. The one-hundred-and-fifty bison live behind fences in a field …
Holmes Rolston, III (1932-2025): A Giant in Environmental Ethics
Holmes Rolston, III, was my mentor for over thirty years. I met him when I moved from England to Colorado for a master’s degree in 1990. A renowned environmental philosopher, Rolston died in early 2025. I made the four-thousand-mile journey for two reasons. First, there was Rolston, the so-called “father of environmental ethics.” He put …
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“Not the Dark Ages”
Science is still doing great things! A few weeks ago, I was thrilled to join Justin Angle and Amy Martin, of the Peabody award-winning podcast Threshold, for a live recording of A New Angle. The event, sponsored by Climate Smart Missoula, was part of Climate Solutions Week. Amy and I talked about some of the …
Christopher J. Preston 