http://www.hcn.org These are the search results for the query, showing results 1 to 12. http://www.hcn.org/wotr/what-should-we-do-with-our-blink-of-time Natural history teaches us how rapidly and irrevocably the world can change -- a fact we should bear in mind as we enter the new, human-dominated era some scientists call the Anthropocene. No publisher Stephen Trimble mass extinctions evolution death Anthropocene Mesozoic climate change Pleistocene industrial revolution global warming species extinction pollution geology, paleontology, biodiversity loss, drought, natural resources scientists Natural history Natural History Museum of Utah tectonic cycles Eocene Holocene 2012-05-31T15:19:09Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/43.21/what-is-that-dead-deer-thinking-about-and-why-is-he-hanging-there A close encounter with a deer head on the wall of an inn leads to musings on death, immortality, ancient Egypt, Lenin and Trigger the Wonder Horse. No publisher Andy Seiple Roy Rogers elk death Dale Evans mountain goat Lenin’s Tomb Trigger ancient Egypt Taxidermy deer hunters antler racks mummification pharaohs mortality 2011-12-23T16:04:09Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/wotr/the-end-is-near-the-end-of-2011 People should be less worried about the allegedly dire predictions of the Mayan Calendar, and concentrate on making the next year better, since we’re all on earth for a limited time anyway. No publisher Alan Kesselheim death end of the world climate change doomsday predictions nature Mayan Calendar end times responsible living time apocalypse sustainable living voluntary poverty 2011-11-30T23:42:58Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/43.5/finding-reassurance-in-change-a-review-of-wild-comfort In her new collection of essays, Wild Comfort: The Solace of Nature, Kathleen Dean Moore writes her way to the knowledge that "sorrow is part of the Earth's great cycles." No publisher Chérie Newman death nature writing Wild Comfort: The Solace of Nature grief Kathleen Dean Moore nonfiction Mount St. Helens essays 2011-03-16T20:19:44Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/41.10/natural-comfort It seems romantic to die alone in the wild, until you begin to lose the people you love No publisher Ana Maria Spagna Ana Maria Spagna death families small-town life aging parents hospice 2010-02-05T08:43:49Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/320/16254 All over the West, white roadside crosses and spontaneous, humble shrines mark the holy sites where the souls of human beings have left this world No publisher Brian Doyle Western Culture Brian Doyle roadside crosses shrines highway accidents Kip Kunkel school shootings holiness death birth life mystery prayer holy places 2010-02-05T09:33:36Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/311/15958 Writer and activist Michael Frome looks back on more than 80 years of a life filled concern for the environment and social justice No publisher Michael Frome Human Beings And Nature Michael Frome aging teachers activists memoirs autobiographies environmental movement growing older death muckrakers Lincoln Steffens Gaylord Nelson conservation movement Paul Brooks Rachel Carson Bernard DeVoto Richard Neuberger Wallace 2010-02-05T08:56:05Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/305/15770 A park ranger talks about the increasing practice of mourners scattering the ashes of loved ones outdoors in national parks. No publisher Paul Zaenger Communities Human Beings And Nature Tourism And Recreation Hunter S. Thompson cremation scattering ashes memorials national parks death funerals cremains burial nature 2010-02-05T09:26:12Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/318/16194 The crumbling remains of a man named J. Thomas have a story to tell about life and death in the northern Colorado in the 1870s No publisher Laura Pritchett Western History Western Culture Laura Pritchett mothers and daughters Western history Old West cemeteries graves burial places human remains ranch life northern Colorado death last words Bingham Hill Cemetery cowboys ranchers skeletons 2011-12-15T17:54:11Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/333/16660 Laina Corazon Coit and her brother, Rick Chase, want to create Colorado’s first natural burial ground and wildlife refuge on the eastern prairie No publisher Jennie Lay beetles wildlife refuges prairie Human Beings and Nature death graves Colorado prairie green burial decomposition nat dogs Wildlife coffins natural burial grounds Rick Chase cemeteries caskets funerals gravesite bird sanctuary Laina Corazon Coit Wildlife Refuges bison Pawnee Grasslands 2010-09-22T21:44:26Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/330/16560 The author remembers a long-ago hike up Pikes Pike with her mother, who later died having no memory of that hike, or of her daughter. No publisher Diane Sylvain Human beings and nature mountains death Colorado aging Pikes Peak personal history Diane Sylvain family life Alzheimers stroke victims hikes autobiography old age memory memory impairment dementia mother-daughter issues memoir June Sylvain women 2010-10-26T22:46:15Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/354/17242 A woman and her son say their final goodbyes to a friend who committed suicide. No publisher Kathleen Dean cremation suicide mourning grief death Kathleen Dean Moore young people 2010-08-26T22:41:19Z News Article