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The Everest climbing season has just begun and there are already several deaths. The overcrowding of recent years is becoming highly dangerous. This overcrowding is preventing those who have reached the summit from descending. Climbers share the same route up and down. A high volume of climbers can create bottlenecks, especially in the death zone where thin air & extreme cold already make climbing dangerous. Getting stuck in a bottleneck increases the risk of altitude sickness, exhaust...

A critical opinion piece about the unfolding conflict in the Ukraine. Written in 1915, when the Polish-born, Jewish revolutionary was imprisoned for her anti-war agitation, Rosa Luxemburg’s Junius Pamphlet, or The Crisis of Social Democracy, is one of the most powerful indictments of World War I and the bourgeois society that produced it ever published. Over 100 years since her assassination by the German Freikorps in 1919, Luxemburg’s words against war seem eerily appropriate today. She cond...

One morning in 2009, I sat on a creaky bus winding its way up a mountainside in central Costa Rica, light-headed from diesel fumes as I clutched my many suitcases. They contained thousands of test tubes and sample vials, a toothbrush, a waterproof notebook and two changes of clothes. I was on my way to La Selva Biological Station, where I was to spend several months studying the wet, lowland rainforest’s response to increasingly common droughts. On either side of the narrow highway, trees bled ...