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Ospreys in the Chesapeake Bay Are Starving to Death at Disastrous Rates. What Will It Take to Save Them?

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By David Gessner
| Audubon Verified
It is one of the great dramatic sights in nature: to see an Osprey hunt. To watch a long-winged raptor hover like a kingfisher high above the water, eyes on its prey, before committing and plunging downward at more than 40 miles an hour and then, at the last second, throw its wings back and talons forward, striking feet-first. As it lifts off the water with a thrust of exertion, it adjusts the slippery, squirming fish in its grasp, shaking off silver flecks of spray.
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On the Trail of Jeremiah

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By David Gessner
| The American Scholar Verified
EXT. WASATCH MOUNTAINS—AFTERNOON THREE MEN stand huddled together in deep snow, beneath a great wall of mountains. Blue sky overhead, mountains a blinding white. The men are discussing something we can’t hear. One of the men wears a beard and a long fur coat, almost like a pelt, a costume from another time. The two other men walk over to a HELICOPTER and climb in. The bearded man stays behind. The helicopter starts up with a noise like a giant lawnmower, the blades blowing great clouds of snow.
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Spring 2026 - The American Scholar

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By David Gessner, Elizabeth D. Samet, Adam Hochschild
| The American Scholar Verified
Historians in the Ukrainian city of Lviv are documenting the horrors of the past while living in the shadow of war
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