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Biruté Mary Galdikas has quietly fought on the frontlines of some of conservation’s biggest battles. 

The gender politics of attempting to right a historic wrong.

Rosa Slade Gragg wouldn’t let a racist restrictive covenant stand in the way of the Detroit Association of Colored Women’s Clubs.

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The Roosevelt Island artwork pays homage to her reporting, especially her inside look at a city asylum.

To save her native Maya bees and their shrinking forests, Leydy Pech waged a fierce campaign on multiple fronts.

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Biologist Serra Hoagland bridges Indigenous traditions and modern methods.

From German witches to vampiric Malaysian spirits to a real-life poisoner.

This African history is often omitted from textbooks.

For many Crockettes, the job was glamorous, fulfilling, and "almost subversive."

Georgina Mace helped change the way both scientists and policymakers see living things, including the most vulnerable.

An hour's drive from central Lima, locals hope to preserve Huaycán's glorious past and improve their own future.

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You don't save agricultural traditions without swapping some seeds.

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The record-setting 19th-century adventure was the result of a bet.

In his debut book, 'Taste Makers,' Mayukh Sen wants us to radically rethink culinary history.