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"Remote Utah Landscape Becomes a Conservation Battleground" is from the March 12 2016, US section of The New York Times. It was written by Jack Healy and narrated by Barbara Benjamin-Creel.

"When Art Conservation Means Repairing TVs, Not Canvases" is from the December 23, 2016 Technology section of The New York Times. It was written by Jaime Joyce and narrated by Corey M. Snow.

A paradigm shift is roiling the environmental world. For decades people have unquestioningly accepted the idea that our goal is to preserve nature in its pristine, pre-human state. But many scientists have come to see this as an outdated dream that thwarts bold new plans to save the environment and prevents us from having a fuller relationship with nature. Humans have changed the landscapes they inhabit since prehistory, and climate change means even the remotest places now bear the fingerprints of humanity.

How serious are the threats to our environment? Here is one measure of the problem: if we continue to do exactly what we are doing, with no growth in the human population or the world economy, the world in the latter part of this century will be unfit to live in. Of course human activities are not holding at current levels—they are accelerating, dramatically—and so, too, is the pace of climate disruption, biotic impoverishment, and toxification.