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Field notes from the wild

Molly Helfend
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Field notes from wild places, where ecology, plant knowledge, travel, and the human psyche meet.

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Before you call iboga a psychedelic

I have news.

I’m reporting with States of Mind, a new media company covering psychedelics, and my first story with them is live this week. It’s an exclusive from Gabon, and it has not run anywhere else.

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11 days ago
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Posting online won't save the glacier

Quick side quest here from my Gabon reporting…

On August 26, a glacier collapsed off Langtang Lirung, one of the high peaks northeast of Kathmandu, and sent a wall of ice, rock and water down the valley toward the Nepal-China border. It bu...

23 days ago
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"Now, it is not the devil"

This is the first article from my Pulitzer reporting in Gabon. I’ve been reporting the iboga story from every side: the economics and benefit-sharing fights for Mongabay and the Guardian, the elephants and the forest for National Geographic...

a month ago
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The stories I can, and cannot, tell from Gabon.

The first place Gabon put me was a plastic chair at border control in Libreville. I was hungover-feeling in the morning light, with no local cash, no French translation, and an officer who had no intention of waving me through until I produ...

2 months ago
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The healthier I got, the less I packed

Two years ago, I packed for Angola. The assignment fell through, so the bag never left my house, but I remember what was in it. Backups for the backups. A small mobile apothecary. Powders, tinctures, protocols, contingencies for my continge...

2 months ago
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    Journalist, ecopsychologist, and ethnobotanist reporting from the field on the science of remembering we are nature, while sharing ecological knowledge through earth, story, and adventurous travel.

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