• Nature

    The Hub

    Here are a few things that are getting us through the week.

     
    By Brittany Allen  April 4, 2025
    Birds

    What the Mysterious Mating Habits of an Enigmatic Species Reveal About the Secrets of Evolution

    By Matt Ridley  March 24, 2025
    Environmentalism

    A Toxic Business: On America’s Practice of Shipping Its Trash to the Global South

    By Alexander Clapp  March 21, 2025
    Nature Writing

    Robert Macfarlane on the Beauty and Urgency of Nan Shepherd’s The Living Mountain

    By Robert Macfarlane  March 19, 2025
    Natural History

    Dissolving Certainties: On Reading the Complex Story of Carbon in Our World

    By Paul Hawken  March 18, 2025
    Wildfires

    The Best Story Collection About California Wildfires Isn’t a Book—It’s a Brand-New Record 

    By Rebecca Worby  March 7, 2025
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    European History

    Groaning Under the Weight of History: Inside the Natural and Political Landscape of the Carpathian Mountains

    By Nick Thorpe  March 7, 2025
    The Hub

    A Small Press Book We Love:
    Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer

    By Jonny Diamond  March 4, 2025
    Nonfiction

    From Bowie to Baseball to Bitcoin: Ten Nonfiction Books to Check Out in March

    By Literary Hub  February 28, 2025
    The Natural World

    The Forest For the Trees: How “Backyard Biology” Can Lead to Scientific Breakthroughs

    Thor Hanson on the Joys of Slowing Down and Discovering the Unknown In the Familiar

    By Thor Hanson  April 3, 2025
    Climate Fiction

    WG Sebald’s Rings of Saturn Might Be the Perfect Climate Change Novel

    By Madeleine Watts  February 20, 2025
    The Arctic

    Arctic Rush: Inside the 19th-Century Craze to Reach the North Pole

    By Erling Kagge  February 13, 2025
    Nature Writing

    Following Flaco the Owl: In Praise of Writing Into Our Obsessions

    By David Gessner  February 10, 2025
    The Hub

    The first issue of Reader’s Digest from 1922 is both shocking and relevant.

    By James Folta  February 7, 2025
    Writers in Conversation

    Lauren Markham on the Use and Limitations of Language to Describe Disaster

    By Sarah Viren  February 7, 2025
    Ethics

    Will Humanity Ever Fully Include the Nonhuman World in Its Moral Circle?

    By Jeff Sebo  January 29, 2025
    Pets

    What We Can Learn From a Dog’s Way of Looking At the World

    By Mark Rowlands  January 28, 2025
    American West

    “We’re Not Living Right.” On the Failed Human Efforts to Conquer the Desert

    Kyle Paoletta Explores Language, Survival and Belonging in the American West

    By Kyle Paoletta  January 17, 2025
    Wildfires

    The Seven Books I Took With Me When Evacuating Los Angeles

    By Carolyn Kellogg  January 15, 2025
    Mutual Aid

    Here’s How You Can Help Fire-Affected Angelenos

    By Brittany Allen  January 10, 2025
    Agriculture

    Why Did We Start Drinking Milk? On the Ancient Rise of Dairy Consumption

    By Anne Mendelson  January 9, 2025
    Climate Change

    Forest, Forest Burning Bright: On Humans’ Relationship with Trees in an Era of Climate Change

    Lauren E. Oakes Examines the Global Disequilibrium We’ve Created

    By Lauren E. Oakes  January 6, 2025
    The Natural World

    Paradise in Progress: On Creating a Natural Refuge in the Blue Ridge Mountains

    By Paula Whyman  January 6, 2025
    Gardening

    Trees of Life and Knowledge: Jamaica Kincaid on Colonialism, Gardening, and Worshipping Her Plants

    By Sandra Guzmán  January 3, 2025
    The Natural World

    Winter is Coming: The Changing of the Seasons Through a Mastodon’s Eyes

    By Riley Black  February 24, 2025
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