• Nature

    Corruption

    From Lagos to Calgary the Resource Curse Condemns Nations to Corruption and Autocracy

    Don Gillmor Explores the Economic, Political and Environmental Impact of Our Addiction to Oil

     
    By Don Gillmor  April 25, 2025
    The Hub

    Here’s everything that’s making us happy this week.

    By Brittany Allen  April 18, 2025
    The Arctic

    Before It’s Too Late: Crossing the Northwest Passage in the Era of Climate Change

    By Mark Synnott  April 18, 2025
    Children's Book Art

    Inside a New Exhibit That Celebrates the Most Unappreciated Part of Children’s Books.

    By Brittany Allen  April 17, 2025
    The Hub

    Here’s everything that’s making us happy this week.

    By Brittany Allen  April 11, 2025
    Pollution

    Our Superfunds, Ourselves: Inside America’s Polluted Urban Ruins

    By Ariel Courage  April 10, 2025
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    The Hub

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

    By Brittany Allen  April 4, 2025
    The Natural World

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

    By Thor Hanson  April 3, 2025
    Birds

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

    By Matt Ridley  March 24, 2025
    Animals

    What Makes the Octopus So Worthy of Our Eternal Fascination

    Drew Harvell Explores the Otherworldly Oceanic Lives of Cephalopods

    By Drew Harvell  April 22, 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
    European History

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

    Nick Thorpe Explores the Intersections of Geography and Culture in Central and Eastern Europe

    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

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

    By Riley Black  February 24, 2025
    Climate Fiction

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

    Madeleine Watts’s on the Prescient Genius of a Hard-to-Categorize 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

    Sarah Viren Talks to the Author of “Immemorial”

    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
    Environmentalism

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

    By Alexander Clapp  March 21, 2025
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