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What Makes the Octopus So Worthy of Our Eternal Fascination

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

Here’s everything that’s making us happy <em> this </em> week.

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

By Brittany Allen | April 18, 2025

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

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

Mark Synnott on the Logistical, Environmental and Emotional Preparations For a Journey Through the Arctic

By Mark Synnott | April 18, 2025

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

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

Bruce Handy on the endlessly fascinating endpaper.

By Brittany Allen | April 17, 2025

Here's everything that's making us happy <em> this </em> week.

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

By Brittany Allen | April 11, 2025

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

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

Ariel Courage Explores a Systematic Legacy of Environmental Contamination and Neglect in the United States

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

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

By Matt Ridley | March 24, 2025

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

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

Alexander Clapp Explores the Dirty History and Lasting Impact of the International Waste Trade

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Robert Macfarlane on the Beauty and Urgency of Nan Shepherd’s <em>The Living Mountain</em>

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

In Praise of the Scottish Author’s Poetic, Universalist Parochialism

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

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

Paul Hawken Merges Science and Indigenous Wisdom on a Heating Planet

By Paul Hawken | March 18, 2025

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

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

Rebecca Worby on Will Stratton’s “Points of Origin”

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

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

A Small Press Book We Love: </br><em>Braiding Sweetgrass</em> by Robin Wall Kimmerer

A Small Press Book We Love:
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From Bowie to Baseball to Bitcoin: Ten Nonfiction Books to Check Out in March

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

Featuring Titles by Russell Shorto, Ben Ratliff, Hannah Selinger, and More

By Literary Hub | February 28, 2025

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