• Nature

    Wildfires

    Rick Bass on Salvaging America’s Forest Arks Against the Coming Fire

    By Rick Bass  October 15, 2020
    Birds

    The Accidental Hobby: On the Books That Made Me a Birder

    By Julia Zarankin  October 14, 2020
    Nature

    On the Nature Poetics of the Great Nan Shepherd, Bard of the Highlands

    By Kerri Andrews  October 7, 2020
    Life in a Pandemic

    What a Video Game Can Teach Us About Getting Through a Pandemic

    By Anna Weltman  October 2, 2020
    Poem

    “Winter Moth”

    By Dan Chiasson  October 1, 2020
    Animals

    All Hail the Beaver, Mighty Linchpin of the Natural World

    By Derek Gow and Ben Goldfarb  September 30, 2020
    On Translation

    How an Italian Translator Found an Unlikely Home in the Utah Desert

    By Sara Reggiani  September 30, 2020
    Best Reviewed Books of the Month

    The Best Reviewed Science, Technology, and Nature Books, September Edition

    By Book Marks  September 30, 2020
    Myth

    Why Did Renaissance Europeans See Merpeople Everywhere?

    By Vaughn Scribner  September 28, 2020
    Inspiration

    The Book That Changed My Life: Giving Voice to the Divine, Inexplicable Ocean

    By Jock Serong  September 24, 2020
    The Natural World

    On Planting Seeds, Excavating Language, and the Politics
    of Place

    By Literary Hub  September 23, 2020
    Nature

    On Land Ethics and One of the Last Heaths in Northern Europe

    By Robert Michael Pyle  September 18, 2020
    Sports

    Spending a Night Alone in Mount Everest’s Death Zone

    By Jennifer Hull  September 16, 2020
    Keen On

    When a Libertarian Experiment Backfires

    By Keen On  September 15, 2020
    Animals

    When in Doubt, Smile Like
    an Axolotl

    By Aimee Nezhukumatathil  September 11, 2020
    The Hub

    Christian Cooper wrote a graphic novel about birding, and you can read it online for free.

    By Corinne Segal  September 10, 2020
    Climate Change

    Writing in the Edgelands: A Conversation Between Kerri Arsenault and
    Elizabeth Rush

    By Kerri Arsenault  September 8, 2020
    Underreported

    It Turns Out Fracking Doesn’t Even Make That Much Money

    By Underreported with Nicholas Lemann  September 8, 2020
    Climate Crisis Readings

    Inclusivity, Sustainability, and… Disaster? Your Climate Readings for September

    By Amy Brady  September 2, 2020
    Gardening

    We Have Ancient Greece to Thank For Contemporary Gardens

    By Penelope Hobhouse  August 31, 2020
    Emergence Magazine

    Lia Purpura on Decomposing Deer and the Forces of Restoration

    By Emergence Magazine  August 31, 2020
    The Natural World

    Lake Michigan Thinks It’s
    Still an Ocean

    By Jill Sisson Quinn  August 28, 2020
    Poetry

    Prayer to the Redwood

    By Mai Der Vang  August 28, 2020
    The Hub

    Do we really need another book about Henry David Thoreau?

    By Jonny Diamond  August 25, 2020
    Nature Writing

    Helen Macdonald: The Things I Tell Myself When I’m Writing About Nature

    By Helen Macdonald  August 25, 2020
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