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Why Cities Are Teeming With Exotic Wildlife More Than Ever

Why Cities Are Teeming With Exotic Wildlife More Than Ever

From Coyotes to Turkeys: Animals Finding Sanctuary in the Urban Jungle

By Menno Schilthuizen | March 30, 2018

How Polar Explorer Ernest Shackleton Became an International Celebrity

How Polar Explorer Ernest Shackleton Became an International Celebrity

Glorifying Disaster in the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration

By Edward J. Larson | March 16, 2018

Did Thoreau Actually Live on Walden Pond?

Did Thoreau Actually Live on Walden Pond?

"A Lake is the Landscape’s Most Beautiful and Expressive Feature"

By Robert Thorson | March 12, 2018

Wilder Things: Modern Life Among the Foxes and Coyotes

Wilder Things: Modern Life Among the Foxes and Coyotes

From London to Arlington, Investigating the Urban Wilderness

By Aminatta Forna | March 6, 2018

It's Not Easy Running a Retirement Home for Old Dancing Bears

It's Not Easy Running a Retirement Home for Old Dancing Bears

Small-Town Bulgarians Wonder Why the Bears Get Strawberries

By witoldszablowski | March 6, 2018

The Horse: Beloved Metaphor of Your Favorite 19th-Century Novelists

The Horse: Beloved Metaphor of Your Favorite 19th-Century Novelists

How One Animal Came to Symbolize Love and Broken Marriages

By Ulrich Raulff | February 12, 2018

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Appalachia Isn't the Reason We're Living in Trump Country

By Elizabeth Catte | February 8, 2018

In Awe of Seabirds at the Edge of the World

By Adam Nicolson | February 7, 2018

How to Read Caves

By Susan Harlan | January 19, 2018

The Half-Wild Muse: On Writers and Their Cats

The Half-Wild Muse: On Writers and Their Cats

Cats Are Kindred Spirits: Observers, Introverts, Always Practicing Their Craft

By Tim Weed | January 10, 2018

Why Do We Fear Wolves?

Why Do We Fear Wolves?

Throughout History, They've Been Made to Answer for the Sins of Men

By Erica Berry | December 12, 2017

Can an Artist Help Captive Elephants Win Legal Personhood?

Can an Artist Help Captive Elephants Win Legal Personhood?

On Photographer Colleen Plumb's Collaboration with the Nonhuman Rights Project

By Julia Cooke | December 5, 2017

Laura Ingalls Wilder and One of The Greatest Natural Disasters in American History

Laura Ingalls Wilder and One of The Greatest Natural Disasters in American History

When a Trillion Locusts Ate Everything in Sight

By Caroline Fraser | December 5, 2017

Spare Us Your Elegies: Who Will Advocate for West Virginia?

Spare Us Your Elegies: Who Will Advocate for West Virginia?

There Can Be No Improvement Without a Viable Political Identity

By Steven Stoll | December 4, 2017

A Fleeting Resource: In Praise of the Deep Cold

A Fleeting Resource: In Praise of the Deep Cold

Miranda Weiss on Moving to Alaska, and Choosing to Stay There

By Miranda Weiss | December 4, 2017

Love and Death at the Library with the Astro Poets

Love and Death at the Library with the Astro Poets

"I had that nervous date feeling, like you were all a giant Earth sign”

By Kyle Lucia Wu | December 1, 2017

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