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Experiencing Place in Fiction: On Allowing Your Characters to Get Lost

Experiencing Place in Fiction: On Allowing Your Characters to Get Lost

Lena Valencia on Writing Place Like a Character, Rebecca Solnit, and the American Southwest

By Lena Valencia | August 7, 2024

Those Who Wander: A History of Nomadic Pastoralism in Southeastern Europe

Those Who Wander: A History of Nomadic Pastoralism in Southeastern Europe

Kapka Kassabova Explores What’s Left of an Ancient Tradition Marked by a Century of Upheaval

By Kapka Kassabova | August 7, 2024

Slippery, Slimy and Sublime: On Our Fascination with Eels

Slippery, Slimy and Sublime: On Our Fascination with Eels

Ellen Ruppel Shell Goes Deep on the Cultural Life of the Anguillidae

By Ellen Ruppel Shell | August 5, 2024

Should Humanity Pay the Ultimate Price For Its Crimes Against Nature?

Should Humanity Pay the Ultimate Price For Its Crimes Against Nature?

Todd May Ponders the Prospect and Ethics of Voluntary Human Extinction

By Todd May | August 5, 2024

Jen Hadfield on Annie Dillard’s <em>Pilgrim at Tinker Creek</em>

Jen Hadfield on Annie Dillard’s Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

In Conversation for the Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast

By Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast | July 24, 2024

Chelsea Steinauer-Scudder on Protecting Mauna Kea

Chelsea Steinauer-Scudder on Protecting Mauna Kea

This Week from the Emergence Magazine Podcast

By Emergence Magazine | July 24, 2024

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All Living Creatures: Do Animals Deserve Political Rights and Representation?

By Brandon Keim | July 23, 2024

Seeing Green: Why We Should All Be Paying Attention to Plants

By Klaudia Khan | July 23, 2024

Meet the writers who garden against time.

By Brittany Allen | July 18, 2024

How Japanese-American Scientist Eugenie Clark Spearheaded the Study of Sharks

How Japanese-American Scientist Eugenie Clark Spearheaded the Study of Sharks

Jasmin Graham on the Unsung Contributions of Women of Color to Marine Biology

By Jasmin Graham | July 18, 2024

In Praise of <em> Ginkgo Biloba</em>, China’s Ancient, Everlasting Tree

In Praise of Ginkgo Biloba, China’s Ancient, Everlasting Tree

Amy Stewart Talks to Jianming (Jimmy) Shen, the Ginkgo Chronicler of Hangzhou

By Amy Stewart | July 17, 2024

How the Continual Movement of Wildlife Regulates the Natural World

How the Continual Movement of Wildlife Regulates the Natural World

James Bradley on the Integral Role of Migratory Patterns to Human and Environmental Wellbeing

By James Bradley | July 15, 2024

David James Duncan on <em>Sun House</em>

David James Duncan on Sun House

This Week from the Emergence Magazine Podcast

By Emergence Magazine | July 10, 2024

Olivia Laing on the Care and Keeping of Gardens In an Era of Climate Emergency

Olivia Laing on the Care and Keeping of Gardens In an Era of Climate Emergency

How Green Spaces Form a Key Part of Our Shared Existence

By Olivia Laing | July 8, 2024

How Do We Balance the Needs of the Earth With the Needs of Humanity?

How Do We Balance the Needs of the Earth With the Needs of Humanity?

C.L. Skach Considers the Arbitrary Nature of the Laws That Govern Our Relationship With the Land

By C. L. Skach | July 2, 2024

How White Sharks Became the Serial Killers of the Sea

How White Sharks Became the Serial Killers of the Sea

John Long on the Hunting Tactics of One of Nature's Most Feared Predators

By John Long | July 2, 2024

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