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

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

By Brittany Allen | April 4, 2025

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

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

Thor Hanson on the Joys of Slowing Down and Discovering the Unknown In the Familiar

By Thor Hanson | April 3, 2025

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

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

Matt Ridley on the Paradoxical Pickiness of the Black Grouse

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

By Alexander Clapp | March 21, 2025

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

By Robert Macfarlane | March 19, 2025

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

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

By Rebecca Worby | March 7, 2025

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

By Nick Thorpe | March 7, 2025

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By Jonny Diamond | March 4, 2025

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

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

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

Riley Black Chronicles Migratory Patterns and Seasonal Cycles in a World Before Humans

By Riley Black | February 24, 2025

WG Sebald’s <em>Rings of Saturn</em> Might Be the Perfect Climate Change Novel

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

Arctic Rush: Inside the 19th-Century Craze to Reach the North Pole

Arctic Rush: Inside the 19th-Century Craze to Reach the North Pole

Erling Kagge on the Early Years of Polar Exploration and the Timeless Phenomenon of Human Hubris

By Erling Kagge | February 13, 2025

Following Flaco the Owl: In Praise of Writing Into Our Obsessions

Following Flaco the Owl: In Praise of Writing Into Our Obsessions

David Gessner: “If we are very lucky, we find that the thing we have picked up is hitched to everything else in the universe.”

By David Gessner | February 10, 2025

The first issue of Reader’s Digest from 1922 is both shocking and relevant.

The first issue of Reader’s Digest from 1922 is both shocking and relevant.

By James Folta | February 7, 2025

Lauren Markham on the Use and Limitations of Language to Describe Disaster

Lauren Markham on the Use and Limitations of Language to Describe Disaster

Sarah Viren Talks to the Author of “Immemorial”

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