• Nature

    Birds

    “We are Here.” On Rediscovering Safety and Beauty in the Wonders of Nature

    Aimee Nezhukumatathil Considers the South Philippine Dwarf Kingfisher

     
    By Aimee Nezhukumatathil  April 22, 2024
    Aliens?

    Earth? Really? On Why Aliens Would Probably Skip Visiting Our Planet

    By Lisa Kaltenegger  April 16, 2024
    Nature Writing

    What Do You Get When You Cross the Contemporary Novel with Nature Writing?

    By Fiona Williams  April 10, 2024
    Emergence Magazine

    Susan Murphy Roshi on Earth as Koan

    By Emergence Magazine  April 3, 2024
    Eco-Memoir

    Earth, Head, and Heart: Six Deeply Researched Eco-Memoirs

    By Greg Wrenn  March 27, 2024
    Emergence Magazine

    Jenny Odell on Reading the Rocks

    By Emergence Magazine  March 27, 2024
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    Emergence Magazine

    Lily Kelting on Holy Terroir

    By Emergence Magazine  March 20, 2024
    Animals

    “She’s Bouncing the Ball!” On the Uncanny Way Octopuses Play

    By David Toomey  March 18, 2024
    Nature Writing

    “So Boundless an Affluence of Sublime Mountain Beauty…” When John Muir First Encountered Yosemite

    By Dean King  March 14, 2024
    Read Smart

    Read Smart on Gardens Past and Present

    In Conversation with Razia Iqbal on the Baillie Gifford Prize Podcast, Read Smart

    By Read Smart  April 22, 2024
    Climate Crisis

    The Birds of Northern Manhattan: On Vanishing Human and Non-Human Habitats

    By Emily Raboteau  March 13, 2024
    Emergence Magazine

    Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee is Enraptured with Earth

    By Emergence Magazine  March 13, 2024
    American West

    Lost Boys: On a Hidden Fraternity of the Forsaken in the American West

    By Judith Freeman and Jim Mangan  March 4, 2024
    Creative Nonfiction

    The Crooked Timber of the Mind: On the Rise of “Autojournalism”

    Robert Moor Reads Matthew J.C. Clark’s “Bjarki, Not Bjarki”

    By Robert Moor  February 27, 2024
    Birds

    Avian Teachers: On What We Can Learn from Birds

    By Trish O'Kane  February 27, 2024
    Sharks

    The Ever-Present Unseeable Terror: On Millennia of Human-Shark Relations

    By Tim Flannery and Emma Flannery  February 23, 2024
    Animals

    In Search of the Elusive, Eternal Otter

    By Miriam Darlington  February 21, 2024
    Emergence Magazine

    Tyson Yunkaporta on Deep Time Diligence

    This Week from the Emergence Magazine Podcast

    By Emergence Magazine  February 21, 2024
    Emergence Magazine

    Mycelial Landscapes with Merlin Sheldrake and Barney Steel

    By Emergence Magazine  February 14, 2024
    Emergence Magazine

    Elizabeth Rush on the Thwaites Glacier

    By Emergence Magazine  February 8, 2024
    Natural History

    How an Icelandic Bird Led to the Discovery of Human-Caused Extinction

    By Gísli Pálsson  February 7, 2024
    Myths and Legends

    Why We Anthropomorphize Animals (and Always Have)

    Hana Videen on the Origins of the Bestiary and Its Role in the Medieval Imagination

    By Hana Videen  February 6, 2024
    The Craft of Writing

    Rick Bass on What Hunting Taught Hemingway About Writing

    By Rick Bass  February 2, 2024
    Emergence Magazine

    Seeds of Reciprocity

    By Emergence Magazine  January 31, 2024
    Natural History

    Secrets in Amber: How Trees Help Preserve Essential Prehistory

    By Daniel Lewis  March 14, 2024
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