• Nature

    American West

    “We’re Not Living Right.” On the Failed Human Efforts to Conquer the Desert

    Kyle Paoletta Explores Language, Survival and Belonging in the American West

     
    By Kyle Paoletta  January 17, 2025
    Mutual Aid

    Here’s How You Can Help Fire-Affected Angelenos

    By Brittany Allen  January 10, 2025
    Agriculture

    Why Did We Start Drinking Milk? On the Ancient Rise of Dairy Consumption

    By Anne Mendelson  January 9, 2025
    Climate Change

    Forest, Forest Burning Bright: On Humans’ Relationship with Trees in an Era of Climate Change

    By Lauren E. Oakes  January 6, 2025
    The Natural World

    Paradise in Progress: On Creating a Natural Refuge in the Blue Ridge Mountains

    By Paula Whyman  January 6, 2025
    Gardening

    Trees of Life and Knowledge: Jamaica Kincaid on Colonialism, Gardening, and Worshipping Her Plants

    By Sandra Guzmán  January 3, 2025
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    Best of 2024

    Lit Hub’s 50 Noteworthy Nonfiction Books of 2024

    By Literary Hub  December 24, 2024
    The Natural World

    In Search of the Perfect Piece of Wood

    By Callum Robinson  December 12, 2024
    Emergence Magazine

    Robin Wall Kimmerer on the Serviceberry

    By Drew Broussard  December 11, 2024
    Wildfires

    The Seven Books I Took With Me When Evacuating Los Angeles

    Carolyn Kellogg on Realizing the Value of the Irreplaceable

    By Carolyn Kellogg  January 15, 2025
    Ecopoetics

    Poems of Power and Our Planet: Six Essential Ecopoetry Collections to Read

    By Dorsía Smith Silva  November 15, 2024
    Emergence Magazine

    Marcia Bjornerud on the Persistence of Past Worlds on Earth

    By Emergence Magazine  November 13, 2024
    Animals

    Witnesses to a Changing World: On the Longevity and Endurance of the Greenland Shark

    By Katherine Rundell  November 12, 2024
    Science Writing

    Memories in the Marsh: A Love Letter to Exploring, Studying, and Creating Art in Nature

    Anna Farro Henderson Reflects on Romance, Distance, and Change as She Studies a Maine Marshland

    By Anna Farro Henderson  November 11, 2024
    Emergence Magazine

    Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee on Time and Timelessness

    By Emergence Magazine  November 7, 2024
    The Natural World

    The Journey of a Sea Bean: In Praise of the Ocean’s Smallest Gifts

    By Sally Huband  November 6, 2024
    Presidential Election 2024

    Rebecca Solnit: We, the People, Can Make a Better Future

    By Rebecca Solnit  November 4, 2024
    The Issues: 2024

    The Issues 2024: The Fight for Climate Justice

    We Can’t Go On Like This

    By Literary Hub  November 1, 2024
    The Issues: 2024

    The 10 Best Books on
    Climate Justice

    By Catherine Habgood  November 1, 2024
    Emergence Magazine

    Jane Hirshfield on Time, Mystery, and Kinship

    By Emergence Magazine  October 31, 2024
    Apocalypses

    “Mike Knew Apocalypses Had Been Coming at Us All Along.” Rebecca Solnit on the Great Mike Davis

    By Rebecca Solnit  October 30, 2024
    Climate Change

    Our Burning Era: Reading George Stewart’s Fire in Fire Season

    Ben Woollard on the Newly Reissued 1948 Novel

    By Ben Woollard  October 29, 2024
    American West

    A Golden Land? Questioning Frontiers, Fantasies and Fulfillment in the Pacific Northwest

    By Rachel Greenley  October 28, 2024
    National Parks

    A Geological Time Bomb: Remembering the Night That Yellowstone Exploded

    By Randall K. Wilson  October 24, 2024
    The Natural World

    Oceans That Glow: On the Timeless Beauty of Bioluminescence

    By Alan Lightman  November 20, 2024
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