Nature

News and Culture

Riverbankhungrydeerwillow: How We Give Names to Nature

Marc Peter Keane Looks at Natural Lineage of Language

 
By Marc Peter Keane  May 20, 2022
Mysteries

A Mysterious Canoe, a Flip Phone, and a Lot of Unanswered Questions

By Ben McGrath  May 16, 2022
Emergence Magazine

Singer Sam Lee on the Transformative Experience of Creating Songs in Collaboration With Nightingales

By Emergence Magazine  May 16, 2022
Climate Politics

“This place has always had my heart.” On the Complicated Climate Politics of Rural America

By Chloe Maxmin and Canyon Woodward  May 13, 2022
True Crime

On the Trail of the Shenandoah Murders at the American Investigative Society of Cold Cases

By Kathryn Miles  May 12, 2022
Open Letters

A Letter from Eileen Myles to Save East River Park

By Eileen Myles  May 12, 2022
Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
Poetry

“To Learn From the Natural World.” On Ada Limón’s Brilliant Poetic Project

By Sara B. Franklin  May 10, 2022
Anthropocene

The Dust of Ancient Suns: Making Art and Meaning From the Depths of Deep Time

By David Farrier  May 6, 2022
Keen On

How Hawks Teach Us a Different Way to Love

By Keen On  May 3, 2022
The Writing Life

What Do Writing a Novel and Tending a Garden Have in Common?

Naheed Phiroze Patel on the Life-Long Projects of Writing and Gardening

By Naheed Phiroze Patel  May 18, 2022
Animals

What Animals Can Show Us About More Meaningfully Encountering the Wider World

By Sy Montgomery  May 2, 2022
Emergence Magazine

Robin Wall Kimmerer on What Mosses Can Teach Us About Persisting Amid Climate Change

By Emergence Magazine  May 2, 2022
Family Stories

“This Was My Mother’s Nature.” A Trip to Yellowstone, in the Wake of an Alzheimer’s Diagnosis

By Steph Jagger  April 27, 2022
Dinosaurs

How the Disappearance of the Dinosaurs Created an Hospitable World for Humans

Riley Black on the Causes and Consequences of the Great Extinction

By Riley Black  April 26, 2022
Walking

Lost: Joanna Kavenna on Walking the Grande Randonnée

By Joanna Kavenna  April 25, 2022
Climate Change

Hope for Planet Earth: The Citizen’s Guide to Climate Change

By Literary Hub  April 22, 2022
Climate Change

From Individual Action to Global Awareness: How to Save the Planet

By Literary Hub  April 22, 2022
Climate Change

What Passes for Hope: 19 Writers on Finding Meaning in the Face of the Climate Crisis

“Is there still work to be done? Is there still a world to love? The answer to both of these questions is yes.”

By Literary Hub  April 22, 2022
Language

Why This Era of Global Change Demands New Language

By Audrey Schulman  April 21, 2022
Thresholds

N. Scott Momaday on Landscape, Emily Dickinson, and the Fellowship That Changed His Life

By Thresholds   April 20, 2022
Behind the Mic

Saving Yellowstone by Megan Kate Nelson, Read by Cynthia Farrell

By Behind the Mic   April 20, 2022
Walking

Seeking Respite in Landscape: On Following Henry David Thoreau’s Walks

Ben Shattuck Traces the Beginnings of a Journey

By Ben Shattuck  April 19, 2022
Keen On

Should We Relish a “Post-Human” Future in Which We Will Be Able to Fully Empathize with the Natural World?

By Keen On  April 19, 2022
Emergence Magazine

Watering the Dead and the Unseen: Sumana Roy on Vanishing Nature

By Emergence Magazine  April 18, 2022
On Grief

A Quiet Reply to a Life Cut Short: After a Profound Loss, How to Honor the Dead

By Elisha Cooper  May 2, 2022
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