• Nature

    Gardening

    Frances Hodgson Burnett Really Loved Gardens—Even Secret Ones

    By Marta McDowell  September 29, 2021
    Forests

    How Can Natural Soundscapes Provide a Refuge from Our Hyper-Stimulated World?

    By Bernie Krause  September 28, 2021
    Gardening

    How to Help the Environment—and Yourself—by Fostering Insect-Friendly Habitats

    By Dave Goulson  September 28, 2021
    Climate Crisis

    Saving Our Trees, Saving Our Animals

    By Dr. Kinari Webb  September 28, 2021
    Climate Crisis

    The End of the Idea of Island: On the Extinction of True Isolation

    By Jill Stoner  September 27, 2021
    Evolution

    We Owe Our Entire Existence to a Bunch of Long-Necked Mouth-Breathers

    By Elsa Panciroli  September 27, 2021
    Emergence Magazine

    Bathsheba Demuth on the Changing Landscapes of the Arctic Circle

    By Emergence Magazine  September 27, 2021
    Climate Crisis

    Ancient Pathways Between Species Are Disappearing—Fast

    By Paul Hawken  September 24, 2021
    Keen On

    Giulio Boccaletti on How Water Shapes Society

    By Keen On  September 15, 2021
    Science Writing

    Mary Roach on Finding What’s Weird and Wild in Science Stories

    By Corinne Segal  September 14, 2021
    Reading Lists

    Water, Water Everywhere: Readings on Life’s Essential Ingredient

    By Giulio Boccaletti  September 14, 2021
    Antarctica

    Finding Purpose in the Desolation of Antarctica

    By Jemma Wadham  September 9, 2021
    Nature

    Amanita Muscaria, the Real Life Mushroom We Know From Disney Movies

    By Aliya Whiteley  September 9, 2021
    Wilderness

    Following the Paths of the Wild-Walking Women of the Past, from Nan Shepherd to Georgia O’Keeffe

    By Annabel Abbs  September 9, 2021
    Travel

    This geologist-turned-pastry chef is living as an actual hobbit in the Italian countryside.

    By Walker Caplan  September 7, 2021
    Behind the Mic

    My Garden World by Monty Don, Read by the Author

    By Behind the Mic   September 2, 2021
    Climate Crisis

    The Gathering Storm of Climate Change: On the Sickening Loss of the Land and the Optimism of the Youth Movement

    By Niall Williams and Christine Breen  August 31, 2021
    Indigenous Peoples

    “Kill Every Buffalo You Can!” On the Cruelties of Colonial Power

    By Rupa Marya and Raj Patel  August 30, 2021
    Trees

    The 18 Most Memorable Trees in Literature

    By Christopher Cox  August 23, 2021
    Animals

    What Will Happen to the Snow Leopard of the Himalayas?

    By William deBuys  August 19, 2021
    Wilderness

    To Abandon Civilization with Glee: Tracking Tigers in the Russian Wilderness

    By Jonathan Franklin  August 19, 2021
    Climate Crisis

    Tracing the Crisis of Desertification to Colonization

    By Lisa Wells  August 18, 2021
    Reading Women

    Shelby Cole on Climate Grief and Indigenous Land and Water Stewardship

    By Reading Women  August 18, 2021
    Biology

    The Beautiful Impossibility of the World’s Largest Pearl

    By Bill François  August 17, 2021
    Farming

    Inherit the Earth: James Rebanks on the Struggles of the Small Family Farmer

    By James Rebanks  August 12, 2021
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