• Nature

    In Conversation

    Manjula Martin on Chronicling a World in Constant Turmoil

    By Jane Ciabattari  January 23, 2024
    Emergence Magazine

    Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee on Remembering Earth

    By Emergence Magazine  January 22, 2024
    Wildfires

    Lightning and Land Ablaze: The Primal Terror of Living in Wildfire Country

    By Manjula Martin  January 18, 2024
    The Moon

    Motherhood and the Moon: On Liminal States of Change and Uncertainty

    By Rebecca Boyle  January 16, 2024
    The Great Outdoors

    What We Learn About Ourselves in the Wilderness

    By Andrew J. Graff  January 16, 2024
    Emergence Magazine

    A Path Older Than Memory

    By Emergence Magazine  January 16, 2024
    Reading Lists

    For the Love of Plants: 11 Books on Nature and Conservation Coming Out in 2024

    By Amy Brady  January 12, 2024
    Photography

    Rebecca Solnit on Meghann Riepenhoff’s Cyanotype Prints Made in Freezing Landscapes

    By Rebecca Solnit and Meghann Riepenhoff  December 13, 2023
    The Natural World

    Colonizing Plants: How Bougainvillea Conquered the World

    By Shahnaz Habib  December 6, 2023
    Nature Writing

    Walden, Freestyled: Reimagining and Reclaiming What It Means to Be Black in Nature

    By Edward Moreta Jr.  December 4, 2023
    2023 Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction

    “The Status Quo is Not an Option…” John Vaillant on Our Climate Future

    By Alex Clark  November 22, 2023
    Emergence Magazine

    Kerri ní Dochartaigh on How Motherhood Taught Her About Mammalhood

    By Emergence Magazine  November 20, 2023
    Ireland

    A Cartogropher’s Glorious Paean to the Landscape of Connemara

    By Tim Robinson  November 17, 2023
    The Natural World

    The Ability to Transform: On Wolves Becoming People, and People Becoming Wolves

    By Sonja Swift  November 17, 2023
    Alligators

    Beyond the Easy Mythology of “Florida Man” in the Heart of the Everglades

    By Rebecca Renner  November 14, 2023
    Food

    A Brief History of Onions in America

    By Mark Kurlansky  November 9, 2023
    Geology

    Magical and Essential: On the Mineral and Metallic Bases of Our World

    By Ed Conway  November 8, 2023
    Animals

    What the Marabou Stork Taught Me About Writing in an Era of Mass Extinction and Waste

    By Ashia Ajani  November 6, 2023
    Emergence Magazine

    Hear a New Short Story from Laia Jufresa

    By Emergence Magazine  November 6, 2023
    Animals

    The Scariest, Creepiest, and Most Frightening Animals in Fiction

    By Justin C Key  October 31, 2023
    The Sea

    The Shape of Water: How the Movement of Oceans Impacts Human Activity

    By Helen Czerski  October 30, 2023
    The History of Literature

    America’s First Man of Letters: Washington Irving

    By History of Literature  October 30, 2023
    Emergence Magazine

    Anna Badkhen on Imprints of the Past

    By Emergence Magazine  October 30, 2023
    Mushrooms

    Instead of Writing, Margaret Renkl Forages for Fungi

    By Margaret Renkl  October 24, 2023
    Aliens?

    UFO or UF-No: What Would Take for Aliens to Visit Our Solar System?

    By Adam Frank  October 24, 2023
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