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The Ocean is a Lesbian: Notes on Queer Women and Water

The Ocean is a Lesbian: Notes on Queer Women and Water

"What is it with these lesbians and why are they all so wet?"

By Julia Armfield | July 12, 2022

In Praise of the Greatest Book About Swimming Ever Written

In Praise of the Greatest Book About Swimming Ever Written

Daniel Shailer on Charles Sprawson’s Haunts of the Black Masseur: The Swimmer as Hero

By Daniel Shailer | July 11, 2022

How a Scientist’s Dire Climate Warning Was Left Unheeded

How a Scientist’s Dire Climate Warning Was Left Unheeded

Benjamin von Brackel on Migrating Species and Earth’s Future

By Benjamin von Brackel | July 7, 2022

How to Write About Nature: Simple Language, Interspecies Empathy, and Use Your Eyes Like a Hawk

How to Write About Nature: Simple Language, Interspecies Empathy, and Use Your Eyes Like a Hawk

Verlyn Klinkenborg in Conversation with Andrew Keen

By Keen On | July 5, 2022

Cal Flyn Muses on Butterfly Land Grabs and Other Climate Migrations

Cal Flyn Muses on Butterfly Land Grabs and Other Climate Migrations

This Week from the Emergence Magazine Podcast

By Emergence Magazine | July 5, 2022

How the White Ecology of Disaster Inscribed Itself Into the Human Experience

How the White Ecology of Disaster Inscribed Itself Into the Human Experience

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Do Birds Dream About Their Own Birdsong?

Do Birds Dream About Their Own Birdsong?

David M. Peña-Guzmán on Animal Consciousnesss

By David M. Peña-Guzmán | June 23, 2022

“Warnings Imply You Have a Choice.” Rebecca Solnit in Conversation with Margaret Atwood

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Words of Hope, and a Defense of John Muir: Kim Stanley Robinson on His Love of the Sierra Nevadas

Words of Hope, and a Defense of John Muir: Kim Stanley Robinson on His Love of the Sierra Nevadas

The Author of The High Sierra: A Love Story Talks to Daniel LoPilato

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How Myth and Poetry Helped Us Unlock the Mysteries of Photosynthesis

How Myth and Poetry Helped Us Unlock the Mysteries of Photosynthesis

Raffael Jovine on Plants and Scientific History

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Of Wazhazhe Land and Language: The Ongoing Project of Ancestral Work

Of Wazhazhe Land and Language: The Ongoing Project of Ancestral Work

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The Pervasive Problem—and Far-Reaching Impact—of Tree Poaching

The Pervasive Problem—and Far-Reaching Impact—of Tree Poaching

Lyndsie Bourgon on the Theft of Our Deepest Connection to History

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