How Wasps Are Less Bothersome—And More Beautiful—Than We Think

How Wasps Are Less Bothersome—And More Beautiful—Than We Think

Seirian Sumner on the Science Behind Wasp Stings

By Seirian Sumner | July 25, 2022

Rebecca Giggs Explains How Very Small Beings Are Often Responsible For Vast Surges of Life

Rebecca Giggs Explains How Very Small Beings Are Often Responsible For Vast Surges of Life

This Week from the Emergence Magazine Podcast

By Emergence Magazine | July 19, 2022

On Finding Solace Among Nature’s Gentlest of Giants, the Gray Whale

On Finding Solace Among Nature’s Gentlest of Giants, the Gray Whale

"Even in the constant darkness of the polar winter, each aġviq finds plenty to sing about."

By Doreen Cunningham | July 14, 2022

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

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

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Cal Flyn Muses on Butterfly Land Grabs and Other Climate Migrations

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

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Could the Great Gray Owl Be the Key to Solving Noise Pollution?

Could the Great Gray Owl Be the Key to Solving Noise Pollution?

Jackie Higgins Guests on the Book Dreams Podcast

By Book Dreams | June 30, 2022

Fiddleheads, F*ck Ups, and Life on the Farm

Fiddleheads, F*ck Ups, and Life on the Farm

“On the farm there isn’t a maze of an ecosystem but just a simple human plan.”

By Ellyn Gaydos | June 28, 2022

Courage, Wilderness, Self, and Other: A Reading List of Exploration

Courage, Wilderness, Self, and Other: A Reading List of Exploration

Lindy Elkins-Tanton on the Books That Inspired Her Journeys

By Lindy Elkins-Tanton | June 28, 2022

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

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

Celebrating 40 Years of Orion Magazine

By Literary Hub | June 22, 2022

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

By Daniel LoPilato | June 22, 2022

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

By Raffael Jovine | June 22, 2022

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