Elizabeth Kolbert: Cleaning Up America’s Filthy Rivers May Be a Neverending Job

Elizabeth Kolbert: Cleaning Up America’s Filthy Rivers May Be a Neverending Job

“First you reverse a river. Then you electrify it.”

By Elizabeth Kolbert | March 9, 2021

On the Frontlines of the Battle to Preserve the American West

On the Frontlines of the Battle to Preserve the American West

From White Nationalists to Endangered Tortoises, Michelle Nijhuis Encounters the Modern Wilderness

By Michelle Nijhuis | March 9, 2021

How Algernon Blackwood Turned Nature Into<br> Sublime Horror

How Algernon Blackwood Turned Nature Into
Sublime Horror

Eugene Thacker on the 1907 Novella The Willows

By Eugene Thacker | March 8, 2021

The Unavoidable Villainy of Being an Organic Farmer

The Unavoidable Villainy of Being an Organic Farmer

Julie Carrick Dalton on Being the Mr. McGregor of Her Garden’s Story

By Julie Carrick Dalton | March 1, 2021

The Keepers of Wilderness: Why China’s Kazakh Herders Are Giving Up a Life of Migration

The Keepers of Wilderness: Why China’s Kazakh Herders Are Giving Up a Life of Migration

Li Juan on Traveling, Living, and Working with a Family of
Nomadic Pastoralists

By Li Juan | February 26, 2021

Finding Communion With One of England’s Ancient Oak Trees

Finding Communion With One of England’s Ancient Oak Trees

James Canton on the 800-Year-Old Honywood Oak

By James Canton | February 25, 2021

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The Struggle to Define Wilderness: On Encountering John Muir in Bear Country

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How Herbalism Became Big Business in the US

How Herbalism Became Big Business in the US

Ann Ambrecht on the Drawbacks of the Herbal Renaissance

By Ann Armbrecht | February 12, 2021

Megafires and Mass Extinction: Searching for Hope at the End of the Natural World

Megafires and Mass Extinction: Searching for Hope at the End of the Natural World

Robbie Arnott on 'Longing for a Wilder Time'

By Robbie Arnott | February 11, 2021

<em>The Journeys of Trees</em> by Zach St. George, Read by Daniel Henning

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On the Future of Trees

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Why Nature Always Makes for the Best Antagonist

Why Nature Always Makes for the Best Antagonist

Susan Meissner Recommends Ten Books Set Against Disaster

By Susan Meissner | February 1, 2021

A Return to Druidry During the COVID-19 Pandemic?

A Return to Druidry During the COVID-19 Pandemic?

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By Emergence Magazine | February 1, 2021

Leave No Trace: Can We Ever Enjoy the Wilderness Without Destroying It?

Leave No Trace: Can We Ever Enjoy the Wilderness Without Destroying It?

Todd Robert Petersen on the Impossible Balancing of Preservation, Leisure, and Weirdness

By Todd Robert Petersen | January 29, 2021

What Gods? On Writing Spirituality<br> in Literary Fiction

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Alexander Weinstein Explains the Importance of the Sacred in Storytelling

By Alexander Weinstein | January 28, 2021

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