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The Life and Times of “The Most Intelligent Bird in the World

The Life and Times of “The Most Intelligent Bird in the World"

Jonathan Meiburg on the Remarkable Mental and Physical Dexterity of Tina the Striated Caracara

By Jonathan Meiburg | March 30, 2021

Telling Tales of Climate Collapse: Novelists Weigh In

Telling Tales of Climate Collapse: Novelists Weigh In

Part Two of Amy Brady’s Conversation with Pitchaya Sudbanthad, Madeleine Watts,
Diane Wilson, and More

By Amy Brady | March 25, 2021

What Happens When Apex Predators Take Over the Planet

What Happens When Apex Predators Take Over the Planet

Stefano Mancuso on the Extinctions of the Anthropocene

By Stefano Mancuso | March 25, 2021

The Wild and Elemental City: Finding Life in Pandemic<br> New York

The Wild and Elemental City: Finding Life in Pandemic
New York

Megan Fernandes: “What counts as ‘natural’ says more about who counts as human.”

By Megan Fernandes | March 25, 2021

How Contemporary Novelists Are Confronting Climate Collapse in Fiction

How Contemporary Novelists Are Confronting Climate Collapse in Fiction

Part One of a Roundtable with Kim Stanley Robinson, Lydia Millet,
John Lanchester, Omar El Akkad, and More

By Amy Brady | March 24, 2021

A Beautiful Harvest: How Students in Japan Turn Urushi Trees Into Lacquer

A Beautiful Harvest: How Students in Japan Turn Urushi Trees Into Lacquer

Hannah Kirshner on an Intricate Form of Craftsmanship

By Hannah Kirshner | March 23, 2021

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A new species of jumping spider has been named after Eric Carle.

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

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

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On the Frontlines of the Battle to Preserve the American West

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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

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Eugene Thacker on the 1907 Novella The Willows

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The Unavoidable Villainy of Being an Organic Farmer

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

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

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Finding Communion With One of England’s Ancient Oak Trees

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