• Nature

    Emergence Magazine

    Elizabeth Rush on the Thwaites Glacier

    By Emergence Magazine  February 8, 2024
    Natural History

    How an Icelandic Bird Led to the Discovery of Human-Caused Extinction

    By Gísli Pálsson  February 7, 2024
    Myths and Legends

    Why We Anthropomorphize Animals (and Always Have)

    By Hana Videen  February 6, 2024
    The Craft of Writing

    Rick Bass on What Hunting Taught Hemingway About Writing

    By Rick Bass  February 2, 2024
    Emergence Magazine

    Seeds of Reciprocity

    By Emergence Magazine  January 31, 2024
    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
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