• Nature

    Children's Lit

    Reading Robert McCloskey’s Maine Trilogy as an Antidote to Climate Change Despair

    By Ethan Warren  August 16, 2023
    Emergence Magazine

    When the Earth Started to Sing

    By Emergence Magazine  August 7, 2023
    The Literary Life with Mitchell Kaplan

    Campbell McGrath on Reading Poetry Aloud

    By The Literary Life  August 4, 2023
    Sharks

    When Predator Becomes Prey: Why Sharks Need Protection From Humans

    By Greg Skomal and Ret Talbot  July 26, 2023
    Keen On

    Keggie Carew on How Humans Are Just Another Species

    By Keen On  July 26, 2023
    Sports History

    A Transformative Moment in the History of Fishing: On Catching the Largest Tuna Ever Recorded

    By Karen Pinchin  July 25, 2023
    Animals

    Do Octopuses Dream of Elusive Crabs?

    By David Scheel  July 24, 2023
    Life Under Late Capitalism

    The World’s Garbage Can: On the Human Consequences of Mass Export of Waste

    By Oliver Franklin-Wallis  July 21, 2023
    Language

    Who. That. It. How We Speak About and For Animals

    By Keggie Carew  July 19, 2023
    Birds

    A Paradise of Birds: The Puffins of the Remote Island of Skellig Michael

    By Robert L. Harris  July 18, 2023
    Birds

    From One Into Many: On the Science of Starling Murmurations

    By Giorgio Parisi  July 17, 2023
    Bears

    Year-Long Insomnia: Why Black Bears Have Stopped Hibernating

    By Gloria Dickie  July 12, 2023
    Keen On

    Patrick Dean on America’s “First” Great Naturalist, Mark Catesby

    By Keen On  July 6, 2023
    Read Smart

    Wade Davis on the British Desire to Conquer the “Third Pole,” Mount Everest

    By Read Smart  July 5, 2023
    Keen On

    Nate Halverson on the Chilling Plot to Grab the World’s Food and Water Resources

    By Keen On  July 5, 2023
    New in Nonfiction

    10 Nonfiction Books to Read This July

    By Jonny Diamond  June 30, 2023
    Gardening

    Gentrification’s Constant Gardener: Natalie Beach on Finding Herself in South Brooklyn’s Gardens

    By Natalie Beach  June 29, 2023
    Keen On

    Christian Cooper on Finding Freedom in a Lifelong Love of Birds

    By Keen On  June 27, 2023
    Keen On

    Roger Ballen on the Existential Ecological Psychodrama of the Destruction of African Wildlife

    By Keen On  June 27, 2023
    Water

    Seven Swims: Omar El Akkad Chronicles a Life In Water

    By Omar El Akkad  June 16, 2023
    Farming

    How Colorado Became Ground Zero For Hemp Production

    By Finn Murphy  June 14, 2023
    Keen On

    Peter Gleick on the Prehistoric Past, Imperiled Present, and Hopeful Future of Water

    By Keen On  June 14, 2023
    Owls

    Why Harry Potter’s Hedwig Would Make a Terrible Pet

    By Jennifer Ackerman  June 13, 2023
    Emergence Magazine

    Nathaniel Rich Reads His Story Hidden Bayou

    By Emergence Magazine  June 12, 2023
    Sailing

    Between the River and the Sea: Surviving a Near-Death Experience on the Columbia River

    By Randall Sullivan  June 9, 2023
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