• Nature

    The Hub

    5 great bug books to read while you’re hiding from the cicada explosion.

     
    By James Folta  May 15, 2024
    Birds

    John James Audubon Had More Than a Little Help With Those Bird Paintings

    By Kenn Kaufman  May 9, 2024
    Archives

    Soil As Archive: On the Work of Recognizing Alternate Forms of Sentience

    By Angie Sijun Lou  May 8, 2024
    Plants

    Floral Consciousness: Zoë Schlanger on What the Intelligence of Plants Can Teach Us About Ourselves

    By Lucy McKeon  May 7, 2024
    Nature Writing

    How a Multitude of Voices Can Broaden Our Understanding of the Natural World

    By Rebecca Kormos  May 2, 2024
    Animals

    How P.T. Barnum Brought Beluga Whales to New York City

    By Bill Wasik and Monica Murphy  April 25, 2024
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    Birds

    “We are Here.” On Rediscovering Safety and Beauty in the Wonders of Nature

    By Aimee Nezhukumatathil  April 22, 2024
    Read Smart

    Read Smart on Gardens Past and Present

    By Read Smart  April 22, 2024
    Aliens?

    Earth? Really? On Why Aliens Would Probably Skip Visiting Our Planet

    By Lisa Kaltenegger  April 16, 2024
    Journals

    Why You Should Keep a Garden Journal (Even if You Don’t Have a Garden)

    Fiona Warnick on the Question of What Is Worth Documenting

    By Fiona Warnick  May 9, 2024
    Emergence Magazine

    Susan Murphy Roshi on Earth as Koan

    By Emergence Magazine  April 3, 2024
    Eco-Memoir

    Earth, Head, and Heart: Six Deeply Researched Eco-Memoirs

    By Greg Wrenn  March 27, 2024
    Emergence Magazine

    Jenny Odell on Reading the Rocks

    By Emergence Magazine  March 27, 2024
    Emergence Magazine

    Lily Kelting on Holy Terroir

    This Week from the Emergence Magazine Podcast

    By Emergence Magazine  March 20, 2024
    Animals

    “She’s Bouncing the Ball!” On the Uncanny Way Octopuses Play

    By David Toomey  March 18, 2024
    Nature Writing

    “So Boundless an Affluence of Sublime Mountain Beauty…” When John Muir First Encountered Yosemite

    By Dean King  March 14, 2024
    Natural History

    Secrets in Amber: How Trees Help Preserve Essential Prehistory

    By Daniel Lewis  March 14, 2024
    Climate Crisis

    The Birds of Northern Manhattan: On Vanishing Human and Non-Human Habitats

    Emily Raboteau Considers the Intersections of Climate Change and Gentrification

    By Emily Raboteau  March 13, 2024
    Emergence Magazine

    Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee is Enraptured with Earth

    By Emergence Magazine  March 13, 2024
    American West

    Lost Boys: On a Hidden Fraternity of the Forsaken in the American West

    By Judith Freeman and Jim Mangan  March 4, 2024
    Creative Nonfiction

    The Crooked Timber of the Mind: On the Rise of “Autojournalism”

    By Robert Moor  February 27, 2024
    Birds

    Avian Teachers: On What We Can Learn from Birds

    Trish O’Kane Explores the Myriad Ways Our Feathered Friends Can Show Us Smarter, More Compassionate Ways of Living

    By Trish O'Kane  February 27, 2024
    Sharks

    The Ever-Present Unseeable Terror: On Millennia of Human-Shark Relations

    By Tim Flannery and Emma Flannery  February 23, 2024
    Animals

    In Search of the Elusive, Eternal Otter

    By Miriam Darlington  February 21, 2024
    Nature Writing

    What Do You Get When You Cross the Contemporary Novel with Nature Writing?

    By Fiona Williams  April 10, 2024
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