ON A BRISK EVENING IN SEPTEMBER, Krista Tippett, host of On Being, gathered with authors and environmental thinkers Robin Wall Kimmerer and Azita Ardakani in a quiet corner of the New York Public ...

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Remember, invasive species did not come along uninvited. The movement of non-native species is anthropogenic. Humans brought these plants and animals across land and sea, across borders and ecosystems ...

EVERYTHING HAS A NATURAL RHYTHM: trees swaying, grass blowing, birds singing. As a dancer, you learn to pay attention to these rhythms, in the world and in your body, and find movements that feel ...

FIVE THOUSAND YEARS AGO, a wounded man fled into the mountains. With an arrowhead embedded deep in his left shoulder, he stumbled into a valley. The somber peaks of Finailspitze and Similaun glared ...

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THE MUSHROOM BURIAL SHROUD that covered Luke Perry’s face and famous forehead was black as night, or perhaps it was white as bone, made of organic cotton, and inlaid with white crochet tubes that ...

Bats in the belfry. I’ve worked with threatened lesser long-nosed bats, who are great pollinators of tall cacti, agaves, and tree morning glories, and their roosting caves don’t get no respect. I’ve ...

A CEMETERY SEEMED AN ODD PLACE to contemplate the boundaries of being. Sandwiched between the campus and the interstate, this old burial ground is our cherished slice of nearby nature where the long ...

RICK HANEY, GANGLY AND GARRULOUS, paces in front of a congregation of government conservationists, working the room for laughs before he gets to the hard data. The U.S. Department of Agriculture soil ...

AFEW YEARS AGO, while living on the Diné Nation, I first heard a striking proclamation that rang through the community with profound urgency: “Tó éí íín´á!”—“water is life.” I saw these words in bold ...

EARLY IN 2004, a buoy was released into the waters off Argentina. Half of the buoy was dark and the other light, like a planet in relief. The buoy sailed east, accompanied by the vastness of the ocean ...