I FIRST DISCOVERED MY TREE IN A GRAINY, black-and-white photograph. I was skimming through the internet, inspecting towns ...

Corals are in fact three things in one: something of an animal, something of a plant, and something of a stone. They make ...

Damn, almost blew right past you. Inexcusable. Sacrilegious. Thanks for helping me extract my head, if only briefly, from my own ass. I need all the help I can get. Mind if I drop to hands and knees ...

Does the ivory-billed woodpecker still exist?

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DEEP IN THE FORESTS of the southern coastal plains are places where trees rise up straight out of the ground, sometimes one hundred feet, their branches splayed all near the crown in a wide, high ...

WE LIVE IN AN AGE of technology indistinguishable from magic, especially in the realm of thinking machines. Among other tasks, you can ask ChatGPT, one of the world’s most advanced deep-learning ...

IN THE FALL OF 1941, as the Nazis invaded Russia, choking trade routes into Leningrad and starving the city’s population, a group of botanists decided to not allow the world to end. They were ...

I ONCE THOUGHT I KNEW what nature writing was: the pretty, sublime stuff minus the parking lot. The mountain majesty and the soaring eagle and the ancient forest without the human footprint, the ...

I WAS IN THE LOCAL PUB with my friend Mark. We meet every Tuesday night in this tiny village in the west of Ireland to drink Guinness and play chess. I usually lose. As we played, the oversized ...