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 ...

Do you knock on wood? You must absolutely knock an even number of times. If you knock once or five times you have damned yourself for eternity. Navigating dense, elbowy pedestrian traffic in Midtown ...

IN THE MIDDLE OF THE PACIFIC, the black, volcanic ruins of Pinta Island were once dotted by thousands of “living rocks,” Galapágos tortoises chomping prickly cacti, wallowing in mud beneath the ...

Kathleen Yale: The visual imagery in This Country is beautiful. There is a softness, an almost whimsical intimacy in the way you draw landscapes, flying bats, migrating birds, moon shadows, and wild ...

Place-Based Education: Connecting Classrooms and Communities by David Sobel The most comprehensive review of place-based education – its pedagogy and its practice ...

The Spring 2026 issue, Working the Land: Lessons in Labor and Collective Action, explores the relationship between labor and the environment and calls for solidarity at a time when that value is under ...

Many of us have enjoyed long journeys (expeditions, treks) that involve radical changes of setting and habit. Much excellent writing has come out of this type of movement (think Robert Macfarlane, ...

When we write about landscapes we know well and inhabit, it is easy to stop truly seeing and fall into habits surrounding language, image, and form. When this happens, poets need to find ways to ...

Kyla McCallum: When imagining the natural world of your fairy tale retellings, what is the research process like? Do you draw on the fairy tale’s country of origin for inspiration? T. Kingfisher: That ...

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 ...

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 ...

In our Spring 2021 issue, Isaac Yuen dove deep into the fantastical worlds of acclaimed director Hayao Miyazaki. Here, in a special online feature, listen to Yuen read as he recounts Miyazaki’s ...