Remember, invasive species did not come along uninvited. The movement of non-native species is anthropogenic. Humans brought ...

Excerpted from Poking the Squid: What We Can Learn from Animal Sex. Copyright © 2026 by Perrin Roosevelt Ireland. Used with permission of the publisher, W. W. Norton ...

iT TOOK HER SOME TIME to read ayn rand. ants, after all, communicate via pheromones, and finding atlas shrugged and the fountainhead in pheromonic translations is easier said than done. and it could ...

All species of birds. Every species I’ve studied has its own language, dialects, customs, and tribes. They have deep long-lasting relationships and unique personalities. They engage in complex ...

Join a community of writers, improve your craft, and reimagine how you think about nature. Guided by award-winning instructors, the Orion Environmental Writers’ Workshop provides an intimate space to ...

Shanda McManus is a physician and writer whose work lives at the intersection of medicine, memory, and the stories we carry in our bodies. She is the author of Brother Epistles: A Sister’s Memoir, and ...

Amy Genser works with paper, paint, metal, and wood to explore her obsessions with texture, pattern, and color. She is fascinated by the flow of water, the shape of beehives, and the organic ...

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 ...

IT IS SPRING IN HOUSTON, which means that each day the temperature rises and so does the humidity. The bricks of my house sweat. In my yard the damp air condenses on the leaves of the crepe myrtle ...

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 ...