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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A PHOTO OF A REDWOOD’S muscular, six-hundred-year-old base. To the left a fun-sized woman, in the Bay Area only briefly and wanting to make the most of it, trying to hug the tree’s ancient girth. She ...

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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 ...

We are proud to announce that this essay won the 2026 James Beard Foundation Journalism Award for the best food-related personal essay. You can read some of Erica Berry’s thoughts on winning, and ...

You might see George Saunders’s first four books of short stories as a whole life’s creative growth compressed into a dozen years: discovering voice, developing characters, settling into themes, and ...

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 ...

BIRDS HAVE BEEN A PART OF MY LIFE for as long as I can remember, and hummingbirds have held a special place in my heart for the simple reason that they, early on, became personal to me. On some level, ...