IT’S THE BLUE OF HOT METAL against the damp blue of sky, a flutter in the white pine, a bright tatter high up. When it ...

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

A WHIR OF JAZZ spins from the windowsill. For a minute, the muffled reverberation doesn’t register, my mind sifting it into the song that plays from the radio in my home office. When the erratic tempo ...

RIGHT HERE, RIGHT HERE, she sings, but I can no longer hear her words, her pacing, the shaping of each sound gliding past lips now gone. It’s been almost fifteen years since she ran out of air, died ...

TWO GRAY WHALES SWAM CLOSE to the westernmost edge of Cape Lookout, a narrow headland that juts out nearly two miles into the Pacific on the northern Oregon Coast. I peered down from a ...

IN THE EARLY 2000S, Free Willy played on repeat in our Baltimore home. My toddler sons would stand on the steps of the TV room, arms pumped overhead, striking the dramatic pose of Jesse the kid ...

"The creatures were bled for their utility." ...

"If you want to see a whale you won’t." ...

WHEN I WAS IN MIDDLE SCHOOL in Tokyo, I was once assigned to defend the ethics of Japanese whaling during a classroom debate. I recall not being thrilled that I was cast as the defense. Even at that ...

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