That’s where they outshine us.” Biologists spend a lot of time writing about the important role of sound and vocalizations in ...

Navied Mahdavian has been a contributing cartoonist at the New Yorker since 2018. His work has also been published in ...

IF YOU BELIEVE the legend (and I have no reason to doubt it), in July 2002, Jason Molina—who’d recorded six previous albums under the moniker Songs: Ohia—set up in a Chicago recording studio, where a ...

SOMETIMES REVENGE IS the only first response to betrayal. Then comes the journey toward healing. When Beyoncé’s husband, rapper and music mogul Jay-Z, cheated on her with the now infamous “Becky with ...

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 ...

NOT A HUMPBACK, wing-graced, that sonic savant, so filled with song it can’t help but serenade the rest of creation. Not a common Sperm whale, the common a misnomer, so potent in metaphors, too suited ...

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 ...

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

The first issue of the Orion Nature Quarterly was published in June 1982, and in its editorial George Russell, the publication’s first Editor-in-Chief, boldly stated Orion’s values: “It is Orion’s ...

Jennifer Lunden’s debut essay, “The Butterfly Effect,” won first prize in the Creative Nonfiction animal issue (Winter 2011), went on to win a Pushcart, and later was anthologized in True Stories, ...

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 ...