and found a universe of life.

THE DRY COUNTRY IS fond of yellow as its accent color. The landscape primarily clothes itself in tones of earthy strata and the soft neutrals of grassland, but yellow is always part of the ensemble, ...

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 ...

The genre of environmental writing has been expanding in recent years.

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, ...

Meditations on time and rebellion against the straight line ...

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 ...

And if you find a penny? Do you pick it up? Only if it is heads up. What is your most treasured comfort meal? My mom’s lumpia and fried rice with mangoes (chilled, sliced) from their backyard for ...

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 ...

To depict a loveless and macabre world—a world of the scarecrow acting as the Lord of blood-thirsty crows, of the harridan decked out as a beauty queen . . . a world of debased flesh and servile ...

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, ...

BIGFOOT ISN’T REAL, but black bears are—that’s the subtext of a recent study by Dr. Floe Foxon mapping bear populations relative to cryptid sightings. That study, published in 2024, sparked my ...