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 ...

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 ...

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I’m in my favorite place, my screened-in porch. I sit out here surrounded by green and protected from bugs. Basking in the green green green of my own yard. It’s like a mini park with a narrow brook, ...

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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 ...

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

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

When a man washes up on an island’s shore after an ocean storm leaves him shipwrecked, his first thought is to build a raft. All he can focus on is escape back to a world he knows. He is lost, angry, ...

"When I was growing up, right whales’ slow extinction felt like something I could grasp in a world where climate catastrophe felt too vast to hold." ...