I FIRST DISCOVERED MY TREE IN A GRAINY, black-and-white photograph. I was skimming through the internet, inspecting towns ...

Corals are in fact three things in one: something of an animal, something of a plant, and something of a stone. They make ...

Damn, almost blew right past you. Inexcusable. Sacrilegious. Thanks for helping me extract my head, if only briefly, from my own ass. I need all the help I can get. Mind if I drop to hands and knees ...

Does the ivory-billed woodpecker still exist?

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AFEW YEARS AGO, while living on the Diné Nation, I first heard a striking proclamation that rang through the community with profound urgency: “Tó éí íín´á!”—“water is life.” I saw these words in bold ...

IN OUR FREE TIME, WE DESTROY TREES. Hundreds of them by now. Five years ago, soon after I bought the place, I gave my partner a Husqvarna 450 Rancher for Christmas. Since then, he’s had to replace the ...

THE MUSHROOM BURIAL SHROUD that covered Luke Perry’s face and famous forehead was black as night, or perhaps it was white as bone, made of organic cotton, and inlaid with white crochet tubes that ...

DEEP IN THE FORESTS of the southern coastal plains are places where trees rise up straight out of the ground, sometimes one hundred feet, their branches splayed all near the crown in a wide, high ...

I ONCE THOUGHT I KNEW what nature writing was: the pretty, sublime stuff minus the parking lot. The mountain majesty and the soaring eagle and the ancient forest without the human footprint, the ...