In the city, nature is but a walk, bike, or bus ride away. Consider the pigeon pair picking French fries off the ground who are probably mated for life, will teach their young valuable survival skills ...

ALISON: There’s a spring-fed pool here full of turtles, fish, salamanders, crawfish, plants, mosses, and birds. I swim in it as often as I can, and it’s magical. I feel such recognition with the ...

Mami spends her days working as a lawyer in an air-conditioned office. My sister and I await her arrival every afternoon, our ...

Sabrina Imbler is the author of How Far the Light Reaches, winner of a Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and a staff writer at ...

Future Imperfect is a four-part series guest-edited by Nathaniel Rich that published online from October 2024 to February ...

WE GOT TO YOSEMITE IN THE EARLY AFTERNOON. It was before the drought, and the trees were all green. James drove around the traffic-clogged loop road while I gawked. He told me what everything was ...

MINNESOTA HAS FOLLOWED A GRITTY but bipartisan path to climate action. The state has set goals, and when success was in sight, pushed further. A key architect of these policies and the politics to ...

FREELANCE WRITER AND ILLUSTRATOR Martha Park’s debut book World Without End: Essays on Apocalypse and After, is a literary love song to the future, beheld with an expectant hope. Daughter of a ...

AFTER ABOUT A YEAR AND A HALF of dating, Sam and I decided he should move into my house. We had each lived with partners before, but those moves had been swayed by financial stress and global ...

A PHOTO OF A REDWOOD’S muscular, six-hundred-year-old base. To the left a fun-sized woman, in the Bay Area only briefly and wanting to make the most of it, trying to hug the tree’s ancient girth. She ...

ON A MID-AUGUST SUNDAY in that bleak pandemic summer of 2020, the air near central California’s Big Basin Redwoods State Park felt muggy, almost tropical. Weird, thought naturalist Christian Schwarz, ...

I HAD THE AMAZING EXPERIENCE, in preparing for this conversation, of getting to read these authors’ works all at once—Merlin Sheldrake, Jeff VanderMeer, and Kaitlin Smith. I hope it’s not ...