‘Nuthatches and Carolina wrens swapped perches in the elm’

A burst of whistles pierced the foggy morning in the Missouri Ozarks...

I am obviously not travelling for coffee but for oil. Or rather: for art...

The extinction of a species is a ghastly thing...

We badly need a healthier relationship to combustion. Rather than erratic, runaway fires, we need regular, restorative ones, like we used to have...

Through the plague year, nature has been the only permitted escape: the parks, the hikes...

The book runs the gamut of conservation techniques: specimen collection and field research, zoos and nature preserves, assisted colonization, and de-extinction via genetic rescue...

Even though reefs got knocked down, they got back up again...

Beginning in December 1917, a powerful series of unrelenting and formidable ice storms and blizzards wreaked havoc across the United States...

Deep inside the fractured forests that still ring the mountain, a hallowed sense of wonder persists...

The most infamous mine in China is Bayan-Obo, the largest REE mine in the world. Even more infamous than the mine itself is the tailing pond it has produced...

The soapwort gentian now. In an old pasture, now grown up to birches and other trees, followed the cow-paths to the old apple trees...

At the sites chosen for the groundnut scheme, tractors and bulldozers from military surplus stores in Egypt proved unable to tackle the hard ground and tough vegetation, so the planners turned to a novel solution: repurposing surplus Sherman M4A2 tanks...

Like fungi, myxomycetes begin their lives as spores, but when a myxomycete spore germinates and cracks open, a microscopic amoeba slithers out...

The superficial international media hype rattled locals for its treatment of mucilage primarily as a spectacle...

Spectacle Island would not look the way it does today if it were not for Boston...

When we found the lumpy soup of proto-frogs, it felt reassuring to me: a symbol of renewal...

Community groups are playing a prominent role in managing major forests...

Humble dwellings like the Camargue huts invite us to tell a different kind of story about human-environment relationships, one less focused on human beings’ mastery of nature...

As power plants find more effective and eco-friendly ways to produce energy, they often increase their output in response to their elevated efficiency. In doing so, they also produce more CO2 than they would otherwise...