Why would trees go through the trouble of making this energetically expensive class of molecule in their leaves right before ...

In it, she asks, “How do we build the future on a deep yes, a deep longing for what we want?” This powerful inquiry is a question that continues to guide me as I work to empower others to imagine a ...

Their fascinating, morbid jewelry was beautiful and repulsive, but I couldn’t muster anything to say. I simply stood and ...

I GREW UP watching bats. For the kids in my suburban Long Island neighborhood in the 1980s, late summer nights were ...

The French writer Colette (1873–1954) wrote this piece during World War I. It was first published in Excelsior, a French newspaper, on January 29, 1918. “DO YOU KNOW that in a passage between trenches ...

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Rhizomes are the runners that many plants and trees (like sassafras, elder, Solomon’s seal, ferns, and mayapples) send forth as they spread outward from a “mother” plant into a proliferation of shoots ...

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Susan Mooney lives and teaches in Massachusetts and is currently working on a book about island life and climate change. Please enable JavaScript in your browser to ...

Tayo Basquiat writes to pay attention and teaches philosophy to pay bills. When he isn’t wandering the American West, he lives in North Dakota. Please enable ...