In 2024, you loved stories about music and religion, the color green and careful considerations of grief and hope, little ...

In birding circles, they say the first bird you see in a new year sets the tone for what follows. Anything can be meaningful if you see it as a sign. On the first day of 2020, as I drove to an early ...

GEOGRAPHERS EMPLOY THE poetically evocative term “Pole of Inaccessibility” to describe the most geographically remote location, the place that lies farthest from the edge. On land, a pole of ...

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THE HOTEL WHERE I was staying, Villa Amazônia, was constructed in 1907, around the time the movie takes place. It had been a private residence, and many elements of the original building remain. It ...

IN MY BACKYARD, I have a makeshift pond: a galvanized steel tub, about two feet in diameter, outfitted with an electric ...

So much of today’s climate storytelling recounts the awe-inducing extraordinary: rampant wildfires, uncategorizable hurricanes, disastrously high tides, and deadly heat waves. But overshadowed in ...

Our winter 2024, “Green Screen,” explores representations of nature in film—the ways, for better and worse, that we portray the natural world onscreen, and how these portrayals shape the way we look ...

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The human eye perceives the color green before all else, and we’ve evolved to discern a broad range of it: the safety of the green canopies our ancestors once took shelter in, the bloviating greens of ...