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Natural History
Deep Blue Home
PART ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY, part high-seas drama, part mythology, ecology, and cultural history, this…
Brilliant
EVER SINCE PROMETHEUS robbed the gods to give humans fire, light has been linked to culture. In English,…
An Entirely Synthetic Fish
THEIR NATIVE WATERS span the Pacific Rim, from Kamchatka to Mexico, yet after years of artificial…
The Global Forest
DIANA BERESFORD-KROEGER is on a mission to teach us that trees are vital to the health of people and…
Birdology
GOOD LITERATURE envelops the reader in a whole world; it invites us to be visually, verbally, and…
Tears of Mermaids
A PEARL IS, essentially, an irritant in the gonads, coated with layer after smooth layer of aragonite…
Heart of Dryness
IN ANCIENT SUMER, the residents of Umma destroyed the water supply of a rival city-state. India and…
The Blue Plateau
THE ACTUAL landscape of Mark Tredinnick’s The Blue Plateau is a relatively small area…
Naming Nature
LIKE MANY SCIENCES, the history of taxonomy, the practice of naming life on Earth, describes a tumultuous…
The Big Burn
COME THE SUMMER months there’s an uneasiness in the Rockies these days. In Montana’s Bitterroot…
