Williams about what true solidarity looks like Daniel Naawenkangua Abukuri investigates the epidemic of stolen donkeys—an ...

I HAVE COME TO THE TREE AGAIN, with a data sheet and an offering. That stately tulip tree above the creek in the woods behind ...

TO GET THE HEARTS AND MINDS of humans to the Moon, we’ve used many engines. Most have not been rockets.

A CATFISH WITH THREE EYES lived in the Gowanus Canal. I can say this with confidence because I have seen the evidence. The catfish was shiny and pitch-dark. After a fisherman hooked it and reeled it ...

BIGFOOT ISN’T REAL, but black bears are—that’s the subtext of a recent study by Dr. Floe Foxon mapping bear populations relative to cryptid sightings. That study, published in 2024, sparked my ...

THE GUITAR LINE UNFURLS with a kinetic, pulsing energy. Soft moans hover over the riff, both spooky and sensual. Then the synth slides in, drums steady the beat, and the song swells with the promise ...

Catherine Hobaiter is a professor of psychology and neuroscience at the University of St Andrews. Nathaniel J. Dominy is the Charles Hansen Professor of Anthropology at Dartmouth College. Collectively ...

THE CHICKEN WAS UNWELL. She no longer ran to the summons of the leftovers pail to scratch at the compost heap with the other hens. Morning found her in a corner of the henhouse facing the wall, with ...

THE FIRST TIME MAX! peed on the floor, we were delighted. He’d held his little bladder for so long after we left the shelter—more than twenty-four hours—we’d started to worry it would burst. Had he ...

IT IS THE FINAL WEEK of February 2017, the last of the dark nights in the hunting season on the Brahmaputra. The sun is down, leaving behind a rose-pink sky that fades to purple, then indigo which ...

I first encountered Robin Wall Kimmerer’s book, Braiding Sweetgrass, in the ecology section of my local bookstore. Jenny Odell: One thing I loved about this book is how demystifying it is. I remember ...

I OWE MY CAREER to Robert Redford. The list of people who can say that is long, but not many of those work at environmental organizations. I first met Bob in fall 2003 at the dedication of The Robert ...