PART OF THE BEAUTY of spring and summer come from cthe flowers which bloom around us. They come in many shapes, sizes, and ...

AS THE WEATHER GETS WARMER each year, something unavoidable happens: the insects come back out. While some find the bugs ...

I MET ELAN HAGENS at a Coast Range trailhead about thirty minutes from the Tillamook Cheese Factory. I grew up hiking and backpacking in Oregon, but I’d never gone into the woods with a specifically ...

MY TWO-WEEK VISIT WAS bookended by a pair of annual mushroom festivals, scheduled to align with what was supposed to be peak mushroom season. At the beginning of my trip was the Yachats Mushroom ...

Jeff VanderMeer: It’s very interesting to me to hear from people who are more hardwired into the science, being primarily a fiction writer who has come back into naturalism and ecology through themes ...

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 HISTORY OF the plastic carrier bag—the kind so often found caught on a tree branch and flagging in the wind—is a story of persuasion.. For over a century, the paper bag held dominion over how ...

AS PART OF HER tenure as the 24th U.S. Poet Laureate and in association with the Library of Congress, Ada Limón commissioned fifty-two contemporary American poets to reflect on their place in the ...

SOCIAL RESEARCHER Phoebe Hamilton Jones says the antidote to shifting baselines is found in our ability to pay attention and to call forth what once was. “Knowing the names of flora and fauna,” she ...

THE REASON I’M so hyped about this discovery, despite my last science class having been decades ago, is that the interstitium is a conceptual skeleton key, unlocking a more sophisticated, accurate way ...

DURING THE OPENING CREDITS of the hit HBO series The Last of Us, a river of slime mold wends its way through darkness, through bushy foliate jelly mushrooms, arboreal earth tongues, and xylaroids, ...

I’M A SUCKER FOR ENCHANTMENT, especially when it arises from unlikely places. By a year and a half into the pandemic in the fall of 2021, I had become increasingly frustrated by the incursion of ...