Category: Outdoors & Nature

The Book of Eels: Their Lives, Secrets and Myths

What has been the dish of kings, the subject of myths and the traveller of epic and mysterious journeys? The

What drives American foreign relations in the Arctic? It is difficult to give a unified answer to this question because

Free-flowing rivers in the United States are an endangered species. With more than 500,000 dams in place, we’ve dammed and

In this lively and illuminating discussion of his landmark research, esteemed primatologist Frans de Waal argues that human morality is

In his new nonfiction book Zeitoun, New York Times best-selling author Dave Eggers tells a Hurricane Katrina story unlike any written before. When

Epic wildfire. Devastating drought. Cataclysmic flooding. Extreme weather in the wake of climate change threatens to turn the American West

For millennia, humans have tried to understand and predict the weather. The Space Age helped usher in satellites and radar,

Living at the limits of our ordinary perception, mosses are a common but largely unnoticed element of the natural world. Gathering

“Lively writing about science and nature depends less on the offering of good answers, I think, than on the offering