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 ...

THE PECAN TREES show a capacity for concerted action, for unity of purpose that transcends the individual.They ensure somehow that all stand together and thus survive. Certain cues from 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 ...

In The Last of Us, Ophiocordyceps unilateralis, which in the real world turns ants to zombies, has ravaged the planet in a matter of days by making the leap to humans.Human hosts for the fictionalized ...

STEP #5: DON’T FEAR THE QUEER. If theses were still in vogue, I would tell you my thesis is queer ecology. But as Zapatista leader Subcommandante Marcos told Pierluigi Sullo from the forest of ...

IT IS RAINING IN Karachi as I write this, an ugly, punishing rain that returns with increasing fury every year.This year, as every year, the monsoon is supposed to be the “worst ever,” and, like every ...

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 ...

FROM THE EARLIEST DAYS of the Age of Consumerism there were critics. One of the most influential was Arthur Dahlberg, whose 1932 book Jobs, Machines, and Capitalism was well known to policymakers and ...

WE LIVE IN AN AGE of technology indistinguishable from magic, especially in the realm of thinking machines. Among other tasks, you can ask ChatGPT, one of the world’s most advanced deep-learning ...

“The mushroom pushes against boundaries,” writes Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, “and in doing so, it creates an opening.” So often, when humans look at mushrooms, we’re apt to see solutions—a cure, a trip, a ...

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 ...