WHEN LOS ANGELES COUNTY designed the Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing, they offered one way of thinking beyond the limitations of human-centered design: bowing down to the design constraints, and ...

A curated list of stories about bugs of all kinds. AS THE WEATHER GETS WARMER each year, something unavoidable happens: the insects come back out.While some find the bugs annoying or scary, we at ...

MEERA SUBRAMANIAN: Such inquiry fills these pages about the natural world and how faith shapes how we interact with it, about family and motherhood and daughterhood and the tippy balance between ...

Jonnica Hill / Unsplash Spring Lilacs Kristi Marciano. WHILE CLEARING OUT THE fenced-in backyard of our first apartment, my girlfriend pulled a black plastic pot from beneath a pile of rusted ...

When Tree Cover Causes Harm. WE DON’T JUST CUT THEM DOWN when they’re mature; we pull them out by the root when they sprout, or take loppers to them when they’re a little bigger. Most crucially, for a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...