ALISON: There’s a spring-fed pool here full of turtles, fish, salamanders, crawfish, plants, mosses, and birds. I swim in it as often as I can, and it’s magical. I feel such recognition with the ...

In the city, nature is but a walk, bike, or bus ride away. Consider the pigeon pair picking French fries off the ground who are probably mated for life, will teach their young valuable survival skills ...

Mami spends her days working as a lawyer in an air-conditioned office. My sister and I await her arrival every afternoon, our ...

Future Imperfect is a four-part series guest-edited by Nathaniel Rich that published online from October 2024 to February ...

Sabrina Imbler is the author of How Far the Light Reaches, winner of a Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and a staff writer at ...

A parent’s concessions in a changing climate ...

PRIVATE CARS WERE RELATIVELY SCARCE in 1919 and horse-drawn conveyances were still common. In residential districts, electric streetlights had not yet replaced many of the old gaslights. And within ...

DEEP IN THE FORESTS of the southern coastal plains are places where trees rise up straight out of the ground, sometimes one hundred feet, their branches splayed all near the crown in a wide, high ...

A CEMETERY SEEMED AN ODD PLACE to contemplate the boundaries of being. Sandwiched between the campus and the interstate, this old burial ground is our cherished slice of nearby nature where the long ...

ON AN UNSEASONABLY WARM day in the middle of March, I traveled from New Hampshire to the moist, dim sanctuary of the New England Aquarium, hoping to touch an alternate reality. I came to meet Athena, ...

WE GOT TO YOSEMITE IN THE EARLY AFTERNOON. It was before the drought, and the trees were all green. James drove around the traffic-clogged loop road while I gawked. He told me what everything was ...