“There is no more urgent form of communication than going extinct.”

I am of that bit of earth. So I will not let it go. I show up in the small ways I can, which is talking to people, which is why I tell this to you.

“I have sat inside her rib cage. And yet I know nothing about her.”

“But perhaps it’s neither here nor there how we think about death. Perhaps the work that must be done is in how we think about life.”

“It might not seem like the right time to talk about plastics…But it is. And the world doesn’t have a moment to waste.”

These essays and features across science, food, and sports are worth a read.

Let’s go down to the woods today … with a reading list all about trees.

“You could actually restore a species to be even more diverse and healthier than it was before, Church says. “You can include diversity from multiple points in the globe and multiple points in time.””

“Instead of swiping, the strategy is wiping: namely, one’s perspiration onto a cotton pad.”

Campaigners want circus elephants placed in specially built sanctuaries. But their owners insist being separated from their human “families” would be traumatic.

“Peering in, I see that last week’s eggs are now chicks. Tiny bright-yellow beaks, mouths opening and closing silently. This is the magic.”

“My favorite moment came in the years when my ǧáǧṃ́p would nod to himself and make the official pronouncement: “It’s going to be a good year for salmon.” In that moment, we felt like little harbingers of hope.”

“David believes that the men who come to the farm are able to connect deeply with the animals and the natural world, in part because of the way that society has dismissed them.”

Whose nervous system is stretched out in a glass case at Drexel University’s medical campus?

On the wonders and benefits of natural relationships and what happens when humans meddle with the delicate balance between species.

“The dogs knew the routine: settle down and relax so that the women could cut away their white tresses, shearing the dogs as closely as shearers do sheep.”

“Maybe walking into some marshes, and deciding at an undetermined future point to stop walking, was what was available to the Romantics, but I think we can do better.”

The quest to save the American chestnut tree.

“Black waves bring animals to the town’s shore. Sticky corpses float on the oil.”

“Working in concert with the perfect breasts, the perfect bottom turns the body into the shape of an S. ‘It’s the classic hourglass figure,’ said Melissa. ‘That’s what you go after.'”

The elusive bear is a thing of fascination, and writers have a lot to say about them.

How scientists developed a COVID-19 vaccine in record time.

“He covers his face with his hands. He doesn’t cry. He hasn’t really cried for eight years – since he started with testosterone injections.”

Harvesting rice from the sea? This Spanish chef dreams big.

“But in ‘speaking around’ that injury, I was apparently projecting a new personality into the world: a more monotone, less enthusiastic, less engaged personality.”

“She and her five housemates needed to find a way to live safely together. So they decided to adhere to a collective risk model of their own design.”

“Though the team didn’t find the metal library, Armstrong put the adventure ‘up there with the moon landing.'”

Could shrunken heads from the Amazon hold the key to curing cancer?

“Daily treks in silence are an effective way to get anyone to reflect on their lives and consider what’s really important.”

“Leung says a “misalignment with nature” in building design is partly to blame for our scourge of chronic diseases and the current pandemic.”