The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Barton Gellman, Latria Graham, Teju Cole, Samuel Ashworth, and Shanna Baker.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Doug Bock Clark, Thomas Lake, Leslie Jamison, Paul Thompson, and Jude Isabella.
In Hot Pursuit of STS-50, High Seas Scofflaw By Krista Stevens Highlight What’s in the hold, captain? Oh nothing, just tonnes upon tonnes of illegal Chilean bass — nothing to see here!
Editor’s Roundtable: One of the Most Important Pieces of Our Time, Plus Rats and French Cooking (Podcast) By Longreads Commentary Longreads editors discuss stories in The New York Times Magazine, Eater, and Hakai Magazine.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Nikole Hannah-Jones and The New York Times Magazine Staff, Melissa del Bosque, Nitasha Tiku, Sarah Gilman, and Tift Merritt.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Caroline Chen, Keri Bertino, Ann Friedman, Allison Williams, and Brian Payton.
The Vital and Surprising Role of Driftwood By Krista Stevens Highlight Driftwood provides the necessary habitat and shelter that feeds a raft of marine life all the way up the food chain.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Julie K. Brown, Joe Sexton, Zeke Faux and Zachary R. Mider, Bruce Grierson, and Michael Hainey.
Karst: the Latest Casualty of Clear-Cut Logging By Krista Stevens Highlight “On Vancouver Island, karst researchers hustle to save one of Earth’s most underappreciated—and fragile—ecosystems: an ecosystem hidden in plain sight.”
Go, L’il Birb! The First Plover in Los Angeles in 70 Years By Krista Stevens Highlight Can humans coexist on the beaches of Santa Monica along with wildlife? A beach “rewilding” project aims to find out.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Donna Minkowitz, Stephen Rodrick, Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, Nadia Berenstein, and Shanna Baker.
On Saving the Cuban Crocodile from American Invasion By Krista Stevens Highlight “…female Cuban crocs, who might normally struggle to find a mate from their own small population, suddenly encounter exotic suitors of an appealing size and shenanigans ensue.”
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Jay Caspian Kang, Ryan Goldberg, Brendan I. Koerner, Andrew Richdale, and Ferris Jabr.
Corals and Crabs Get Moonstruck, Too By Ben Huberman Highlight For many marine species, moonlight is both aphrodisiac and metronome. Yet scientists have only recently started to study it seriously.
Want To See a Polar Bear? Just Follow the Bones By Michelle Weber Highlight In one Alaskan town, the bone pile is a bounty for hungry polar bears and enterprising tour guides.
Twilight of the Sawfish By Ben Huberman Highlight When a West African symbol vanishes, its loss is felt in the ocean — and on land.
How to Talk about the Weather Like a Newfoundlander By Ben Huberman Highlight In Canada’s most easterly province, volatile weather conditions and cultural isolation produced a fascinating vocabulary to describe the natural world.
