It may feel like extinction stories dominate the discourse, but environmental philosopher Christopher J. Preston elects to focus on positive trajectories in "Tenacious Beasts", a heartening roster of rewilding projects and spontaneous... Read More

Marveling at Earth’s tiny creatures who evolved over millions of years, this informative picture book shrinks its perspective down to penny-size and traipses through the world of insects—some of whom crawl across the dirt; some of... Read More

Woylies, jerboas, and other creatures populate Tracey Hecht’s winsome Nocturnals companion The Nocturnals Explore: Unique Adaptations of Nighttime Animals. Dawn, a red fox, invites her friends Tobin the pangolin and Bismark the sugar... Read More

In 2013, Indigenous botanist Robin Wall Kimmerer released the bestselling Braiding Sweetgrass, a blend of scientific study and memoir that proposed complementing Western ecological ideas with Indigenous ideologies and practices. Monique... Read More

Amy-Jane Beer’s memoir "The Flow" is about the drowning of a friend and how it almost destroyed her love for rivers. In 2012, Beer’s friend group set out on a New Year’s Day kayaking trip. One friend, Kate, never came home. For... Read More

Esther Woolfson’s "Between Light and Storm" contemplates the eons-long interaction between human beings and animals. It questions what the belief that humans are superior to all other living beings has done to bring on the multiple... Read More

In "Chasing Plants", botanist Chris Thorogood shares how his lifelong obsession with plants led him to precarious situations in far-flung places to find them, no matter what it took. Thorogood sketched and scribbled his way around the... Read More

In the luminous essays of Priyanka Kumar’s "Conversations with Birds", birds are a portal to reclaiming childhood connections with nature and the lush, wild landscape of northern India’s remote mountains. Torn from her roots by a... Read More