Daniel Pauly’s "Vanishing Fish" is an important collection of essays that evaluates the far-reaching effects of global fisheries. Assembling into one volume the numerous pieces he wrote over a twenty-plus year period, Pauly—a... Read More

One of the more startling facts Thomas Seeley, the Horace White Professor of Biology at Cornell University, cites in his comprehensive and essential "The Lives of Bees" is that “the honey bee provides nearly half of all crop... Read More

The noble Pacific salmon—born in freshwater, coming of age in the ocean, back to streams and rivers to spawn and die—is so integral to the Alaskan psyche as to be family. In the broad expanses of our forty-ninth state, the return of... Read More

A study in living at a slower pace, Anna Potter’s gorgeous coffee table guide "The Flower Fix" uses floral arrangements to revive interiors and soothe the spirit. Potter takes an instinctive, organic approach that encourages... Read More

Drew Harvell’s "Ocean Outbreak" is an engaging, eye-opening report on the diseases affecting the health of the ocean. The world’s warming waters precipitate marine disease, and Harvell—relying on her own knowledge and timely... Read More

In Leslie Carol Roberts’s pensive collection of environmentally-oriented essays, the author asks “what is a walk in a forest if not a chance to fully and deeply celebrate the sauntering and reflective mind?” Roberts’s walking... Read More

Underlying Cassandra Kircher’s intimate and moving essays on nature, family, and adventures in the wild there are secrets: of a beloved father whose silences and rages marked her childhood; of the people who traveled to the mountains,... Read More

We see them around us every day: crows gathering, bees buzzing, cats prowling. Animals, including humans, are always on the move. And whether their moving takes them on a global journey or just around the corner, finding their way there... Read More