Life on Sonsorol revolves around the reefs, and the children’s play teaches them many important skills.  Viewed from ...

What was your last memorable animal encounter? As I watched a group of mountain gorillas in Rwanda, a huge male crashed through the bamboo grove and sat down right beside me. He leaned his immense ...

Photographer and National Geographic Explorer Kiliii Yüyan brings to life stories from the Arctic sea ice, beneath the waves, ...

IT’S THE BLUE OF HOT METAL against the damp blue of sky, a flutter in the white pine, a bright tatter high up. When it ...

Damn, almost blew right past you. Inexcusable. Sacrilegious. Thanks for helping me extract my head, if only briefly, from my own ass. I need all the help I can get. Mind if I drop to hands and knees ...

Rebecca Kneale Gould is the author of At Home in Nature: Modern Homesteading and Spiritual Practice in America, and a former board member of (the now defunct) Timeday ...

THE FIRST MEMORY OF MY LIFE is suffused with Black art. I was young, three perhaps, and I was standing on a balcony in an airport, en route from California to visit family in Mississippi; an adult I ...

SPANNING THE MILES between Texas and Vermont, long-time friends Alison Kafer and Eli Clare sat down and shared a conversation about Eli’s new book Unfurl. ELI: I’m excited for many reasons to be in ...

AFTER ABOUT A YEAR AND A HALF of dating, Sam and I decided he should move into my house. We had each lived with partners before, but those moves had been swayed by financial stress and global ...

A PHOTO OF A REDWOOD’S muscular, six-hundred-year-old base. To the left a fun-sized woman, in the Bay Area only briefly and wanting to make the most of it, trying to hug the tree’s ancient girth. She ...

THE FIRST SOUND IN the universe is joylessly underwhelming: white noise boring through the taffy-stretch of nascent space. The big bang is not a bang but a droning robotic purr, galaxies expanding ...