So when I published an essay during the summer of Barbenheimer that braided my nuclear obsession with my past grief, ...

An interesting thing about your book is how you blend your role as a scientist with your role as a policymaker. You write about it not in a dry, college textbook-y way, but as a person, and as a ...

HEADING NORTH, FOLLOWING THE tang of boggy rivers and the sweetness of pines on the air, I like to imagine that I could smell my way home, like a salmon navigating to its natal stream. Closer and ...

ON A MID-AUGUST SUNDAY in that bleak pandemic summer of 2020, the air near central California’s Big Basin Redwoods State Park felt muggy, almost tropical. Weird, thought naturalist Christian Schwarz, ...

I HAD THE AMAZING EXPERIENCE, in preparing for this conversation, of getting to read these authors’ works all at once—Merlin Sheldrake, Jeff VanderMeer, and Kaitlin Smith. I hope it’s not ...

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 ...

THE CHICKEN WAS UNWELL. She no longer ran to the summons of the leftovers pail to scratch at the compost heap with the other hens. Morning found her in a corner of the henhouse facing the wall, with ...

The Course: How to Make Luck: Writing in Praise of the Ordinary With so many things to worry over, we need to keep finding joy and celebrating gratitude.

I first encountered Robin Wall Kimmerer’s book, Braiding Sweetgrass, in the ecology section of my local bookstore. For Orion's Summer 2025 issue, we're celebrating fungus in all forms! Join the ...

IN OUR FREE TIME, WE DESTROY TREES. Hundreds of them by now. Five years ago, soon after I bought the place, I gave my partner a Husqvarna 450 Rancher for Christmas. Since then, he’s had to replace the ...

THE HISTORY OF the plastic carrier bag—the kind so often found caught on a tree branch and flagging in the wind—is a story of persuasion. But in the United States, the paper grocery bag proved far ...