Stirring Moss

Dillenius identified several mosses and fungi, under the heading Cryptogams, denoting plants that reproduce via spores...
Read MorePine martens retreated to the rocky crags of Snowdonia and the Lake District…

There was a time after the last Ice Age when pine martens thrived all across the British Isles...
Read MoreWonderful Schrebergartens

Through the plague year, nature has been the only permitted escape: the parks, the hikes...
Read MoreConservation of Conservation

The book runs the gamut of conservation techniques: specimen collection and field research, zoos and nature preserves, assisted colonization, and de-extinction via genetic rescue...
Read MoreExtraordinary Winter

Beginning in December 1917, a powerful series of unrelenting and formidable ice storms and blizzards wreaked havoc across the United States...
Read MoreForest Knowledge; Mountain Faith

Deep inside the fractured forests that still ring the mountain, a hallowed sense of wonder persists...
Read MoreChina’s REE Monopoly

The most infamous mine in China is Bayan-Obo, the largest REE mine in the world. Even more infamous than the mine itself is the tailing pond it has produced...
Read MoreNow Quite Retired

The soapwort gentian now. In an old pasture, now grown up to birches and other trees, followed the cow-paths to the old apple trees...
Read MoreThe tea should be strong. For a pot holding a quart, if you are going to fill it nearly to the brim, six heaped teaspoons would be about right...
Read MoreThe thing about new blooms is that they tend to bleed— / Those petals birthed / hugging close / that come warmer weather are tricked into jumping away...
Read MoreI spent a good part of my childhood at home staring outside my bedroom window, following the trail of planes approaching the nearby Paris airport in the sky from my banlieue. I envied the passengers...
Read MoreThe tea should be strong. For a pot holding a quart, if you are going to fill it nearly to the brim, six heaped teaspoons would be about right...
Read MoreThe thing about new blooms is that they tend to bleed— / Those petals birthed / hugging close / that come warmer weather are tricked into jumping away...
Read MoreI spent a good part of my childhood at home staring outside my bedroom window, following the trail of planes approaching the nearby Paris airport in the sky from my banlieue. I envied the passengers...
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