Category: Environment/Nature/Ag

February 3, 2026

The Beast in the Clouds by Nathalie Holt *** (of 4)

The year is 1929. America’s large museums are filling out their exhibits with mysterious animals delivered from the remotest parts of the world. There are sporadic reports that the last large mammal, a Panda bear, might exist. Or might be as mythological as a Yeti. Two sons of former president Theodore Roosevelt, Kermit and Ted […]

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December 4, 2025

So Far Gone by Jess Walter **** (of 4)

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Rhys Kinnick, a cantankerous, retired, environmental journalist, fed up with the world, and especially his son-in-law, leaves society behind to live off the grid in...

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August 20, 2025

I Contain Multitudes by Ed Yong ** (of 4)

Ed Yong has an innate ability to take exceptionally interesting topics and drill into them so deeply and with such enthusiasm and lack of direction...

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May 5, 2025

Eating Invasive Weeds: New On-line Exhibit

The Museum of Food and Culture Launches Virtual Exhibit on Eating Invasive Weeds and Food Sovereignty Katherine Hoehl and I worked on this exhibit for...

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March 18, 2025

A Walk in the Park by Kevin Fedarko **** (of 4)

Kevin Fedarko, a native of the degraded coal mining towns near Pittsburgh, and his best friend, photographer, Pete McBride, walk the 750-mile length of the...

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January 16, 2025

What the Chicken Knows by Sy Montgomery *** (of 4)

The more I learn about animal cognition, the more I realize how ignorant I have been. (I recently read an article, for example, strongly suggesting...

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December 15, 2024

A Childhood by Harry Crews **** (of 4)

Published in 1978 and reissued in 2022, Harry Crews, an American novelist recounts the first five years of his life. He grew up in south...

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December 13, 2024

Creation Lake ** (of 4) by Rachel Kushner

A left-wing philosopher advocates that it is time for humanity to returning to nature, but sends his diatribes via e-mail. Acolytes reading his emails in...

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October 1, 2024

The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese **** (of 4)

In the fictional riverside town of Parambil, in Kerala, India, 12-year-old Big Ammachi is taken from her home at the beginning of the 20th century...

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January 26, 2024

Fire Weather by John Vaillant **** (of 4)

Just as every year is now the hottest on record, so too the number and intensity of wildfires across the planet break annual records for...

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