We live in an age of climate emergency and eco-anxiety. This is, after all, the Anthropocene—a geological period defined by the bootprint of humans on Earth. Bearing witness to our place in the world ...

Wild swimming and forest bathing have gained in popularity, all in a bid to improve our health. With "green prescriptions" now being issued by doctors instructing patients to spend time outdoors, the ...

ON THE EVE of the French revolution in 1789, an English country clergyman quietly prepared for the printing of his book. Like many first-time authors on the eve of publication, he felt not triumph but ...

This Nature Writing Workshop Manual has been developed as a tool to assist facilitators and/or trainers in conducting workshops which link creative writing with nature. This Nature Writing Workshop ...

Cheers 2023 with a roundup of the year’s best science and nature essays. Read this collection with us this December. The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2023 brings together a range of topics ...

The tradition of the English nature writer is long, proud and distinctly genteel. Its origins lie with the pioneering 18th-century curate Gilbert White, writing from his inherited family home in ...

John Alec Baker’s The Peregrine is both a brutal and beautiful observation of this bird of prey, which at the time of publication in 1967, was close to extinction. Transcending both nature writing and ...

This spring, I didn't find any morels in the woods around my house. But I did find a lot of other things. Barbara Crooker enters the shades and brush strokes of daily life with such reverence that ...

I am a nature writer. I like to think that I have a fairly solid sort of relationship with the more-than-human world: I watch birds, I pick up frogs, I help my kids find beetles under logs. I think ...