Chasing Spring follows nature’s season of renewal even as it shows how the delicate mechanisms of spring are increasingly endangered by climate change. With mortality …
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Chasing Spring
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Theories for Everything
Theories for Everything highlights the rich, compelling stories behind science’s greatest discoveries and the minds and methods that made them possible. Authoritative, entertaining, and easy …
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Natural Lives, Modern Times
The Delaware River flows out of New York’s Catskill Mountains and winds its way through woodland and rural farmland, through the great Water Gap ravine, …
Creature of the Deep
It’s been around since the dinosaurs, but it may now be close to extinction. What can we do to save the amazing sturgeon? My first …
Walking With Wordsworth: Visiting England’s Lake District
“A WILD SCENE OF CRAG AND MOUNTAIN,” THE ROUGHLY THOUSAND SQUARE MILES THAT COMPRISE ENGLAND’S LAKE DISTRICT INSPIRED THE IDEALS OF THE ROMANTIC ERA AND …
Transylvania: Welcome to the Future
A dictator wanted to raze it with bulldozers. Investors wanted to turn it into a theme park called Draculaland. In a forgotten pocket of Central …
Self-Nonmedication
Seven years ago, not long after my father died, with my editing job lost, my finances frail, my 26-year marriage failing, a child in college …
Megadeath in Mexico
Epidemics followed the Spanish arrival in the New World, but the worst killer may have been a shadowy native—a killer that could still be out …
Rogue Waves
the physics of pure hell at sea by bruce stutz Alfred Osborne’s style is not to do one thing at a time. At the moment …
Canada Day in Ottawa-Gatineau
MY FIRST CANADA DAY! Bonjour! Bonne fête du Canada! Please pardon my French, for I’m from New York City, where we pretend to all speak …
Lisbon Lights Up
Europe’s cradle of discoverers, where the days last all night long, emerges as a city to be discovered. Bruce Stutz finds global style energizing an …
Endless Summer
There are more ways to have fun in the Keys than there are Keys. Biking, diving, and kayaking, Bruce Stutz joins the playful land and …
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