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A deeply moving collection of personal essays from John Green, the author of The Fault in Our Stars and Turtles All the Way Down. Read more

Packed with educational prompts and activities, this fourth book in the Backpack Explorer series encourages junior naturalists to spot insects while on a walk in the woods, playing in a park, or searching right outside their front door. Read more

Encompassing identity, inspiration, ancestry, and stewardship, the essays and poems by leading Black women and nonbinary scientists explore how experiences in the natural world and life sciences shape the self. Edited by Shaz Zamore and Amber Wendler Read more

Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, renowned marine biologist and co-founder of the All We Can Save climate initiative, compiles the best science and nature writing of the year.  Read more

The Ultra-Wealthy and the Remaking of the American West.
A revealing look at the intersection of wealth, philanthropy, and conservation.
By Justin Farrell Read more

An autobiography of Rodney Stotts sharing his unlikely journey in becoming a conservationist and one of America's few Black master falconers. Read more

A soulful collection of illuminating essays and interviews that explore Black people's spiritual and scientific connection to the land, waters, and climate, curated by the acclaimed author of Farming While Black. Read more

Borealis is a shapeshifting logbook of Aisha Sabatini Sloan's experiences moving through the Alaskan outdoors. An essay on glaciers, queer relationships, political anxiety, and the meaning of blackness in open space. Read more

As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, she embraces the notion that plants and animals are our oldest teachers. Read more

From Margaret Renkl, the beloved New York Times opinion writer and bestselling author of Late Migrations, comes a “howling love letter to the world” (Ann Patchett): a luminous book that traces the passing of seasons, personal and natural. Read more

“Birds are my almanac. They tune me into the seasons, and into myself.” So begins this lively collection of essays by acclaimed filmmaker and novelist Priyanka Kumar. Read more

By Shayda Kafai. The remarkable story of Sins Invalid, a performance project that centers queer disability justice. Read more

An astonishing and ethereal account of one man’s quest to immerse himself in nature and live with wild deer. Read more

This posthumously published collection of essays by nature writer Barry Lopez reveals an exceptional life and mind . Read more

At once a cri de coeur and a memoir of both pain and wonder, this remarkable collection of essays adds indelibly to Barry Lopez’s legacy, and includes previously unpublished works, some written in the months before his death. Read more