TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO, Julian Hoffman and his wife, Julia, decided to pack up their busy London lives and move to a place they’d never seen: a remote village near the shores of a wild lake in the ...

Ponderosa is the tree equivalent of a big yellow lab waiting on the front porch, eager to welcome you home at the end of a ...

Julian Brave Noisecat is a writer, filmmaker, powwow dancer, student of Salish art and history, and author of We Survived the ...

HE IS HUNCHED DOWN feeding on the carcass of a newly dead bison by the northeast shore of Yellowstone Lake. He eats methodically, gratefully, his muzzle smeared with blood, his forearms and ruff ...

AFTER ABOUT A YEAR AND A HALF of dating, Sam and I decided he should move into my house. We had each lived with partners before, but those moves had been swayed by financial stress and global ...

ON A MID-AUGUST SUNDAY in that bleak pandemic summer of 2020, the air near central California’s Big Basin Redwoods State Park felt muggy, almost tropical. Weird, thought naturalist Christian Schwarz, ...

THE CHICKEN WAS UNWELL. She no longer ran to the summons of the leftovers pail to scratch at the compost heap with the other hens. Morning found her in a corner of the henhouse facing the wall, with ...

THE FIRST SOUND IN the universe is joylessly underwhelming: white noise boring through the taffy-stretch of nascent space. The big bang is not a bang but a droning robotic purr, galaxies expanding ...

adrienne maree brown has been on my radar for a while. As a thinker, activist, and teacher, she provides essential insights into how we relate to both human and natural ecosystems. Our conversation ...

I first encountered Robin Wall Kimmerer’s book, Braiding Sweetgrass, in the ecology section of my local bookstore. For Orion's Summer 2025 issue, we're celebrating fungus in all forms! Join the ...

I OWE MY CAREER to Robert Redford. The list of people who can say that is long, but not many of those work at environmental organizations. I first met Bob in fall 2003 at the dedication of The Robert ...

THE HISTORY OF the plastic carrier bag—the kind so often found caught on a tree branch and flagging in the wind—is a story of persuasion. But in the United States, the paper grocery bag proved far ...