An essayist hikes through an ancient seabed in the Huachuca Mountains, surveying the status of her relationships and of a rare but resilient desert flower.
Documenting an endangered American eel population in the Muhheakantuck River, a professor of natural history sees our own biology mirrored in the evolution, migration, and sexuality of these slinky ocean dwellers.
Under the waves of a storm off the Galápagos Islands, a biology student confronts her childhood fear of and fascination with the ocean, exploring the legacies of exclusion that have denied Black people in the United States access to swimming.
A traveling scholar looks to wasps, jaguars, coyotes, bobcats, and owls for a sense of wild recognition, contemplating the mixed consequences of how nature observes itself.
In her first postpartum weeks, a writer sheds embarrassment while becoming acquainted with her body’s new demands, leaning into a newly discovered liberation.