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.