| Description |
xx, 308 pages ; 21 cm. |
| Series |
Best American series.
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| Contents |
Nature is magnificent. The body's most embarrassing organ is an evolutionary marvel / Katherine J. Wu -- What slime knows / Lacy M. Johnson -- Too big for the universe / Arianna S. Long -- Heads up! The cardiovascular secrets of giraffes / Bob Holmes -- How far does wildlife roam? Ask the "internet of animals" / Sonia Shah -- Nature is roiled. Our summer from hell / Jeff Goodell -- How rising groundwater caused by climate change could devastate coastal communities / Kendra Pierre-Louis -- How we drained California dry / Mark Arax -- The climate solution actually adding millions of tons of CO2 into the atmosphere / Lisa Song and James Temple -- In the oceans, the volume is rising as never before / Sabrina Imbler -- The nature of plastics Meera Sabramanian -- Humans are a part of nature. -- Black bears, black liberation / Rae Wynn-Grant -- Finding freedom in the natural world / Cynthia R. Greenlee -- Humanity is flushing away one of life's essential elements / Julia Rosen -- Poisoned - Part 1: The factory / Corey G. Johnson, Rebecca Woolington, and Eli Murray -- Future moves / Yessenia Funes -- There's a clear fix to helping black communities fight pollution / Rachel Ramirez -- To be a field of poppies / Lisa Wells -- Ways of knowing. To hell with drowning / Julian Aguon -- To speak of the sea in Irish / Claudia Geib -- A tight-knit island nation hopes to rebuild while preserving "the barbudan way" / Mikki K. Harris -- Thriving together: salmon, berries, and people / Cuagilarkv (Jess Hausti) -- Your face is not your own / Kashmir Hill -- Quantum enlightenment / Ruth Robertson -- Futures we could have. Why combining farms and solar panels could transform how we produce both food and energy |/rChris Malloy -- A recipe for fighting climate change and feeding the world / Sarah Kaplan -- Power shift / Justine Calma -- Beavers are firefighters who work for free / Lucy Sherriff -- New wind projects power local budgets in Wyoming / Jane C. Hu -- Work from home, fave the planet? Ehhh / Emily Atkin -- In Amsterdam, a community of floating homes shows the world how to live alongside nature / Shira Rubin -- A river reawakened / Jessica Plumb -- There's a global plan to conserve nature. Indigenous people could lead the way / Somini Sengupta, Catrin Einhorn, and Manuela Andreoni. |
| Summary |
Presents a collection of nature and science essays published in American periodicals in the previous year, including works by such authors as Julia Rosen, Kashmir Hill, and Lucy Sherriff. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-308). |
| Subject |
Science -- Literary collections.
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Nature -- Literary collections.
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| Genre |
Essays.
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| Added Author |
Johnson, Ayana Elizabeth, editor.
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Wu, Katherine J.
Body's most embarrassing organ is an evolutionary marvel.
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Johnson, Lacy M., 1978-
What slime knows.
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Long, Arianna S.
Too big for the universe.
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Holmes, Bob (Evolutionary biologist).
Heads up!
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Shah, Sonia.
How far does wildlife roam?
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Goodell, Jeff.
Our summer from hell.
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Pierre-Louis, Kendra.
How rising groundwater caused by climate change could devastate coastal communities.
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Arax, Mark, 1956-
How we drained California dry.
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Song, Lisa.
Climate solution actually adding millions of tons of CO2 into the atmosphere.
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Imbler, Sabrina.
In the oceans, the volume is rising as never before.
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| Added Title |
Best American science and nature writing 2022 |
| ISBN |
9780358615293 pbk. |
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0358615291 pbk. |
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