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If Nature Had Rights
Read an extract from the author’s book Wild Law. IT WAS THE SUDDEN RUSH of the goats’ bodies against the side of the boma that woke him. Picking up a spear Continue reading
The World As We Know It
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Serenading Belugas in the White Sea
Note: Gari Saarimaki created a short video of this journey… FINALLY SOME GOOD NEWS — someone is going to help me play music with whales instead of warning me that it’s Continue reading
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Fluid Values: Battles Over Water Rights
IN SPRINGTIME, THE KLAMATH BASIN, an intensively farmed enclave in the high desert along the Oregon-California border, can feel like a fruit-crate-label idyll brought to life. Lush, furrowed farms spread wide Continue reading
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Don Berto’s Garden
I WRITE THESE WORDS WHILE SITTING on the right bank of the Mopan River in far western Belize, beneath a tilted cot tree that droops over the water as if it Continue reading
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What’s the Use of Pets?
AS YOU GLIDE DOWN OVER central Florida into Orlando International Airport, the Earth glitters up at you as if strewn with diamonds. The lush, landscaped grounds of the airport are ringed, Continue reading