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In which I resist naming the colonizer who named the tree ...

BLINKY BILL IS is his name, this marsupial turned environmental activist in bright red overalls patched at the knee: an ...

WITH THE MONARCH BUTTERFLY population declining by 90 percent in recent decades, efforts are underway to protect their ...

I walk into this new year with an abundance of gratitude and pride for the year that we have had and excitement for the year ...

This story won the 2025 Imagine 2200: Climate Fiction for Future Ancestors short story contest from Grist. Imagine 2200 celebrates stories that invite us to imagine the future we want — futures in ...

IN THE NEW YEAR, I came to where it was truly winter, on a train that passed the sunset and went on for a while longer, until out of the dark there was my station, a red shed by the snowy tracks and ...

ONCE I PAID ATTENTION TO IT, the plant appeared everywhere. Its foliage clouded our view of the river. Its vines tangled with my pumpkins, twisted around goldenrod, jewelweed, cow parsnip — in fact, ...

THE FRAGRANCE of the forest is unlike any I have ever known. The smell of ripening and rotting apples and pears fills my nostrils. At my feet, russet reds, blushing pinks, vibrant roses, and creamy ...

Thinking about activism sometimes calls to mind the metaphor of climbing mountains, or even climbing one particular mountain, with repeated assaults on it so continuous and steadfast that, over the ...

THE FIRST THINGS I SEE are the tails of the planes. They jut like hundreds of dorsal fins rising from prehistoric fish that have been lined up by a butcher on a massive table of thin brown grass. It ...