The Magazine of The Sierra Club
What Sparked the Megafauna Extinctions?
Ross D.E. MacPhee's new book tries to answer an ancient puzzle
Books
From Suburbia to the Wild and Everything in Between
A writer searches for meaning in a shifting American landscape
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Inside the Dark World of the Animal-Parts Market
Rachel Love Nuwer's "Poached" investigates the extinction business
Rocks Hold the Key to the History, and Future, of the Planet
A geologist digs for the story of Earth's evolution
Zen and the Art of Carbon Ideology
William T. Vollmann travels the globe investigating climate change
Best-selling Science Writer Charles Mann Has Always Been a Tinkerer
The author of "1491" and "The Wizard and the Prophet" on his passion for storytelling
John Wesley Powell and the "Great Unknown"
A raft of new books celebrate the 1869 Powell expedition
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In Review: The River of Lost Souls
Jonathan P. Thompson's new book investigates the Gold King Mine disaster
The World According to Things That Fly
"BirdNote" is packed with fun facts about all things winged and airborne
In Review: This Radical Land
Daegan Miller's new book traces the ecologies of American dissent
