The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2024

The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2024By: Bill McKibben, Jaime Green Award winning environmentalist, author, and journalist Bill McKibben selects twenty science and nature essays that represent the best examples of the form published in the previous year. This was the most anomalous year (so far) in human history, guest editor Bill McKibben writes, the year in which the relationship between people and planet showed its most dramatic signs yet of unraveling. The selections in The Best

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