The writer and poet on reimagining rivers as living beings, the ecological crisis near and far and why copyright laws should protect nature

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Dearest Readers, Well here we are two years in. This issue represents some of the best of what we’ve become as a magazine — a place that prizes heart over technicality, a team who prizes the whole dy...

Robert Macfarlane explores an idea that changes the world – that a river is alive.

I published this in Orion Magazine in 2014, about the environmental activist Jo Anne Garrett of Baker, NV, who would've turned 100 on April 30th. I wanted to pay tribute to her by republishing this (s...

If three people are coming over for dinner, does that stress you out? What if it's 17? If you're giving a talk explaining your strategy to four people, does it feel like a high-risk event? What if it's 54? How many more people are required before it flips to stressful? Because the last person is just one person. If you're performing in an auditorium, there are still only thirty people you can see from the stage. N + 1 is just 1 more.

The Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa in northern Wisconsin has filed two legal challenges to protect water resources in the Bad River and coastal wetlands. The re-route of Line 5 would go thro...