The best American science and nature writing 2017 /
edited and with an introduction by Hope Jahren ; Tim Folger, series editor.
- xx, 324 pages ; 22 cm.
- The best American series. .
- Best American series. .
"A Mariner original."
The art of saving relics / Altered tastes / The secrets of the wave pilots / The billion-year wave / The case for leaving city rats alone / The battle for Virunga / The new harpoon / A song of ice / Something uneasy in the Los Angeles air / Dark science / The parks of tomorrow / How factory farms play chicken with antibiotics / The invisible catastrophe / The devil is in the details / The physics pioneer who walked away from it all / The DIY scientist, the Olympian, and the mutated gene / Inside the breakthrough starshot mission to Alpha Centauri / He fell in love with his good student-- Then fired her for it / The woman who might find us another Earth / Out here, no one can hear you scream / The amateur cloud society that (sort of) rattled the scientific community / The man who gave himself away / Unfriendly climate / It's time these ancient women scientists get their due / Sarah Everts -- Maria Konnikova -- Kim Tingley -- Nicola Twilley -- Becca Cudmore -- Robert Draper -- Tom Kizzia -- Elizabeth Kolbert -- Adrian Glick Kudler -- Omar Mouallem -- Michelle Nijhuis -- Tom Philpott -- Nathaniel Rich -- Christopher Solomon -- Sally Davies -- David Epstein -- Ann Finkbeiner -- Azeen Ghorayshi -- Chris Jones -- Katrhryn Joyce -- Jon Mooallem -- Michael Regnier -- Sonia Smith -- Emily Temple-Wood.
Presents a collection of nature and science essays published in American periodicals in the previous year, including works by such authors as Sarah Everts, Nathaniel Rich, and Kathryn Joyce.