Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-308).
The body's most embarrassing organ is an evolutionary marvel / What slime knows / Too big for the universe / Heads up! The cardiovascular secrets of giraffes / How far does wildlife roam? Ask the "internet of animals" / Our summer from hell / How rising groundwater caused by climate change could devastate coastal communities / How we drained California dry / The climate solution actually adding millions of tons of CO2 into the atmosphere / The nature of plastics / Humans are a part of nature. Black bears, black liberation / Finding freedom in the natural world / Humanity is flushing away one of life's essential elements / Poisoned-- Part 1: The factory / Future moves / There's a clear fix to helping black communities fight pollution / To be a field of poppies / Ways of knowing. To hell with drowning / To speak of the sea in Irish / A tight-knit island nation hopes to rebuild while preserving "the barbudan way" / Thriving together: salmon, berries, and people / Your face is not your own / Quantum enlightenment / Why combining farms and solar panels could transform how we produce both food and energy / A recipe for fighting climate change and feeding the world / Power shift / Beavers are firefighters who work for free / New wind projects power local budgets in Wyoming / Work from home, fave the planet? Ehhh / In Amsterdam, a community of floating homes shows the world how to live alongside nature / A river reawakened / There's a global plan to conserve nature. Indigenous people could lead the way / Katherine J. Wu -- Lacy M. Johnson -- Arianna S. Long -- Bob Holmes -- Sonia Shah -- Jeff Goodell -- Kendra Pierre-Louis -- Mark Arax -- Lisa Song and James Temple ; Sabrina Imbler -- Meera Sabramanian -- Rae Wynn-Grant -- Cynthia R. Greenlee -- Julia Rosen -- Corey G. Johnson, Rebecca Woolington, and Eli Murray -- Yessenia Funes -- Rachel Ramirez -- Lisa Wells -- Julian Aguon -- Claudia Geib -- Mikki K. Harris -- Cuagilarkv (Jess Hausti) -- Kashmir Hill -- Ruth Robertson -- Chris Malloy -- Sarah Kaplan -- Justine Calma -- Lucy Sherriff -- Jane C. Hu -- Emily Atkin -- Shira Rubin -- Jessica Plumb -- Somini Sengupta, Catrin Einhorn, and Manuela Andreoni. Nature is magnificent. Nature is roiled. In the oceans, the volume is rising as never before / Futures we could have.
"[T]his collection [is] expertly reported and deeply feld, exploring the magnificence of nature, the expansion of knowledge, and the possibilities of our future. From an essay abou the sanctity of slime molds, to the untold sotry of a Black enslaved man becoming an expert in black bears to a version for th efuture that combines farms and solar panels to incredible effect, this collection is a sharp, surprisign, and informative window into our world." --back cover.