The best American science and nature writing 2019
The best American series
Best American series.
A compassionate substance (from Lapham's Quarterly) / The search for alien life begins in earth's oldest desert (from The Atlantic) / Glimpses of a mass extinction in modern-day western New York (from The New Yorker) / This sand is your sand (from Outside) / The brain, reimagined (from Scientific American) / Little golden flower-room: on wild places and intimacy (from The Millions) / The endling: watching a species vanish in real time (from Pacific Standard) / What if the placebo effect is not a trick? (from The New York Times Magazine) / The great rhino U-turn (from Mongabay) / The fading star: a constellation (from Lapham's Quarterly) / Saving baby boy green (from Wired) / The fire at Eagle Creek (from Topic) / Deleting a species (from Pacific Standard) / The insect apocalypse is here (from The New York Times Magazine) / No heart, no moon (from The Southern Review) / The scientific detectives probing the secrets of ancient oracles (from Atlas Obscura) / Your really don't want to know what it's like to be a right whale these days (from Atlantic) / How extreme weather is shrinking the planet (from The New Yorker) / The story of a face (from The New Yorker) / How to not die in America (from Splinter) / Why paper jams persist (from The New Yorker) / The professor of horrible deeds (from The Chronicle of Higher Education) / Welcome to the center of the universe (from Longreads) / The hidden toll: why are black mothers and babies in the United States dying at more than double the rate of white mothers and babies? The answer has everything to do with the lived experience of being a black woman in America (from The New York Times Magazine) / When the next plague hits (from The Atlantic) / Paper trails: living and dying with fragmented medical records (from Undark)
Montgomery, Sy editor.
Boyle, Rebecca (Rebecca B.), author.
Brannen, Peter, 1983- author.
Goldfarb, Ben (Environmental journalist), author.
Greenberg, Gary, 1957 June 9- author.
Holland, Eva, 1982- author.
Jarvis, Brooke, 1981- author.
McKibben, Bill, author.
Mead, Rebecca, author.
Villarosa, Linda, author.
Yong, Ed, author.
Philip Ball -- Rebecca Boyle -- Peter Brannen -- Chris Colin -- Dougals Fox -- Conor Gearin -- Ben Goldfarb -- Gary Greenberg -- Jeremy Hance -- Holly Haworth -- Eva Holland -- Apricot Irving -- Rowan Jacobsen -- Brooke Jarvis -- Matt Jones -- Kevin Krajick -- J.B. MacKinnon -- Bill McKibben -- Rebecca Mead -- Molly Osberg -- Joshua Rothman -- Jordan Michael Smith -- Shannon Stirone -- Linda Vilarosa -- Ed Yong -- Ilana Yurkiewicz.
edited and with an introduction by Sy Montgomery ; Jaime Green, series editor.