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The best American science and nature writing 2022 / edited and with an introduction by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson ; Jaime Green, series editor.

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Mariner Books, 2022.

508.05 B561 2022

Science -- Literary collections.

Nature -- Literary collections.

Best American series.

9780358615293 (pbk.)

xx, 308 p. ; 21 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-308).

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

Presents a collection of nature and science essays published in American periodicals in the previous year, including works by such authors as Julia Rosen, Kashmir Hill, and Lucy Sherriff.

Johnson, Ayana Elizabeth.

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