Best American series

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

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 -- 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 -- 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 -- Nature of plastics / Meera Subramanian -- 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 I: 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 -- 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 / 'Cúagilákv (Jess H̓áust̓i) -- Your face is not your own / Kashmir Hill -- Quantum enlightenment / Ruth Robertson -- Why combining farms and solar panels could transform how we procude 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, save 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