Naturalist at Large

April 2017

Adaptive Aesthetics

October 2015

A Matter of Degrees

Comparing the rewards of small-scale farming to those recounted by Thoreau

Forget the opium, savor the poppy flowers

Science has its rewards and punishments

November 2009

Discover gray whales in the isolated San Ignacio lagoon

A true but unlikely tale

Story and Photographs by William Rowan

Increasing day length on the early Earth boosted oxygen released by photosynthetic cyanobacteria.

Genomic evidence shows that Denisovans and modern humans may have overlapped in Wallacea.

Evapotranspiration is the largest source of water vapor in the Congo rainforest during the spring rainy season.