Next time you are touring your garden, walking on wooded trails, or exploring a beachside scenery, look for immaculate swirling patterns. These can be found in the center of a sunflower, a snail’s ...

Even in today’s high-tech world, nature still manages to terrify and confuse scientists. From glowing oceans and eerie sky lights to rivers that boil and sounds that have no source, these natural ...

When I heard what Yiyun Li’s new book, “Things in Nature Merely Grow,” was about, my first thought was that I could never read it. The book was written in the aftermath of the suicide of her son James ...

In “Things in Nature Merely Grow,” Yiyun Li writes from a terrain no one chooses to map. Her spare memoir confronts the suicide of her younger son James in 2024, six years and four months after her ...

“Call it a combination of keen attention and ‘a profound indifference’ (to borrow Camus’s words) or a combination of intense emotion and an equally intense apathy. The fact is, there is no word for ...

Do the parts of nature have spirits or spiritual energies? According to a Pew Research Center survey, nearly half of U.S. adults say they believe that parts of nature — such as mountains, rivers or ...

A proposal before the Securities and Exchange Commission would allow the New York Stock Exchange to list companies with missions to improve ecosystems. Investors could soon buy into companies trading ...