The Best American Science and Nature ..., Bill McKibben
The Best American Science and Nature ..., Bill McKibben
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The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2024

Author: Bill McKibben, Jaime Green

Narrator: Eileen Stevens, Stephen Graybill, Lee Osorio, Gina Daniels

Unabridged: 14 hr 14 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Mariner Books

Published: 10/22/2024

Synopsis

Award-winning environmentalist, author, and journalist Bill McKibben selects twenty science and nature essays that represent the best examples of the form published in the previous year.“This was the most anomalous year (so far) in human history,” guest editor Bill McKibben writes, “the year in which the relationship between people and planet showed its most dramatic signs yet of unraveling.” The selections in The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2024 reveal a trying year for our planet—from the Lahaina wildfire tragedy to the lush Amazon jungle slowly turning to savanna—while also celebrating the earth’s beautiful and mysterious ways—from the largest beaver dam on earth to the heroic innovation to prevent birds from crashing into Chicago’s expanse of glass buildings. These essays offer solace in trying times, showing a way for a better future. They are, as McKibben says, “a reminder that this world is still a lovely and deep place, well worth the fighting for.”The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2024 includes IAN FRAZIER • AMANDA GEFTER • DOUGLAS FOX • SARAH KAPLAN • BEN GOLDFARB • RAYMOND ZHONG • ALEX CUADROS • AND OTHERS

About Bill McKibben

Bill McKibben is the author of more than a dozen books, including the bestsellers Falter, Deep Economy, and The End of Nature, which was the first book to warn the general public about the climate crisis. He is also the Schumann Distinguished Scholar in Environmental Studies at Middlebury College and the winner of the Gandhi Prize, the Thomas Merton Prize, and the Right Livelihood Prize, sometimes called “the alternate Nobel.”

About Jaime Green

Jaime Green, series editor, is a science writer and essayist. Her work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, Aeon, Slate, The Nation, The New York Times Book Review, Astrobites, and elsewhere. She is the author of The Possibility of Life: Science, Imagination, and Our Quest for Kinship in the Cosmos.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Brenna on April 01, 2025

Will no longer be reading BASS (short stories), and instead will only be reading this science collection. Reading about the Lahaina fire right after the LA fires was especially revelatory 😭......more

Goodreads review by Emma on January 29, 2025

Obviously not a traditional and sequentially told story, but an artfully composed collection of essays from 2023. Beautiful. How many more adjectives can I use? Thoughtful, delightful, inspiring, captivating, at times terrifying but at other times hopeful. (Actually, a lot of terrifying— this is, af......more

Goodreads review by Niklas Braun on December 27, 2024

truly loved this collection. I really like the articles on rewilding and discussions around animal habitats and populations in the era of climate crisis.......more

Goodreads review by Cat on September 03, 2024

Very compelling book. The articles were well written and argued and covered quite a range of environmental topics. It's a hard book to put down once started. I have to say, though, that my personal favorites are ones I've tried to do something about. The first was City of Glass. Meant to try and sto......more

Goodreads review by Elot on March 06, 2025

This is a book solely summing many different articles in 2023 that the editor wanted to platform. I love the concept of appreciating great written articles as more pieces of art, and the topics of science and nature blend really well together- themes of climate change, ecological protection, and nat......more

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