Essays and articles

For some, thinking is writing, and here we showcase big questions and ideas that focus on the relationships between nature and humans.

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Living Things Are Not Machines (Also, They Totally Are) by Michael Levin
Noema Magazine
18 March 2025

How To Build A Thousand-Year-Old Tree by Matthew Ponsford
Noema Magazine
6 March 2025

Inside the Fight to Save the World’s Most Endangered Wolf by Lindsey Liles
Garden & Gun
5 March 2025

Why AI Is A Philosophical Rupture by Tobias Rees
Noema Magazine
4 February 2025

The Languages Lost To Climate Change by Julia Webster Ayuso
Noema Magazine
25 January 2025

The rise of plant poaching: how a craze for succulents is driving a new illegal trade by Monica Mark, Financial Times
25 January 2025

Do Our Dogs Have Something to Tell the World? by Camille Bromley, New York Times
6 January 2025

Do insects feel pain? by Shayla Love, The New Yorker
5 January 2025

The Elephantine Memories of Food-Caching Birds by Matthew Hutson, The New Yorker
29 December 2024

Loud, angry, and Indigenous: Heavy metal takes on colonialism and climate change by Taylar Dawn Stagner
Grist
23 December 2024

This ocean wave has rights by Kristen French, Nautilus
16 December 2024

The Secret Sex Lives of Deep, Dark Corals by Christian Elliott, Hakai Magazine
November 27, 2024

The Entangled Garden by Richard Mabey, Noema
November 21, 2024

Our Sea of Islands by Epeli Hau’ofa, The Contemporary Pacific
Vol. 6, No. 1 (SPRING 1994), pp. 148-161 (14 pages)

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