The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2024

Bill McKibben, Jaime Green

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HarperCollins
05 December 2024

Literary essays; Science: general issues; The natural world, country life & pets

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

By: Bill McKibben, Jaime Green
Imprint: HarperCollins
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 210mm, Width: 140mm, Spine: 19mm
Weight: 263g
ISBN: 9780063333994
ISBN 10: 0063333996
Pages: 336
Publication Date: 05 December 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Jaime Green, series editor, is a freelance writer and editor. She is the associate editor of Future Tense, a partnership of Slate, New America, and Arizona State University. Her first book, about how we imagine alien life in science and in fiction, will be published in 2023.

Reviews for The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2024

""Environmentalist McKibben (The Flag, the Cross, and the Station Wagon) selected 23 pieces of the best science and nature essays from 2023, many of them encompassing climate change. . . .Readers who enjoy educating themselves through intelligent, in-depth reporting on science and nature topics will relish this collection."" — Library Journal