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A woman in a field records audio of two large cows.

Ever Wonder How Cows Co-moo-nicate?

Cut grass

Here’s What Freshly Cut Grass Is Saying With Its Scent

Story collections on the Reasons to be Cheerful website.

David Byrne’s Reasons to Be Cheerful Cheers Us Up

A bundle of vetiver on a white background.

Why Vetiver Is Our Favorite Botanical Right Now

Five dye pots with colored fabrics inside them.

The Terroir of Natural Color Dyes

A close-up photo of the sun's golden surface.

What the Sun’s Molten Surface Looks Like

An illustration from Night Sky featuring the Virgo constellation.

This App Brings the Cosmos into Your Pocket

A hand pours a bottle of red wine into a wine glass on a green background.

How Sommeliers Use Scent to Discern a Wine’s Complex Notes

Manufactum's seed pot press next to a seedling.

The Perfect Press for Making D.I.Y. Seed Pots

Courtesy Chelsea Green Publishing

Hannah Lewis on the Burgeoning “Mini-Forest Revolution”

Bottles of the "I'm Outside" Mist

This Body Mist Captures the Benefits of Forest Bathing in a Bottle

“The Great Animal Orchestra” exhibition at the Peabody Essex Museum

Bernie Krause and United Visual Artists Translate Nature’s Sonic Landscapes Into an Emotive Spectacle

A map of the world with red dots and forms drawn over it.

Rem Koolhaas Brings the Country to the City With a Guggenheim Show

Snowy landscape

Why the World Gets Quieter When It Snows

Weed joint

The Chemistry Behind Marijuana’s Skunky Scent

J. Pierpont Morgan’s Library, viewed from 36th Street. (Photo: Brett Beyer. Courtesy the Morgan Library & Museum, New York)

At the Morgan Library, a Long-Overlooked Garden Gets a New Life

Two hands cupping a dorodango mud ball.

The Joyful Japanese Art of Making Mud Balls

Cover of the For the Birds project by the National Audubon Society

The Avian-Toned Tracks That Helped Spur a Birdsong Initiative

A bottle of Floris Bespoke on a white background.

Book a Scent Consultation With This 300-Year-Old Fragrance House

Moya Andrews. (Courtesy Indiana Public Media)

An Enchanting Short-Form Podcast That Gets to the Root of Gardening

Ecologist Carole Collet. (Photo: Misha Haller)

What the Fashion Industry Can Learn From Biology

Baratunde Thurston at the Badwater Basin in California’s Death Valley National Park. (Courtesy Twin Cities PBS/Part2 Pictures)

Baratunde Thurston Wants to Activate Your Inner Outdoor Adventurer

A white Vermicular oven pot in sunlight.

These Lightweight Cast-Iron Pots and Pans Bring an Age-Old Craft Into the Modern Age

A closeup of two green leaves.

Renowned Perfumer Jean-Marc Chaillan’s Patchouli Obsession

A piece of Monique Péan's jewelry.

Jewelry Designer Monique Péan Creates a Feat of Meteoric Proportions, Literally

A purple and gold canister of House of Waris Night of Nights tea.

Waris Ahluwalia on His Buzzy New Tea Brand

A single red rose on a white background.

Why Roses Are Synonymous With Love

Snow-capped pine trees in Lapland, Finland. (Photo: Vincent Guth Vingtcent)

Fall Asleep to the Ambient White Noise of Nature, Captured From Sites Around the World

An assortment of colorful Claus Porto soaps on their white box.

Take a Vacation With These Soaps

A forest of pine trees in the snow on a mountain.

How to Bring the Scent of Pine Home Without Uprooting a Tree

The red cover of the book Smellosophy.

Historian Ann-Sophie Barwich on Why Smell Remains the Most Mysterious Sense

Le Bernardin’s apricot sorbet and chamomile ice cream, infused with Nature’s Fynd dairy-free cream cheese. (Courtesy Nature’s Fynd)

A Microscopic Fungus From Yellowstone’s Hot Springs Is Spurring a New Culinary Movement

Mycologist Giuliana Furci

How Fungi Can Save the World

The covers of four new books on the climate crisis.

Four New Must-Reads on the Climate Crisis

Gyokuro tea in a small red teapot.

Tea Expert Micah Spear’s Gyokuro Infatuation

A grid of multicolored flowers on a black block.

The Scentless Eternal Flowers Made by Japanese Artist Makoto Azuma

Editions of animal photos on Andrew Zuckerman's website.

Andrew Zuckerman’s Exquisite Pictures of the Natural World, Newly Editioned

Our New At a Distance Podcast Takes a Good Look at the Big Picture

Two Grounded Packaging "stand up pouches" in black and white.

This Australian Company Aims to Make Packaging Easy—and Actually Sustainable

Ricotta on a carving board with a cheese grater and two pieces of okra.

Make Homemade Ricotta With This Simple Two-Ingredient Solution

Orange and red hot sauces, unlabeled.

How a California Entrepreneur Is Profoundly Fixing Food Waste

Pink and purple flowers in a window display.

How to Pick a Potent Flower Arrangement

An Adam Fuss fungus photogram.

How Mushrooms Have Proliferated as a Material for Art-Making

A dew-covered white and pink rose.

Author and Curator Peter Kukielski on the Wonders of Roses in Bloom

Autumn trees viewed from above.

The Sweet, Sweet Scent of Fall, Explained

Illustration of a tree with leaves next to a tree without leaves

The Natural World, in Book Form

Gordon Hempton. (Photo: Cameron Karsten)

Gordon Hempton’s Incredible Campaign for Quiet

A photo of a newborn on its mother's chest.

The Unflappable Olfactory Bond Between Mother and Newborn

Alessia Resta in her plant-and-neon-filled apartment.

Apartment Botanist’s Alessia Resta on Being a “Plant Parent”

A forest in winter, with snow in evergreen branches and bushes.

Jon Mooallem’s Walking Podcast: Like Receiving a Butt-Dial From a Nature-Loving Friend

Small green sprouts emerging from wet soil.

The Heirloom Seeds You Should Plant This Season

A pair of Felco shears cutting a small branch.

The Perfect Hand Tools for Pruning Your Plants

Manitoga house designed by Russel Wright

An Exhibition Posits How Design Can Be a Steward of Nature and the Future

The Isle Royale in Lake Superior, one of the sites rendered digitally in “A Species Between Worlds.” (Courtesy Life Calling Initiative)

An Exhibition Ponders Technology’s Grip on Human “Reality”

A blue, brown, and translucent sculpture by Neri Oxman.

Neri Oxman’s “Material Ecology” Gets the MoMA Spotlight

Two astronaut gloves touching on a grey background.

Understanding the Sensations of the Skin

Trees with ropes supporting their branches

Yukitsuri, a Sculptural Japanese Gardening Tradition, Is a Wonder to Behold

A bumpy white chair filled with black holes.

Marlène Huissoud Crafts a Provocative Chair for Insects

Tatiana Schlossberg smiling next to the front cover of Inconspicuous Consumption.

Environmental Journalist Tatiana Schlossberg Shares Her Media Diet

Amy Helm and the Curbside Pickup Band playing music on a front lawn.

Amy Helm’s Traveling Curbside Pickup Band Brings Live Music to Your Doorstep

Snow caught in bare branches in sunlight.

The Sensory Hit of Cold Weather on Our Noses, Explained

Two bundles of palo santo sticks in a gold tray.

The Cleansing Craze Around Palo Santo

Cover of “Rocky Mountain Modern” by John Gendall

A New Book Traces the Evolution of Modernism in the Rocky Mountains

An app screen of 72 Seasons reading "Major Cold."

This App Tracks the 72 Seasons of the Japanese Lunar Calendar

A diptych of a painting of cherry blossoms

Damien Hirst Presents an Evocative Forest of Cherry Blossoms at Paris’s Fondation Cartier

Three clear perfume vials with insects encased in their glass stand on a white backdrop.

Artist Anicka Yi Mines Biology and Technology to Craft a Line of Perfumes

NASA's Eau de Luna perfume next to a pile of moon rocks.

NASA’s “Eau de Space” Fragrance Recreates the Smell of Outer Space

Theaster Gates’s “Black Chapel,” the 2022 Serpentine Pavilion in London’s Kensington Gardens. (Photo: Iwan Baan. Courtesy Serpentine and Theaster Gates Studio)

For Black Communities, These Gardens Double as Sites of Healing

A lineup of four Humankind deodorants in multicolored applicators.

The Best All-Natural Deodorants on the Market

Courtesy Grand Seiko

The Bamboo Garden of a Tokyo Museum Becomes a Watch Dial

Bright Orange turmeric root and powder on a green background.

Why Turmeric Is Everywhere Right Now

Rolling clouds above a tree.

The Intrinsic Value of Cloudspotting

Jana Winderen using a hydrophone to record underwater in the Dominican Republic. (Photo: José Alejandro Alvarez)

By Listening to the Ocean, Jana Winderen Exposes the Vital Role of Sound in Aquatic Life

Breau on fire on a white stone.

This Amazonian Sap Will Ease Your Mind

A dark orange glass of génépy on a yellow background.

Stock Your Bar With This Lesser-Known Liqueur from the Alps

Truffle expert Rowan Jacobsen

Rowan Jacobsen Sniffs Out the Seductive Scent of Truffles

Green celery growing in a metal pail.

Why the Sweet Scent of Celery Reminds Us of the Fall Harvest to Come

Perfumer Yann Vasnier

Yann Vasnier on the Fragrance World’s Renewed Interest in the Outdoors

Winemaker Frank Cornelissen

Made from Grapes Grown on an Active Volcano, These Wines Smack of Liquid Stone

Herbalist Rachelle Robinett

The Healing Power of Plants, According to an Herbalist

Disembodied plastic limbs on a grey background.

How Social Distancing and Quarantine May Be Changing the Makeup of Your Body Odors

A crinkled green tote bag on a white plinth.

A Waterproof, Washable Bag That’s Actually Environmentally Friendly

A map detailing the global locations of Sounds of the Forest’s audio postcards.

This Open-Source Library Captures the Magic of the Forest Through Sound

Ayanna Young in an embroidered shirt, smiling in the wilderness.

A Podcast That Tells Stories of People, Politics, and Nature

Yunohana onsen powder

Experience Japanese Hot Springs From the Comfort of Your Bathtub

Professor John Crimaldi using lasers to render odor plumes visible. (Courtesy John Crimaldi)

The Fascinating Significance of Understanding How Animals Detect Odors

A submersible robot traveling below the Thwaites Glacier.

This Video Footage of the Thwaites Glacier Shows the Sea Levels Rising Before Our Very Eyes

Wild Design book by Kimberly Ridley

Nature’s Functional Forms, Billions of Years in the Making

A Smallhold minifarm installed at a Whole Foods in Brooklyn. (Photo: Deirdre Lewis)

Smallhold’s Mushroom Minifarms Give New Meaning to the Term “Local Food”

An array of Baudar’s wildcrafted vinegars. (Courtesy Chelsea Green Publishing)

“Culinary Alchemist” Pascal Baudar on the Art of Foraging and the Craft of Vinegar

A photograph from the series “Eyes as Big as Plates” by Riitta Ikonen and Karoline Hjorth. (Photo: Sinikka. Courtesy the artists)

In London, an Exhibition Seeks to Deepen Our Understanding of Interspecies Connection

Cake by Yip Studio

The Brooklyn Baker Modeling Cakes on Her Rock Collection

The Future Library Forest. (Photo: Rio Gandara. Courtesy Helsingin Sanomat)

At a Library in Oslo, the Books Can’t Be Read Until 2114

Rain soaked soil seen through a tangle of grass and plants.

That New Rain Smell, Explained

Incense burning on a pack of sticks on a red background.

The Best Japanese Incense Sticks Around

"Five Echoes" installation by Es Devlin

Es Devlin Is Planting a Forest in the Miami Design District

A person's bare back against a black background.

Why Hugs Are Good for Your Health

María Elena Pombo stacking bricks for an exhibition.

How Artist and Designer María Elena Pombo Is Sowing Seeds for Change

A closeup photo of a green peppermint stalk.

Why Peppermint Is Nature’s Best Insect Repellent

A box of orange, red, and yellow citrus fruits.

In New York? Natoora Has Your Grocery Delivery Covered

Courtesy A Space

This Collection of Hand-Carved, Noguchi-Inspired Bowls Imbues Spaces With an Earthy Essence

A split avocado in bright, moody lighting.

Miguel Gonzalez, AKA Davocadoguy, on the Perfect Avocado

Edn's home garden with an assortment of herbs.

A Low-Maintenance Home Garden for the Botanically Challenged

Three people underneath an Olafur Elaisson video installation.

Olafur Elaisson’s Latest Exhibition Offers a Hopeful Vision of the Future

A mosquito coil.

Plant-Based Extracts to Fend Off Mosquitoes This Summer

Bulbous white sculptures with various forms extending from them in a gallery.

Julian Watts Heeds the Call of the Wild

Steven Satterfield in a hat and jacket, on a gray background.

Whetstone Magazine Co-Founder and “Origin Forager” Stephen Satterfield on Food, Culture, and Identity

The Earth on a black background

What We’re Reading on the Internet Archive

The Wind and Water Bar mid-construction. (Photo: Phan Quang. Courtesy Thames & Hudson.)

In Vietnam, Võ Trọng Nghĩa Merges Nature and Architecture

The José Gourmet conservas line of brightly colored boxes on a white surface.

Why Conservas Should Be Among the Most Practical Additions to Your Pantry Stock

A roll of Who Gives a Crap "Emergency Roll!!" toilet paper in orange wrapping.

This Cheekily Named Toilet Paper Brand Truly Gives a Crap

author and environmental anthropologist Gina Rae La Cerva

Environmental Anthropologist and “Feasting Wild” Author Gina Rae La Cerva’s Media Diet

Two hands holding ground tea leaves in white cups.

How Iced Tea Came to Be

A brown and gold bottle of perfume next to a box reading "Old Faithful."

Caswell-Massey Bottles the Smell of Yellowstone Park, Literally

Playfool's Forest Crayons

A Tokyo Design Studio Makes Crayons Out of Wood from Japan’s Overabundant Forests

Photo of child with hyena from The Lion's Share campaign

How Brands That Use Images of Animals in Their Ads Can Help Preserve Biodiversity

Útilykt fragrance by 66° North and Fischersund

This Unisex Fragrance Captures Iceland’s Natural Splendor

Dr. Brian Fisher smiling and examining a pinned wasp.

Entomologist Dr. Brian Fisher on Why Edible Insects are Good for Your Health

White and red flowers with green leaves on a solid black background.

Horticulturist Ken Druse on Exploring the World of Botanical Fragrance

Awapuhi plant

Awapuhi, a Cousin of the Ginger Plant, Is Nature’s Shampoo

A chocolate bar with a green leaf inside.

Has Casa Bosques Created the Most Incredible Chocolate Bar Ever?

A seismograph needle drawing a black line across white paper.

In the Age of “Anthropause,” Scientists Are Studying a Seismic Hush

Various scented objects archived in trays.

Mandy Aftel’s Willy Wonka–Like Wonderland of Curious Scents