Scientific American sits down with nature writer Robert Macfarlane to discuss his latest book—one of our top picks of ...

Robert Macfarlane was out in the mountains climbing with his older son recently when the teen asked him, “So Dad, when are gonna write your memoirs?” “And I was like, ‘I’ve been writing them for 21 ...

Rivers in Britain – and indeed across the world – are in an abject state, said Alex Preston in The Observer. Mainly, they are "dying" because of pollution (in Britain chiefly sewage), but the ...

We Minnesotans are almost all lucky enough to live near a river. The Mississippi, Minnesota, Red, Pigeon, Cascade, Crow, St. Croix, St. Louis, Whitewater, Zumbro and thousands of other waterways flow ...

Robert Macfarlane has climbed to the icy summits of windswept mountains and plunged into the darkened depths of the earth to research his books, and he says that may have given people the impression ...

From the second line of Robert Macfarlane’s new ode to nature, I was caught in the current, rushed along the rapids of his exploration into a question with fundamental consequences: Is this river — ...