She assumed they now lived on North Haven full time, and was disappointed to find they would leave in August.

The Library of America recruited the help of editor Sandra Steingraber in recently publishing a new retrospective on marine biologist Rachel Carson and her seminal role in jump-starting environmentalism...

Into the Raging Sea: Thirty-Three Mariners, One Megastorm, and the Sinking ofEl Faro 

By Rachel Slade (HarperCollins, 2018)

Reviewed by Tina Cohen

The trees set heavily, and we thinned relentlessly, rubbing and plucking hundreds of pea and olive-sized peaches…

I felt like part of the team as I found a table in the attic for Kwami’s work surface.

It has been yet another summer of alarming temperatures, the aftermath of Hurricane Maria is still part of Puerto Rico’s daily reality, and news of dramatic wildfires in the west has people across the country and across the world wondering about their future.

The summer has been, in a word, enlightening, as I gain new perspectives on the culture of the place I grew up in.

An estimated 8-10 million tons of plastic makes its way into the oceans each year.