National Wildlife Federation — Uniting all Americans to ensure wildlife thrive in a rapidly changing world, the National Wildlife Federation builds upon our nation's conservation heritage for present and future generations.
“The Thing About You” — When they were little, Netty and G spent their prayers asking God why he made them cousins instead of sisters. Why had he made them suffer the cruelty of returning to their separate homes alone aft…
Photographer Michael Shainblum Reveals New Zealand's Remarkable Beauty — Michael Shainblum on photographing New Zealand through intuition, patience, and changing weather.
Claire Danes’ Two Favorite Scenes in ‘The Beast of Me’ Have One Key Thing in Common: Facing Off with Matthew Rhys — The two-time Emmy winner tells IndieWire about two intense face-offs against her formidable costar Matthew Rhys, who plays both antagonist and muse.
‘Silo’ Season 3 Channels Classic Thrillers from Sydney Pollack and Francis Ford Coppola — The director of the Apple TV's 'Silo' Season 3 talks about influences like Sydney Pollack, Alan Pakula, and Francis Coppola.
Kids with autism are prone to drowning. Florida is trying to prevent that — Kids with autism can be 160 times more likely than other children to drown. Florida is dedicating state money to a program that prioritizes swim lessons for these kids.
Samsung's Secure Folder does something most people miss—run two instances of any app — Be on the lookout for out-of-the-box ways to utilize “boring” features.
Mathematics: Its Content, Methods and Meaning | Mathematical Association of America
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A chemist mapped what actually happens inside a jar of kimchi over three weeks — the bacterial succession, the pH cliff, when it stops being vegetable and becomes something else
The Seamstress Who Solved the Ancient Mystery of the Argonaut, Pioneered the Aquarium, and Laid the Groundwork for the Study of Octopus Intelligence — “I armed myself with patience and courage, and only after several months managed to dissolve my doubts and see my research crowne
Watched a heron stand motionless in shallow water for 20 minutes, then miss the fish anyway. Nature documentaries don't show you how much wildlife just... fails at the basics.
Curiosity as an Instrument of Love: Thoreau’s Touching Account of 24 Hours with a Tiny Owl — “If you would learn the secrets of Nature, you must practice more humanity than others.”
IUCN Red List of Threatened Species — The status of species worldwide.
Apple Hide My Email Vulnerability Exposes Real Email Addresses — A flaw in Apple's Hide My Email service can reportedly allow almost anyone to uncover the real email address behind a generated alias, and Apple has failed to address it for more than a year since it was first…
Congress Hasn't Been Briefed Since The Iran Negotiations Took Place Says Rep. Malliotakis — Secretary of State Marco Rubio and special envoy Steve Witkoff will brief the full House and Senate today on the initial peace deal between the US and Iran, Punchbowl reports citing a…
Carrie R. Moore has won the 2026 Young Lions Fiction Award. — Last night, in a ceremony, the New York Public Library announced the winner of its Young Lions Fiction Award, which celebrates fiction by writers 35 and younger. This year’s winner is Carrie …
The Only Three Distinctions Between People — It may be that consciousness evolved to sieve the relevant from the incomprehensible allness of all there is, to parse the world into concepts and find an organizing principle for the chaos of them…
Apple 'Concerned' Over iPhone 18 Pro Data Leak From Supplier Tata — Apple is "concerned" about a recent data leak from Tata Electronics, one of its manufacturing partners in India, reports Reuters. Tata Electronics was the target of a cyberattack, with confidential Apple…
Lit Hub Daily: June 22, 2026 — “She does not lack a sex. The clothes she wears are just one of the ways in which a woman choosing to play by her own rules can appear.” On the time George Sand got dapper. | Lit Hub Bi…
Can One Mountain Town Really Have It All? — In Breckenridge, explore a small town with a big summer menu of arts, history, alpine adventure, and elevated food and drink
How the Rest of the World Sees America (Through the Eyes of Its Writers) — I’ve spent much of my career reporting outside the United States, but in recent years, many of my interviews have ended the same way: with questions to me about what is happening at home. The…
Diatoms and the Meaning of Life — In 1703, the world’s most esteemed scientific journal published a surprising letter from an anonymous correspondent. (At the time, until well into the twentieth century, anonymity often meant…
Manil Suri on Visualizing Your Book’s Narrative Structure — This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Craft of Writing newsletter—sign up here. Here’s a nifty tool I’ve devised which authors might want to try out for themselves. It’s free, easy to use, and reveals t…
The Literary Film & TV You Need to Stream in June — Every month, all the major streaming services add a host of newly acquired (or just plain new) shows, movies, and documentaries into their ever-rotating libraries. So what’s a dedicated reader to w…
“Your dangerous shoe.” A Poem by Lila Matsumoto — When I woke up I discovered that Dorothy’s flatmate had taped up my broken shoe so tightly with electrical tape that I couldn’t get my foot in it to go to work. The flatmate had been very kind. He …
A Poet on the Factory Floor: On Daily Life in China’s Industrial Centers — on the pristine production floor the air you breathed was just another product sitting at workstations wearing antistatic rings you let out the stench of rust let in the summer breeze and revived, …
Einstein and the Eagle: How Relativity Is Saving Earth’s Rarest Raptor — At the hazy dawn of the twentieth century, through the byways of mental meandering and mathematical play, Albert Einstein arrived at a revelation about the nature of the universe while working as a…
OpenAI's free GPT-5.5 model makes ChatGPT better at understanding context — OpenAI has rolled out an upgrade for the free model you interact with the most on ChatGPT.
“Don’t Let Nobody Ever Call You That.” Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor on Finding Confidence in Her Blackness — “Richard, she can’t stop looking at you,” my mom said, with a big silly grin. After only three months, my father was back in my life. And it was all because of the n-word.…
Who Were the Mayflower Puritans? (And Did You Know They Came From a Town Called “Scrooby”?) — The Mayflower Pilgrims believed that they were freedom seekers, escaping centuries of bondage. William Bradford, a Mayflower passenger who served as Plymouth’s longtime governor, began h
Started fermenting hot sauce in a jar next to my bed for three weeks. My apartment now smells like something died, but also like I know what I'm doing.
Hermann Hesse on How to Hear the Wisdom of the Inner Voice — “If you are now wondering where to look for consolation, where to seek a new and better God… he does not come to us from books, he lives within us… This God is in you too. He is m…
On the Workplace Accident That Changed Amazon Union-Leader Chris Smalls’s Life — My mother didn’t have the budget for me to compete with the kids who had Jordans or AF1s or who rocked any of the more expensive brands. This was something I had hard feelings about when I was youn…
How to Live Fully: Ursula K. Le Guin’s Remedy for Our Resistance to Change — The most assuring thing about life is that we can change, that things can change, that they are always changing. The most maddening is that despite living in a universe that is one constant transmu…
50 of the Greatest Summer Novels of All Time — We updated this list as part of the the Best of the Best Books Reading Challenge! Join the challenge now! What makes a summer novel? It might be set in during a summer (One Fateful or otherwise), o…
Follow Awe: Deb Olin Unferth on Writing Speculative Fiction — This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Craft of Writing newsletter—sign up here. Most of my books have elements of surrealism or sci-fi or the fantastic—the passenger pigeons mysteriously return, or a ch…
Lit Hub’s Most Anticipated Books of 2026, Part Two — The year is half over, if you can believe it. Time marches ever forward, into the abyss. Books, though, can smooth the passage. If you choose wisely, that is. To that end, here are the novels, coll…
How We All Become Little Blue Dots on a Digital Map — As Taiwanese manufacturers rushed to fabricate GPS chips in the early and mid-2000s and sat-nav companies rushed to install them in their receivers, Frank van Diggelen and his colleagues at Global …
NYT Strands hints, answers for July 4, 2026 — Every hint, nudge and outright answer you need to complete today's NYT Strands puzzle.
Kevin Young has won the 2026 Griffin Poetry Prize. — Last night, at an event in Toronto, the Griffin Poetry Prize—the world’s largest international prize for a single book of poetry published in English—announced its 2026 winner: Kevin Young’s …
These church members disagree on politics. Together they're wiping out medical debt — Trinity Moravian Church, a politically diverse congregation in Winston-Salem, N. C., has been raising money to retire medical debt in the surrounding community.
Animalia — A visual animal encyclopedia.
Ocean Health | Emily Burton | TEDxRoyal Tunbridge Wells Youth — In May 2026, after months of preparation, students from across Tunbridge Wells delivered their very own TEDx talk. With support from teachers, each student researched, scripted, rehearsed and presented a short talk…
May’s Best Reviewed Nonfiction — Herta Müller’s The Village on the Edge of the World, Siri Hustvedt’s Ghost Stories, and Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw’s Backtalker all feature among May’s best reviewed books. Brought to you by Book M…
American Patriotism Has Always Privileged the Hopes of the Future Over the Sins of the Present — In June 1826, Thomas Jefferson penned his last-ever letter, an essay on the American project. He had been invited to attend a celebration in Washington, to mark the fiftieth anniversa
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How Nature Imagined the Figment of You — It is there like a constant whisper, like a ceaseless gust of thought rustling through the canopy of the collective mind: the haunting sense that ours is a particularly difficult time to be alive, …
Home | The Wildlife Trusts — The Wildlife Trusts are a federation of 47 independent wildlife conservation charities covering the whole of the UK. We manage nature reserves, help people to learn about nature and campaign to protect our land and seas.
Our Work — The National Audubon Society protects birds and the places they need, today and tomorrow, throughout the Americas using science, advocacy, education, and on-the-ground conservation.
Lit Hub Weekly: June 15 – 19, 2026 — Emily Temple reads every summer reading list (so you don’t have to). | Lit Hub Reading Lists Why Robert W. Service’s “The Cremation of Sam McGee” is a good poem for bad dads. | Lit Hub Criticism Th…
Lit Hub Daily: June 23, 2026 — Why the elder Millennial experience of American life is a cycle of getting your hopes up and being let down. | Lit Hub Memoir Justin Ellis explores the labor history and racial solidarity of mid-ce…
“Little Prince” Author Antoine de Saint-Exupéry on Friendship — “Old friends cannot be created out of hand. Nothing can match the treasure of common memories, of trials endured together, of quarrels and reconciliations and generous emotions.”
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Serena Williams on Maya Joint match and return to tennis — For Serena Williams, everything and nothing has changed on her return to Wimbledon.
Our Programs - American Bird Conservancy — American Bird Conservancy relies on proven, scientifically backed strategies for achieving conservation results for birds throughout the Americas. We take on some of the greatest challenges facing birds, applying our expertise to solve c
How F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Overlooked Story Collection Helped Me Write My LA Novel — A Princeton University dropout who spent much of his life in New York, F. Scott Fitzgerald is often associated with the East Coast, but the themes that come up in his work again and again—old…
How to Be a Tree: Notes on the Resilience of Letting Go — This essay and poem are part of the Universe in Verse book. Trees grant us some of the richest metaphors for our own lives — a polished lens on the quality of attention we pay the world. “The…
Ann Patchett, Maggie O’Farrell, Ruth Ozecki and more: 21 new books out today! — June, already, at last. The first official month of summer begins, and with a bang: new Ann Patchett, Maggie O’Farrell, Ruth Ozecki, Deborah Levy, Josh Weil, Courtney Maum, and more arrive to…