The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2011 (58 page)

 

N
INA
G. J
ABLONSKI
The Naked Truth.
Scientific American.
February.

B
ARBARA
K
INGSOLVER
Water Is Life.
National Geographic.
April.

T
HOMAS
K
IRKWOOD
Why Can't We Live Forever?
Scientific American.
September.

B
RENDAN
I. K
OERNER
Red Menace.
Wired.
March.

 

A
NDREW
L
AWLER
It's Alive.
Discover.
June.
Collapse? What Collapse? Societal Change Revisited.
Science.
November 12.

J
ONAH
L
EHRER
Under Pressure.
Wired.
August.

J
UDITH
L
EWIS
The Other Big One.
High Country News.
February 15.

P
RISCILLA
L
ONG
My Brain on My Mind.
The American Scholar.
Winter.

B
ARRY
L
OPEZ
An Intimate Geography.
Portland.
Summer.

 

B
RUNO
M
ADDOX
The Body Shop.
Discover.
May.

C
URTIS
W. M
AREAN
When the Sea Saved Humanity.
Scientific American.
August.

L
INDA
M
ARSA
The Hot Zone.
Discover.
December.

S
USAN
M
C
G
RATH
River of Raptors.
Audubon.
September/October.

B
ILL
M
C
K
IBBEN
The Only Way to Have a Cow.
Orion.
March/April.

L
AWRENCE
M
ILLMAN
Farthest North.
The Atlantic.
November.

 

M
ICHELLE
N
IJHUIS
Prodigal Dogs.
High Country News.
February 15.

 

A
LISA
O
PAR
Smoke Signals.
Audubon.
May/June.

 

B
EN
P
AYNTER
Welcome to Armageddon.
Wired.
September.

A
DAM
P
IORE
The Bionic Man.
Discover.
November.

M
ATTHEW
P
OWER
The Solution.
VQR
Fall.

A
NNIE
P
ROULX
A Year of Birds.
Harper's Magazine.
December.

D
AVID
Q
UAMMEN
Great Migrations.
National Geographic.
November.

 

H
UGH
R
AFFLES
A Conjoined Fate.
Orion.
January/February.

H
ANNA
R
OSIN
Earthbound.
The Atlantic.
September.

S
HERMAN
A
PT
R
USSELL
True Confessions of a Citizen Scientist.
OnEarth.
Spring.

 

O
LIVER
S
ACKS
A Man of Letters.
The New Yorker.
June 28.

M
ARK
S
CHAPIRO
Conning the Climate.
Harper's Magazine.
February.

J
AMIE
S
HREEVE
Evolutionary Road.
National Geographic.
July.

B
RYAN
S
MITH
Your Lethal Lawn.
Men's Health.
June.

R
ICHARD
S
TONE
Home, Home Outside the Range?
Science
. September 24.

G
INGER
S
TRAND
The Economics of Estuary.
Orion.
September/October.

P
ATRICK
S
YMMES
The Beautiful and the Dammed.
Outside.
June.

 

G
ARY
T
AUBES
Live Long and Prosper.
Discover.
October.

J
OHN
T
RAVIS
In Search of Sitting Bull.
Science.
October 8.

A
BIGAIL
T
UCKER
The Truth About Lions.
Smithsonian.
January.

 

L
OGAN
W
ARD
The Race to Save the Bats.
Popular Mechanics.
December.

C
HARLES
W
OHLFORTH
Conservation and Eugenics.
Orion.
July/August.

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