In early 2024, climate-fueled atmospheric rivers transformed Death Valley's Badwater Basin into a lake and Anza-Borrego Desert into a sea of wildflowers.

- Orion Magazine

Time stands still in San Diego’s Frozen Zoo, where living cells of critically endangered animals are safeguarded in the face of mass extinction.

-Orion Magazine

A glassfrog’s heart beats in a transparent chest, yet it survives—like 86 percent of terrestrial life—without a scientific name.

- Orion Magazine

In 1971, more than 400 tree seeds traveled to the moon and back. Here’s where they landed.

- Orion Magazine

Meet Te Urewera, the Aotearoa New Zealand rainforest that has legal personhood.

- Orion Magazine

In Hawai‘i, there are over 200 words for rain, all of which encourage a relationship to the weather.

- Orion Magazine

As a proposed geological Golden Spike, plutonium points not to the earth, but to us—our capacity for destruction and our ability to stand for that without which humankind will not survive.

- Orion Magazine

What passes between two beings in the comfortable silences of a forty-year friendship?

- Orion Magazine

Scientists around the world are digging deep to discover our exact spot in the geological timescale, and the stakes have never been higher.

- Orion Magazine (immersive)

During his record-breaking mission aboard the International Space Station, astronaut Scott Kelly grew a garden.

- Orion Magazine

Glimpse the natural world through the eyes of Concetta Antico—a tetrachromat, who perceives 99 million more colors than the average human.

- Orion Magazine

A landlubber biologist falls in love with the ocean.

- Wanderlust Journal