In his new book, Nature’s Best Hope, Tallamy argues that we should view our own gardens as a piece of the biggest national park in the country, what he calls the Homegrown National Park. This speaks to what we grow in our gardens – we need to provide food and shelter for wildlife – but…

Is it possible that opposition to GMOs on the left resembles climate change denial on the right? This is one of the startling things that emerges in my conversation with Nick Kaplinsky, specialist in genomics and chair of the biology department at Swarthmore College, with whom I discuss Nina Fedoroff’s book Mendel in the Kitchen on…

I met J Alan Clark, Biologist and Associate Professor at Fordham University, at his office at Fordham’s Louis Calder Center, a research center tucked into the hills above Armonk, in Westchester, New York. To get access, you have to have a special parking pass and you get the sense that you’re going somewhere laymen don’t…

Ever looked up how rayon is made? Or why organic cotton is so much more expensive? Have you tried to figure out how just one item of clothing you own was made? If you have, you’ll appreciate just how complicated the journey from material – whether natural or human-made – to finished product is. I…