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It's kind of unreal to read these essays 2 years later because it shows how much has changed. The first story was a definite att grabber and, to a degree, the rest of the essays pale in comparison 😂 still, I liked the stories that focused on pollution and the environment. It makes me wonder what they would say now. How much have the bombings in Palestine affected the environment? Where do we stand? How much has our privacy been breached? Etc

Features:

An essay about the anus, by a self-proclaimed anus enthusiast 😂 (seriously, worth reading just for this one)

What slime knows

Lifecycles of galaxies

How high blood pressure should kill giraffes but doesn‘t

Climate change. Lots of climate change (a bit monothematic, in fact; understandably tho)

Pretty interesting even if the subject choice gets repetitive near the end.

4.0/5

4/5

This was a wonderful overview of standout nature and science essays of the year that I would have missed, if not for this collection. I appreciated the editors dedication to representing a wide variety of voices within the field.

My favorite essays in the collection were What Slime Knows by Lacy M. Johnson, Beavers are the Firefighters Who Work for Free by Lucy Sherriff, and A River Reawakened by Jessica Plumb.