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Award-winning environmentalist, author, and journalist Bill McKibben selects twenty science and nature essays that represent the best examples of the form published in the previous year. �This was the most anomalous year (so far) in human history,� guest editor Bill McKibben writes, �the year in which the relationship between people and planet showed its most dramatic signs yet of unraveling.� The selections in The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2024 reveal a trying year for our planet�from the Lahaina wildfire tragedy to the lush Amazon jungle slowly turning to savanna�while also celebrating the earth�s beautiful and mysterious ways�from the largest beaver dam on earth to the heroic innovation to prevent birds from crashing into Chicago�s expanse of glass buildings. These essays offer solace in trying times, showing a way for a better future. They are, as McKibben says, �a reminder that this world is still a lovely and deep place, well worth the fighting for.� The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2024 includes IAN FRAZIER � AMANDA GEFTER � DOUGLAS FOX � SARAH KAPLAN � BEN GOLDFARB � RAYMOND ZHONG � ALEX CUADROS � AND OTHERS