In which I don a Tyvek suit and head underground, on the trail of biologists and bats. White-nose syndrome, a fast-moving fungal disease, is decimating cave-dwelling bats in the northeastern United States -- and threatening to spread across the continent.

Do environmental journalists reach too quickly for the tragic narrative?

What would Wallace Stegner -- and his elusive subject, labor activist Joe Hill -- think of The Social Network?

Edited by Elizabeth Kolbert, this anthology includes my Orion story "Taking Wildness in Hand." "New Yorker contributor Kolbert has pulled together a magnificent display of writing." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review)