Cut-paper artist Nikki McClure emphasizes the natural world in her picture books, including Old Wood Boat and You Are Not Too Late, which she often stages near her Puget Sound home of Olympia, Wash.

In “Something About the Sky,” the National Book Award-winning marine biologist brings her signature sense of wonder to the science of clouds. By Maria Popova Maria Popova, the creator of ...

Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring, published in 1962, was a landmark in the development of the modern environmental movement. Carson’s scientific perspective and rigor created a work of substantial depth ...

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Rachel Carson, author of Silent Spring, at her summer home in Boothbay Harbor, Maine. (Photo by CBS via Getty Images) “Nothing in science has any value to society if it is not communicated.” – Anne ...