Orbweaving spiders perceive the world mainly through vibrations of silk and air, parallel to the way we perceive the world mainly through light and sound, writes Dana Wilde.

Sometimes I get chills when my mind homes in on the fact that spiders are sentient, writes Dana Wilde.

Every kind of suffering and joy seems upon us here in early summer, writes Dana Wilde.

If you can’t remember ticks being much of a problem when you were a kid, it’s because they weren’t, writes Dana Wilde.

While the coronavirus has your attention, a more catastrophic threat to the human race — climate change — continues to boil along in the background, writes Dana Wilde.

Since 1970, North America’s bird population has decreased by about 30%, with nearly 3 billion birds that used to be in the woods, grasslands and shore now gone, writes Dana Wilde.

More and more people are recognizing the reality of effects on the environment by looking at the data right before their eyes, writes Dana Wilde.