The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2016

The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2016

Foreword

Introduction

Back to the Land. CHELSEA BIONDOLILLO

Tracking Ivory. BRYAN CHRISTY

They Helped Erase Ebola in Liberia. Now Liberia Is Erasing Them. HELENE COOPER

Rotten Ice. GRETEL EHRLICH

Why Are Sports Bras So Terrible?. ROSE EVELETH

The Man Who Tried to Redeem the World with Logic. AMANDA GEFTER

A Very Naughty Little Girl. ROSE GEORGE

The False Gospel of Alcoholics Anonymous. GABRIELLE GLASER

Thirty Million Gallons Under the Sea. ANTONIA JUHASZ

The Bed-Rest Hoax. ALEXANDRA KLEEMAN

The Siege of Miami. ELIZABETH KOLBERT

What’s Left Behind. KEA KRAUSE

The Will to Change. ROBERT KUNZIG

The Modern Moose. AMY LEACH

The Lost Girls. APOORVA MANDAVILLI

Solar, Eclipsed. CHARLES C. MANN

Return of the Wild. EMMA MARRIS

Perfect Nails, Poisoned Workers. SARAH MASLIN NIR

Attack of the Killer Beetles. MADDIE OATMAN

The Whole Universe Catalog. STEPHEN ORNES

Bugged. RINKU PATEL

My Periodic Table. OLIVER SACKS

The Really Big One. KATHRYN SCHULZ

Begin Cutting. GAURAV RAJ TELHAN

Telescope Wars. KATIE WORTH

Contributors’ Notes