Scientists studied more than 700 ancient Chinese poems that mention the Yangtze finless porpoise to determine its population ...

In the study, the team systematically dug through preserved poems dating back to the year 618 CE and found hundreds of ...

Warning: This graphic requires JavaScript. Please enable JavaScript for the best experience. April is National Poetry Month. In Washington, it is also marked by a ...

Author Joseph Bruchac shares a poem about a bumblebee and how taking the time to listen to the natural world led him to it.

Many people have written poetry about the environment and climate change, but few have shown a real knowledge of how nature works. Mikaela Nyman is one. Born and raised in Finland, now living in ...

To celebrate, we invited five Washington Post photographers to capture nature, however they saw fit ... Time and several volumes of “The Best American Poetry.” He is the director of the Creative ...

The sun is shining, the flowers are blooming and the afternoon breezes are doing their best to hold off the sure-to-come heat ...

In her lifetime, she was a very famous poet ... It’s a city poem, but one that incorporates some arresting nature imagery (the sun, the moon, the wan glow of dawn). It delivers a confidential ...

An anthology of her teenage poetry, published for ... attempts at rhyming of an inferior nature, it must be acknowledged, but they are nevertheless my best.”Credit...The Brontë Parsonage ...

And if, in the words of the poet Emily Dickinson, hope is a thing with feathers, then poetry, at its best, is a thing with ... in the poetry of language. As nature sprouts, we spout!