Freelance writing about the wild, old and dead. Bylines in NatGeo, SciAm, The New York Times, Texas Monthly, and many other places. Repped by @desir.ee at Looking Glass Literary (fiction) and @benglishhh.bsky.social at Transatlantic (nonfiction)
Asher Elbein
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This fascinates me
Trying to have it both ways: The Netflix Show
Watching this news anchor wait increasingly awkwardly for the big moment is some of the funniest unintentional comedy I've seen in a minute
The process of moving natural gas is wasteful and inefficient; transport accounts for roughly half of methane emissions associated with fossil gas. In Mexico, new pipelines threaten the communities and environments they snake through.
it's a last minute construction job in peak build season. That's a decent sized crew, all working OT, that they know will be heavily televised which means strict adherence to safety standards. You do this shit for dust control and benign safety standards. It truly could not be more basic.
very emotionally invested in the Caring for a Bee with Mangled Wings Thread, imho this is one of its highlights
sorry i know its fun to be conspiratorial about everything but let me tell you from decades of experience in labour, it's totally normal to put up a tarp for this kind of thing. Not everything has to be some grand, shady mystery.
I fucking love birthright citizenship
The Rough Earthsnake ranges into the northern quarter of the Florida peninsula. This one is from one of the most southern populations in the state. #herps
