Nature Physics: the Editorial Elements of style explains the importance of clear and accessible writing. The advice contained within this Editorial applies to all the Nature journals. Presenting ...

in written form or in picture. The aim of 'good' style is ease of interpretation—to reduce to a minimum the mechanics of the transfer of ideas. As a service to the readers of Nature Immunology ...

Robert MacFarlane's Landmarks explores the British countryside using others' writing as an interior map that challenges him to approach familiar places in new ways. We love reading about nature ...

Death of the naturalist: why is the “new nature writing” so tame? The so-called new nature writing has become a publishing phenomenon, but how much do its authors truly care about our wild places? By ...

A new collection of nature writing from Appalachia aims to bring readers closer to nature through stories about both the splendor of the mountain region and clear examples of how humans are ...

By Robert Macfarlane Mark Cocker’s interrogation of “the new nature writing”, which we published in June, provoked heated debate. Here is Robert Macfarlane’s reply. In 1972, Gregory Bateson published ...

The tradition of the English nature writer is long, proud and distinctly genteel. Its origins lie with the pioneering 18th-century curate Gilbert White, writing from his inherited family home in ...