Latest Stories

Most recently published stories in Earth.

The Hawk Moth
A Hawk moth first appeared on my living room window one evening last year in the spring time. The following morning I noticed another sitting on the window of my car. I had to lift him off with gentle coercion onto my hand but again the next morning another was sitting again on the window of my car. I had never seen anything like it before.
By Kassandra Coghlan5 years ago in Earth
FIRE ANT
I was sitting alone as usual, contemplating the flow of water by the scenic campus waterfront and the flow of existence itself, when a "friend" joined me. That friend was no ordinary friend, that friend was the FIRE ANT, friend extraordinary, worker of the highest caliber!
By Rana5 years ago in Earth
Church Flowers
As we pasted the craft paper to the sides of the milk carton I knew my mother would love the hand made craft of propagated Marigold seeds. They were petite yellow French marigolds, as I would discover some time later in life. These small flowers quickly outgrew the carton and my mother planted them outside by the sidewalk. They died out and created seed pods which my mother took and planted the next season. Mom has gone on now and I have been to her grave site, out of state, and planted marigolds right there. Planting flowers has since become a hobby and a great love of mine. I grow 50 to 200 individual plants on my front porch every year and even more in my yard. I grow everything from daisies to roses to lilies. I have grown Foxglove, columbine, lambs ear, crown of thorns, cactus, and various succulents just to name a few.
By Michael R Bragg5 years ago in Earth
Cloning Without a Brain
How often do you think about jellyfish? If your answer isn’t ‘everyday’, you might need to make some adjustments in your life.
By Soomimuu5 years ago in Earth
Four Hungry Mouths!
Four Hungry Mouths! Living on a forested acreage for the past forty years has given me numerous opportunities to observe the quiet and sometimes noisy aspects of Nature! Since the arrival of the global pandemic restricting forays “away”, I have been delighted even more with a front row seat as the seasons cycle past. This Spring in particular, each intricate detail of every blossom amazed me. Watching the silent unfolding of buds into such glorious blooms is indeed a thrill to witness. But the living creatures that frequent my line of vision draw me outdoors every day. Because our trees offer safety, privacy, and an abundance of food, our lands have become home to squirrels, raccoons, coyotes, skunks, rabbits—and just hundreds of birds.
By Maryalice Wood5 years ago in Earth
On The Back of The Big Trunk
We were riding forwards on a golden hunt. Towards a point in the African bush two hours from Johannesburg. It was the summer of two thousand and fourteen. My son pictured above had just won two grand. Designing a space logo for a ship circling planet earth had been his task at hand. We had to get out of the city of London. Dad was stuck in a weird kind of rut. Burying a dead soul who was never really alive while living poor thing. Just another swing in a mans song. We took off after flipping a coin heads or tails. Heads landed it was Africa, tails was Japan. The coin landed heads up.
By Black Dog Productions5 years ago in Earth
REUSE not Recycle
The other day I got a knock on the door from someone selling something. I normally don’t bother as they seldom sell something that I want, but this guy was a milkman from McQueens Dairies who was offering deliveries in reusable glass bottles.
By Mike Singleton 💜 Mikeydred 5 years ago in Earth
It was, it is, it can be...Better!
My company, Earth Fabric's Up-cycling Sewist, also ads pockets to anything, remakes your old college sweatshirt to a pillow cover, makes "HoneyBums" pillows and "HandyBums" work aprons from your hubbies old jeans. I also have a hot selling selection of zipper pouches, tote bags and snap wallets (just great for gift cards), and a pair of Fiscars scissors is with me all the way!
By Randi Jean Veiberg5 years ago in Earth
Not an Activist
It's one of the greatest ironies of the 21st century that the world's largest online megastore is named after the most vital ecosystem on Earth whose exploitation makes our addiction to materialism possible. It's as if there's a big red flag waving in the wind, the truth so glaringly obvious that we ignore it.
By Thomas Tortorich5 years ago in Earth
Wisconsin Warrior Brood XIII
I’m a hobby nature photographer and my specialty is my own backyard. I live in Wisconsin and it’s normal to capture a great photo. My past photos include deer, birds, squirrels and bugs. My most exotic sighting was a snow owl one wintry day but I didn’t get it on film.
By Diana Hayes5 years ago in Earth
Of Life, Nature and Promises
In 1994 I was born into an Air Force family, a lifestyle well known for its tendency to be semi-nomadic. As you can imagine, I grew up with a sense of wonder for the world and an extreme capacity for wanderlust. I have only left the country twice, a weekend trip to Vancouver, Canada when I was ten and a month-long study abroad in Costa Rica, but the list of places I want to go is endless. There are a multitude of reasons for my desire to visit each place: location, culture, festivals, architecture, and wildlife. With the climate changing as rapidly as it is, despite the best efforts of the naysayers to convince us otherwise, many of those places on my lists may be gone in the next few decades, some of them sooner. It is a sad reality when you must prioritize places you wish to see because you're afraid that if you wait too long, you may never see it at all; at least, not for the reason you wanted to go in the first place.
By Lexi 🌻5 years ago in Earth
Bold, Brawling Baboons
The wonder that is the Serengeti is something not easily described with words, or even through pictures. When I returned home and attempted to convey my experiences, the closest I came to explaining it was that it feels as if the beginning and the end of the world is there. Every colour, sound, and texture in existence seems to coalesce in that great expanse of land.
By Sa5 years ago in Earth