The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2016

&quot;Science writers get into the game with all kinds of noble, high-minded ambitions. We want to educate. To enlighten,&quot; notes guest editor Amy Stewart in her introduction to <i>The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2016</i>. &quot;But at the end of the day, we're all writers . . . We're here to play for the folks.&quot; The writers in this anthology brought us the year's highest notes in the genre. From a Pulitzer Prize-winning essay on the earthquake that could decimate the Pacific Northwest to the astonishing work of investigative journalism that transformed the nail salon industry, this is a collection of hard-hitting and beautifully composed writing on the wonders, dangers, and oddities of scientific innovation and our natural world.<br><br><i>The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2016</i> includes Kathryn Schulz, Sarah Maslin Nir, Charles C. Mann, Oliver Sacks, Elizabeth Kolbert, Gretel Ehrlich, and others<br>