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Book Synopsis1. Introduction: Urgency and its Downfalls: How Have We Covered Nature and Have We Done it Right?.- 2. Anna Krien's Into The Woods and how to report on Environmental Activism.- 3. John Joseph Mathews: The Blackjack Discourse' of an Osage Naturalist.- .4. Edible Armageddon. Insect Superheroes and Other Villains.-5. Toward an Activist Aesthetic of Environmental Literary Journalism: Deep and Social Ecology in Thoreau, Carson, and Jenkins.-6. The Bitter Taste of Extinction: Writing the Environmental Crisis Through Food.-7. Silent Spring: the rise of the environmental movement.-8. Alive to the slow terror of the megadams: The literary journalism of Jacques Leslie's Deep Water.-9. Revisiting places and people: how immersion and cohesion are created in Danish digital longform journalism that deals with climate change.- 10. Environmental activism and resistance in Latin America: Literary journalism's portrayal of the struggle of environmental leaders.- 11. An Ecologist's Personal Investigation: Sandra Steingraber on Danger, Ecology, and Writing.- 12. How Marjory Stoneman Douglas Saved Environmental Reporting (and maybe the Everglades).- 13.The Naturalist as Literary Journalist: David Attenborough's sixty years of documentary film-making.- 14.Interviewing Nature: The Dangers and Delights of the Pathetic Fallacy and Anthropomorphism in Nature Writing and Environmental Journalism.- 15. Thanatos syndrome: Literary forms in Domoslawski's Death in the Amazon.- 16. It's Personal: Women's Writing on Weather Disaster in the Context of Climate Crisis in Australia.- 17. The Big Picture and the Small Scene: Anna Tsing's Assemblages vs. Paul Engle's Workshop, and the Nature In Between.