The best American science and nature writing, 2016 / edited and with an introduction by Amy Stewart ; Tim Folger, series editor.

Back to the land / Chelsea Biondolillo -- Tracking ivory / Bryan Christy -- They helped erase ebola in Liberia. Now Liberia is erasing them / Helene Cooper -- Rotten ice / Gretel Ehrlich -- Why are sports bras so terrible? / Rose Eveleth -- The man who tried to redeem the world with logic / Amanda Gefter -- A very naughty little girl / Rose George -- The false gospel of Alcoholics Anonymous / Gabrielle Glaser -- Thirty million gallons under the sea / Antonia Juhasz -- The bed-rest hoax / Alexandra Kleeman -- The siege of Miami / Elizabeth Kolbert -- What's left behind / Kea Krause -- The will to change / Robert Kunzig -- The modern moose / Amy Leach -- The lost girls / Apoorva Mandavilli -- Solar, eclipsed / Charles c. Mann -- Return of the wild / Emma Marris -- Perfect nails, poisoned workers / Sarah Maslin Nir -- Attack of the killer beetles / Maddie Oatman -- The whole universe catalog / Stephen Ornes -- Bugged / Rinku Patel -- My periodic table / Oliver Sacks -- The really big one / Kathryn Schulz -- Begin cutting / Gaurav Raj Telhan -- Telescope wars / Katie Worth.