Front Cover; Front Matter; Half Title; Guest Editors of The Best American Science and Nature Writing; Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Introduction; Chelsea Biondolillo: Back to the Land; Bryan Christy: Tracking Ivory; Garamba's Victims; The Problem Solver; "I Want Ivory for Ammunition"; "You Are a Liar!"; Garamba's Warriors; Planting the Fake Tusks; Unwitting Targets; Sudan's Complicity; A Kony Hideout; Where Next?; Helene Cooper: They Helped Erase Ebola in Liberia. Now Liberia Is Erasing Them.; Gretel Ehrlich: Rotten Ice; Rose Eveleth: Why Are Sports Bras So Terrible?

Amanda Gefter: The Man Who Tried to Redeem the World with LogicRose George. A Very Naughty Little Girl; Gabrielle Glaser: The False Gospel of Alcoholics Anonymous; Antonia Juhasz: Thirty Million Gallons Under the Sea; Alexandra Kleeman: The Bed-Rest Hoax; Elizabeth Kolbert: The Siege of Miami; Kea Krause: What's Left Behind; Robert Kunzig: The Will to Change; Amy Leach: The Modern Moose; Apoorva Mandavilli: The Lost Girls; Girl Power; Hidden Hurt; Social Networks; Growing Up; Deeper Worries; Different Worlds; New Understanding; Charles C. Mann: Solar, Eclipsed; Emma Marris: Return of the Wild.

Sarah Maslin Nir: Perfect Nails, Poisoned Workers"They Cannot Breathe"; Miscarriages and Warnings; "Fox Guarding the Henhouse"; Standing in the Breeze; Maddie Oatman: Attack of the Killer Beetles; Stephen Ornes: The Whole Universe Catalog; Reality's Deepest Secrets; The Man with the Plan; Proving It Again; The Next Generation; Rinku Patel: Bugged; Oliver Sacks: My Periodic Table; Kathryn Schulz: The Really Big One; Gaurav Raj Telhan: Begin Cutting; Katie Worth: Telescope Wars; The Big Deal; Conflicting Designs; Divided They Fall; Too Many Telescopes; Back Matter; Contributors' Notes.

Best-selling author Amy Stewart edits this year's volumeof the finest science and nature writing.