During the 1990s, nature writing in the UK morphed into ‘the new nature writing’ and into environmental writing in the US. This contemporaneous transformation on both sides of the Atlantic was celebrated in two collections published in 2008. In both instances, the focus shifted from ‘lone enraptured males,’ as in the old nature writing, seeking solace and comfort in pristine places in nature ostensibly untouched by industrial capitalism and its technologies to acknowledging, confronting, and conveying the impacts and depredations of the latter on the former. In the US, Thoreau writing in the nineteenth century is seen as a crucial figure in making the transition, whereas in the UK, Richard Mabey writing from the 1980s is pivotal whose writing morphed in the 1990s into ‘the new nature writing,’ a term coined by Richard Kerridge in 2001. Mabey’s ‘new writing nature’ and that of others was included in issue 102 of Granta: The Magazine of New Writing of 2008 devoted to topics where very little attention was paid to the politics of people and places in the city and the country, the case until recently in the 2010s in Caroline Crampton’s The Way to the Sea and Rachel Lichtenstein’s Estuary.