In Praise of Weeds: Sympoiesis at St. James’s Piccadilly
by Kate Rigby
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At 7:54 p.m. on 14 October 1940, the church of St. James’s Piccadilly, in the heart of London, was hit by high explosive and incendiary bombs. By the ...A Crab’s-Eye View of the Food Chain in Contemporary China
6 minutes
This article rethinks Chinese foodways and invasive species from a crab’s perspective....Coexisting with Nature: The Huts of the Camargue Wetlands
6 minutes
Historians are just beginning to explore what ordinary buildings can teach us about practices of environmental adaptation across the globe. In a count...What Living in Space Teaches Us about Living on Earth
by David Munns
6 minutes
To live among the stars always meant solving the down-to-earth problem of sustainable waste management....Living on Coral Time: Debating Conservation in the Anthropocene
6 minutes
Coral scientists are dealing with an existential crisis and are divided between hope and despair in their approaches to coral conservation....Fishing for Souls: Water Technology and the Dutch Baroque
5 minutes
Early modern interaction with water, be it through coastal flooding, stranded sea-life, or trial by ordeal, was one of the totemic means of decoding a...Dike 14, Cleveland, Ohio: Containing Pollution in the Age of Ecology
6 minutes
Environmental activism in the 1960s forced the Army Corps of Engineers to limit the open-water dumping of dredge spoils in the Great Lakes and create ...Once Upon a Game Reserve: Sambisa and the Tragedy of a Forested Landscape
5 minutes
The Sambisa Forest, located in Borno State in northeast Nigeria, has become synonymous with Boko Haram terrorism. Boko Haram has waged a bloody war ag...Animal Rights vs. Bullfights: The Horns of an Indian Dilemma
by Rita Brara
6 minutes
Animal rights activists in India have been at the forefront of a legal campaign against jallikattu—a form of bullfighting in the province of Tami...The Constitution of the Republic of Ecuador: Pachamama Has Rights
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Nature has recently been recognized as a subject rather than an object of rights in some Latin American countries. This is the case in Bolivia, on a l...