The World as a Wardian Case
by Kate Brown
21 minutes
In 1829, Nathanial Bagshaw Ward, a London doctor, placed the pupa of a sphinx moth, some dirt, and a few leaves in a glass bottle and clamped on a lid...Deadly Affairs: An Art Exhibition about Toxicity
14 minutes
Sometime in 2018 I joined a tour of the Uffizi Gallery in Florence. Guided by art historian Ingrid Greenfield, it highlighted the role of trade betwee...
Encountering Ghost Species
by Cameron Muir
5 minutes
On Lord Howe Island, 600 kilometres off of Australia’s east coast, you can snorkel the world’s southernmost coral reef, clamber up a basalt mountain t...Can Brussels and Beijing Get It Right? Twenty-First Century Ecological Geopolitics
17 minutes
An explosive geopolitical landscape is confronting the world. It centers around Sino-American hyper-competition. The US-China rift, in fact, has becom...An Otherworldly Species: Joshua Trees and the Conservation-Climate Dilemma
14 minutes
About 210 km east of Los Angeles, along the boundary of the Mojave and Colorado Deserts, stands a national park dedicated to the American Southwest’s ...Where Ideas Grow: Life at the Landhaus
8 minutes
As I’m about to leave the Landhaus, the Alps are erased from the horizon. The sky is a fierce and brilliant blue, the light piercing, perfect white. O...The Poor Woods of Northern Nigeria
13 minutes
I have loved trees since childhood. Mother said she was sitting under a mango tree when her water broke and I was to be born. She carried me as a baby...Coal, War, and Peace in Twentieth-Century Europe
14 minutes
Oil is sexy. Coal, on the other hand, is boring. When we think of oil, we think of wars and military coups, dubious secret services, international cor...A World Parliament of Rivers
by Rita Brara and María Valeria Berros
13 minutes
How do we rescue rivers from the ravages of the Anthropocene epoch? Legal systems in the Global South are merging law with local customs to forge new ...