Thank God for the Coal Rollers
20 minutes
Last summer, I was driving the family SUV home after a day of mountain biking here in the Northern Rockies of Montana. Although I was going a bit fast...
One Woman’s Waste Is Another Woman’s Treasure: A Conversation with Kim Curtis
by Kim Curtis, and Regina M. Bichler
18 minutes
Kim Curtis is a fine artist whose work explores the history of landscape. In moments of insomnia, in order to guarantee herself a positive story, she ...Mapped Futures, Vanishing Places: On Inheritance at the Water’s Edge
22 minutes
I began thinking about the inheritance of memory not in a classroom or a library, but at the edge of a half-closed moat on Tsukudajima, an artificial ...The Future of the Environmental Humanities Is Not in the Seminar Room
by Rob Gioielli
10 minutes
Don’t get me wrong. I love a good seminar room discussion. Properly structured, with the right group of students or colleagues, a good text or topic t...The Mangrove Doesn’t Forget
13 minutes
The boat nudges against a half-drowned jetty, its wooden planks swollen and soft from the rains. Mira hesitates before stepping off. The tide is low, ...Tell Me a Story, Tell Me the World
by Jamie Wang
12 minutes
Amid an unprecedented socioenvironmental crisis, we continue to invent new words and concepts in an effort to respond to geological transformation and...Time After the Hero—Or, in Proposing the Age of the Anthropoiescene
16 minutes
Anthropo—forming terms relating to humanity or human beings; of multiple origins, borrowing from Latin, anthrōpo, and Greek, anthrōpos, “man; human be...The Futures We Tell
15 minutes
Keeping up with climate news has been hard recently, and not only because it is often buried beneath the screaming headlines of seemingly more immedia...The Best Is Yet to Come: Latin American Environmental History
by Claudia Leal
19 minutes
We humans are animals, our bodies teem with microscopic life, and our societies have developed in constant interaction with a material world that we c...Whale Fall
13 minutes
When a whale dies, it starts a slow sink to the bottom of the sea. What arrives and remains is called a whale fall. Unlike the carcasses of most aquar...Ignoring Religion Is Not an Option
by Kate Rigby
12 minutes
It is high time that the environmental humanities got religion. Don’t worry. This is not a call for conversion. At least not to any one faith traditio...Editor’s Note: Imagining Environmental Futures
by Christof Mauch, Pauline Kargruber, and Haley Snyder
6 minutes
The tenth issue of Springs: The Rachel Carson Center Review asks: What is the future of the environment? Participants from around the globe wer...