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...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...
Der Bartgeier
by Jake Goetz
1 minute
Intertwining research and field notes, this poem traces the complex relationship between humans and the bone-eating Alpine bird, the bearded vulture. ...How We Got Here
by Rowan Deer
13 minutes
Perhaps all I’m good for, at my age, is telling stories. I’ve told many in my time, long and textured and short and cryptic, some that tuck themselves...
Ecocomics: Vivid Worlds in Images and Text
24 minutes
I grew up on Disney’s Duck Tales (1988–) comics, casually enraptured by the adventures of ducks, mice, and dogs. Later, I encountered the chilling kin...Science in Fiction: A Brief Look at Communicating Climate Change Through the Novel
19 minutes
Responding to Lynda Walsh’s argument for looking at alternative models of knowledge production—and taking into account Jeroen Oomen’s argument in favo...Rain, Carson, Art, Salt: A Venetian Matrix
22 minutes
Early September 2024: When, on the morning of my third day in Venice, I wake and grab my phone to check the weather app, I am met by the same orange b...The Magic Mirror: Legends, Limnology, and Nuclear Power on Lake Stechlin
by Jessica Lee
15 minutes
On the horizon of the small German village of Neuglobsow, the chimney of the Rheinsberg nuclear power plant rises above the surrounding beech and pine...Five Ways of Seeing the Steinsee
by Steve Mentz
7 minutes
On my last day as a Landhaus fellow at the Rachel Carson Center, with thin December light not quite thawing the snow, I abandoned packing to hike out ...