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 ...Power Poverty: Energy Injustice in South Africa
12 minutes
Reflecting on his arrival in Johannesburg from the Eastern Cape in 1941, Nelson Mandela recalled, “We saw before us, glinting in the distance, a maze ...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 ...In Praise of Weeds: Sympoiesis at St. James’s Piccadilly
by Kate Rigby
6 minutes
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 ...
Under Another Sky
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The Indian village of Piplantri celebrates the birth of every newborn girl by planting 111 trees. In her new film, Under Another Sky, RCC alu...Is All Environmental Humanities Feminist Environmental Humanities?
by Lauren LaFauci and Cecilia Åsberg
10 minutes
The genealogy of environmental humanities as a field is difficult to map precisely because the field resists singular or definitive categorization wit...Watch and Act, Summer
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At first, there are only a couple of photos. The usual places: The Guardian, Instagram, Facebook. I trace the fire as it creeps down and across...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....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 ...The Reinheitsgebot: Between German Consumer Culture and the European Market
7 minutes
On 15 July, 1987, West German federal president Richard von Weizsäcker received a letter from one Andreas Z., which began: “Much has been written abou...