“We Have Always Known”: On the Trails of People, Plants, and Humboldt
by Paula Ungar
12 minutes
I am trying to focus on my writing, I really am. But my phone buzzes again. This time, the message is difficult to ignore. I see a photograph of my be...
The Heat Is On!
21 minutes
It was an unusually hot day in Dresden in July 1903. The glinting Elbe was drifting past Bruehl’s Terrace, famous throughout the world as the “Balcony...A Dialogue on Form, Knowledge, and Representation
by Gregg Mitman and Rob Nixon
15 minutes
Gregg Mitman: Disciplines impose a certain form and structure on the world. When we see calls for multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary, or transdiscip...Australia Burning
21 minutes
In November 2019, as forest fires worked their way south along the Great Dividing Range, I walked for a week in the Australian Alps. The wild granite ...Ecological Civilization
19 minutes
Capitalism and communism have been fighting each other for more than a century and a half, until now the fight seems to have exhausted itself. A third...
The Isthmus of Panama and the Knowledge Anthropocene
18 minutes
In the final chapter of Man and Nature, his landmark 1864 study of an earth transformed by human action, George Perkins Marsh looked ahead to a...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...Filling the Blue Hole in Environmental History
6 minutes
There is a blue hole in environmental history. It remains a remarkably landlocked discipline, one that largely ignores the seven-tenths of our globe’s...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...Pitching the Anthropocene: Global Media Work and the World to Come
8 minutes
From around the age of 15, I think, I had wanted to be a journalist, and in the pre-Amazon time before print publishing’s great data-driven reckoning ...Picturing Complexity: Environmental Photojournalism in the Twentieth Century
6 minutes
Ever since the invention of photography in the late nineteenth century, animals, plants, picturesque sites, sublime landscapes, and human interactions...Uses of Environmental History: Lise Sedrez
by Lise Sedrez
4 minutes
São Paulo, the largest city in South America, is going through a historical drought. So is California, in the USA. That is how newspapers refer to the...