Under Another Sky
2 minutes
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...
Coexisting with Nature: The Huts of the Camargue Wetlands
6 minutes
Historians are just beginning to explore what ordinary buildings can teach us about practices of environmental adaptation across the globe. In a count...What Living in Space Teaches Us about Living on Earth
by David Munns
6 minutes
To live among the stars always meant solving the down-to-earth problem of sustainable waste management....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....Fishing for Souls: Water Technology and the Dutch Baroque
5 minutes
Early modern interaction with water, be it through coastal flooding, stranded sea-life, or trial by ordeal, was one of the totemic means of decoding a...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 ...Entangled Nature: The Stirling Range National Park
15 minutes
From the top of Mount Trio, the Stirling Range National Park appears covered in khaki velvet, a little threadbare in parts, but soft in the folds. Str...The Constitution of the Republic of Ecuador: Pachamama Has Rights
5 minutes
Nature has recently been recognized as a subject rather than an object of rights in some Latin American countries. This is the case in Bolivia, on a l...How to Read a Bridge
by Rob Nixon
13 minutes
I grew up in South Africa, our planet’s most inequitable society, and immigrated to the USA, the rich world’s most unequal one, a country in which 400...Chernobyl Mono-Cropped
by Kate Brown
9 minutes
In 2004, I spent a week in the Chernobyl Zone of Alienation. Strangely, I found that the post-nuclear landscape had the feel of an open-air ethnograph...