Monarchs of the Great Plains: Plant Power and Colonial Legacies in North America
17 minutes
Resplendent in shades of orange and black as they float along the breeze, migratory Monarch butterflies have ridden the gusts of transformation over t...Earthworm
by Sumana Roy
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Sumana Roy’s “Earthworm” is a tribute to the worms beneath our feet, serving as a reminder of the wondrous power and fragility in the everyday....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 ...A Crab’s-Eye View of the Food Chain in Contemporary China
6 minutes
This article rethinks Chinese foodways and invasive species from a crab’s perspective....Lockdown and Locked In: Houseplants and Covid-19
12 minutes
Just before the official lockdown was announced in Scotland, I moved all of my office plants home. There was no space for them in my room, but I rearr...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...Uses of Environmental History: John R. McNeill
8 minutes
“As Useful as We Want to Be” Environmental or ecological historians do not “need to become more useful and practical” in anything. They sho...Animal Rights vs. Bullfights: The Horns of an Indian Dilemma
by Rita Brara
6 minutes
Animal rights activists in India have been at the forefront of a legal campaign against jallikattu—a form of bullfighting in the province of Tami...The Beast of the Forest
15 minutes
“Puzzling are the ways of wild animals,” wrote James Stevenson-Hamilton. And even more puzzling, surely, are the ways of humans, especially in their e...