“Fishing for Sharks”
In this Springs article, Miles Powell discusses the history of shark fishing and the impact it had on shark populations as well as how these practices have evolved to this day.
In this Springs article, Miles Powell discusses the history of shark fishing and the impact it had on shark populations as well as how these practices have evolved to this day.
In this Springs article, Elin Kelsey reflects on how she first started to sleep outside, and how it brought her closer to her environment.
In this article, historian Kate Brown considers the connections between plants, biospheres, and the politics of breathing. “What can the history of controlled environments tell us,” she asks, “about how we understand the planet today?”
On Lord Howe Island, writer Cameron Muir has a run-in with a nearly extinct species: the woodhen. In the 1970s, scientists counted just 15 birds. Now the number is around 300, yet he calls this an encounter with a ghost species and contemplates how the fate of the lone bird he meets overlaps with the fate of humans.
Trees are also entangled with politics. In “An Otherworldly Species: Joshua Trees and the Conservation-Climate Dilemma” historian Thomas M. Lekan discusses what he considers a false choice between climate protection and conservation.
This article investigates the relationship between Sámi actors and environmentalists in Inari, Finland.
This article addresses the deep history of pest crops and plant diseases in historical agriculture development.