Jackson, Jeremy, “How We Wrecked the Ocean”
A leader in the study of the ecology and evolution of marine organisms, Jeremy Jackson is known for his deep understanding of geological time.
A leader in the study of the ecology and evolution of marine organisms, Jeremy Jackson is known for his deep understanding of geological time.
Wild Earth 7, no. 3 features contributions by Bill McKibben on “Job and Wilderness;” Donald Worster on “The Wilderness of History;” Richard Harris on the rivers of Catalonia, Spain; and Andrew Kroll and Dwight Barry on the integration of conservation and community in Colorado.
Wild Earth 12, no. 1, focuses on the causes, processes and recovery chances of biodiversity loss. It spotlights the Rocky Mountain locust, the passenger pigeon, wolves in Yellowstone, and the black-tailed prairie dog.
Wild Earth 13, no. 1, features essays that present contrasting views on mountain biking in the wilderness, the Clovis culture and origins of ecological awareness, as well as the National Wilderness Preservation System and wilderness abuse.
Wild Earth 13, no. 4, focuses on the National Wildlife Refuge System with essays on its history, the wildlife refuge in Southeastern Oregon, wildlands ofthe Great Plains, and pronghorn extinction in the Sonoran Desert.
This film follows the filmmaker to the remote temperate rainforest of Vancouver Island, and shows how modern logging, in contrast to indigenous forestry practices, is leading to its rapid extinction.
This film examines the rapid extinction of the passenger pigeon by 1914, its lessons for the future, and plans from the “de-extinction” movement to reverse the event using genetic science.
In the special section titled “Living Lexicon for the Environmental Section,” Simon Pooley reflects on the decisions and implications of conferring the status of “endangered species” on animals.
In the “Living Lexicon for the Environmental Section” of Environmental Humanities, Maan Barua reveals encounters as spatializing and “ecologizing” politics in ways that are vital for the environmental humanities’ efforts to redistribute powers to act and to flourish.
In this introduction to the special issue on Multispecies Studies, Thom van Dooren, Eben Kirksey, and Ursula Münster provide an overview of the emerging field of multispecies studies. Unsettling given notions of species, the article explores a broad terrain of possible modes of classifying, categorizing, and paying attention to the diverse ways of life that constitute worlds.