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Arcadia, Autumn 2022, no. 14

The Mighty Streams: Coping with Rivers in the Ancient World

Krešimir Vuković

This article presents examples of ancient conceptions of rivers as more-than-human agents and their struggle with humans.

Arcadia, Autumn 2022, no. 13

Climate Change and Pastoral Nomads: Feedback Loops in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

Munkhbileg Batmunkh

This article focuses on the complicated interactions between climate change and the lives of people in and near Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.

Arcadia, Summer 2022, no. 12

What Does It Mean to Study Environments in Ukraine Now?

Darya Tsymbalyuk

An essay on Russian imperialism and the entanglement of the geologic and the military.

Arcadia, Summer 2022, no. 11

Hostage to Nuclear Power Plants: Weekly Funeral Procession Protest at the Wolsong Nuclear Power Plants, Gyeongju, South Korea

Minjung Noh and Shinyoung Kim

The residents near Wolsong Nuclear Power Plants at Gyeongju, South Korea, protest to claim their rights to live with dignity.

Arcadia, Summer 2022, no. 10

Golden Grains: Environmental Implications of Mennonite Migration to Kansas in the Late Nineteenth Century

Katherine Hill

The Mennonite migrations from Ukraine to Kansas in 1874 transformed traditional tallgrass prairie for grain production.

Arcadia, Summer 2022, no. 9

Making Rain under the Mallas

Iain Sinclair

Nepalese manuscripts on rainmaking rituals offer data on droughts in historical climate reconstructions.

Arcadia, Spring 2022, no. 8

Threats to the Hadzabe and Why We Should Care

Seth Jones

A look at the sociopolitical and environmental threats facing the Hadzabe hunter-gatherers in the Eyasi Basin, Tanzania.

Arcadia, Spring 2022, no. 7

Multispecies Walden Woods: Reevaluating Thoreau’s Religion

Alda Balthrop-Lewis

What happens when we look at Walden Woods of 1845 through a multispecies lens?

Arcadia, Spring 2022, no. 6

Early Struggles to Maintain Captive Dolphins at the New York Public Aquarium

Samantha Muka

Methods for capturing and maintaining dolphins resulted not only in knowledge about captivity requirements but also in mass deaths and suffering.

Arcadia, Spring 2022, no. 5

Cryptids and Disasters: Serpents and a Werewolf in the Western Indian Ocean Region

Jonathan R. Walz and Rory A. Walshe

In Tanzania and Mauritius, physical disasters are filtered through cultural lenses, including sightings of cryptids: serpents and a werewolf.

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Arcadia: Explorations in Environmental History is an open-access, peer-reviewed publication platform for short, illustrated, and engaging environmental histories. Embedded in a particular time and place, each story focuses on a site, event, person, organization, or species as it relates to nature and human society. By publishing digitally on the Environment & Society Portal, Arcadia promotes accessibility and visibility of original research in global environmental history and cognate disciplines.

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