Periodicals

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 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, historian Jane Carruthers explores the history and impact of energy injustice in South Africa.

In this Springs article, historian J. R. McNeill considers Chicago’s steel industry both past and present, and the history of the land.

This short piece by former Rachel Carson Center fellow Lisa Sideris is a contribution to the Great Transition Initiative’s forum Big History and Great Transition.

The earthworm becomes a muse in creativity and writing as Sumana Roy’s poem takes on the perspective of the invertebrate.

In this article, historian Sara M. Gregg considers the connections between North America’s Monarch butterflies, milkweed, and the legacy of European settlement.

In this Springs article, historian Tom Griffiths considers Australia’s devastating 2019 and 2020 bushfires and the cultural and worldwide impact they had.

This article reconsiders the relevance of Peter Kropotkin’s notion of mutual aid in evolution, which holds that cooperation is a more decisive factor than competition both among human and nonhuman animals.

In this article, the authors re-envision the ‘shifting baseline syndrome” in an ecological context.