In this article, historian Sara M. Gregg considers the connections between North America’s Monarch butterflies, milkweed, and the legacy of European settlement.
The earthworm becomes a muse in creativity and writing as Sumana Roy’s poem takes on the perspective of the invertebrate.
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.
In this Springs article, historian Jane Carruthers explores the history and impact of energy injustice in South Africa.
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 Springs article, environmental historian Donald Worster delves into the material events behind cultural imaginaries in China, while asking for an ecological civilization. “Can humans learn, by subordinating their appetites to their brains, how to live on this earth intelligently and ethically?”
In this Springs article, environmental historian Shen Hou considers the shore lives of both Qingdao and Los Angeles.
While reading Baron von Humboldt’s 1807 Essay on the Geography of Plants, Paula Unger writes about modern science creating boundaries between the human and the nonhuman, and how Indigenous understandings transcend them.
