Frank Zelko dives into the history of teeth and shows that today’s teeth are the product of centuries of biocultural evolution.

Ukraine’s Dnipro River and nearby inhabitants have lived through brute-force environmental change and war over the last century.

This essay brings previously underexplored paths of political ecology, environmental history, and even biosemiotics and plant neurophysiology in Italo Calvino’s The Baron in the Trees (1957) to light.

The entwined history of legends, literature, limnology, and a Cold War nuclear power plant at Lake Stechlin in northeastern Germany.