In this episode from the New Books Network podcast, Nancy Langston is interviewed on her book, Climate Ghosts: Migratory Species in the Anthropocene.
Full book co-edited by former Rachel Carson Center fellow Marcus Hall.
Volume 1 of 3 of A Perfect Storm in the Amazon Wilderness.
In this episode from the New Books Network podcast, Alison F. Richard is interviewed on her recent book, Sloth Lemur’s Song: Madagascar from the Deep Past to the Uncertain Present.
In this episode from the New Books Network podcast, Timothy Morton is interviewed on their recent book, Hyperobjects: Philosophy and Ecology after the End of the World.
Spanish translation of chapter 1 from Timothy J. Killeen’s book A Perfect Storm in the Amazon Wilderness.
Spanish translation of chapter 1 from Timothy J. Killeen’s book A Perfect Storm in the Amazon Wilderness.
In this article, historian Kate Brown considers the connections between plants, biospheres, and the politics of breathing. “What can the history of controlled environments tell us,” she asks, “about how we understand the planet today?”
On Lord Howe Island, writer Cameron Muir has a run-in with a nearly extinct species: the woodhen. In the 1970s, scientists counted just 15 birds. Now the number is around 300, yet he calls this an encounter with a ghost species and contemplates how the fate of the lone bird he meets overlaps with the fate of humans.
Lunchtime Colloquium at the Rachel Carson Center with Miles Powell.
