One of our editors, Brady Fauth, sits down with anthropologist Francesca Mezzenzana to discuss her developing research into children’s human–nonhuman relationships across cultures.
The surprising career of the advertising slogan “everybody talks about the weather” is a story about political transformation.
The Azorean archipelago is a lesson not only in geography and geology but also in cooking stew.
Daniel Dumas interviews Elspeth Oppermann on handling heat in a changing climate, with a focus on how heat affects work environments.
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.
In this Springs article, historian Tom Griffiths considers Australia’s devastating 2019 and 2020 bushfires and the cultural and worldwide impact they had.
In this Springs article, historian Melanie Arndt examines how the foundations for production, perception, and consumption of heating were laid at the turn of the twentieth century.
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, professor Helen Tiffin considers the role of human overpopulation in the environmental crisis.
Frank Zelko dives into the history of teeth and shows that today’s teeth are the product of centuries of biocultural evolution.
