In this Springs article, English literature and blue humanities scholar Steve Mentz reflects on his time as a Landhaus Fellow at the Rachel Carson Center, and the bond he developed with the Steinsee.
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 Springs article, professor Helen Tiffin considers the role of human overpopulation in the environmental crisis.
In this article, environmentalist Hayal Desta considers the impact of agrarian practices and climate change on Lake Ziway, Ethiopia.
In this Springs article, historian Paul S. Sutter considers the “Knowledge Anthropocene” as well as deep time in George Perkins Marsh’s understanding of the construction of Panama’s Darién canal.
A writer and literary scholar, Sule Emmanuel Egya weaves together a personal love letter to trees with accounts of having witnessed extractive wood logging in Gombe, Nigeria. To what extent can the Gombe State tree planting policy attempt to salvage such hostility toward trees?
In this Springs article, history of technology professor Nina Wormbs explores how people justify acting unsustainably.
Frank Zelko dives into the history of teeth and shows that today’s teeth are the product of centuries of biocultural evolution.
In view of the escalating environmental crisis, the democratic states of the Global North must ecologically transform their social and constitutional orders.
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.
