Hagood looks at Rachel Carson’s earlier popular publications on the natural history of the oceans and their impact on Silent Spring (1962).
In this Springs article, history of technology professor Nina Wormbs explores how people justify acting unsustainably.
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.
Explore the Moon, the world, and the self in a lyrical essay with author Christopher Cokinos.
Lunchtime Colloquium at the Rachel Carson Center with Mona Bieling.
Lunchtime Colloquium at the Rachel Carson Center with Mark Stoll.
The entwined history of legends, literature, limnology, and a Cold War nuclear power plant at Lake Stechlin in northeastern Germany.
Sevgi Mutlu Sirakova explores the microbial cultures of tarhana and the culinary heritage and human traditions they come with, from the Middle East to the Balkans.
