In this book, Lida Maxwell shows how Silent Springs stands as a monument to a unique, loving relationship between Rachel Carson and Dorothy Freeman, and how such love underpins a new environmental politics.
Walker focuses on uncertainty as a boundary device that shapes scientific ethos in crucial ways and negotiates a relationship between technical science and public deliberation.
The surprising career of the advertising slogan “everybody talks about the weather” is a story about political transformation.
Writer and anthropologist Amitav Ghosh takes us to the Banda Islands to unravel “The Nutmeg’s Curse.”
Explore the Moon, the world, and the self in a lyrical essay with author Christopher Cokinos.
Human geographer Mike Hulme looks at sociotechnical developments that have changed the climate and, at the same time, the way we experience the weather.
While reading Baron von Humboldt’s 1807 Essay on the Geography of Plants, Paula Unger writes about modern science creating boundaries between the human and the nonhuman, and how Indigenous understandings transcend them.
In this 1995 annual report, the Fund for Wild Nature focuses on current anti-environmental politics and the skirting of environmental laws. The purpose of the fund, its funding guidelines, areas of support, and grant projects are laid out. Their intent is to foster connections among diverse groups with the underlying philosophy of Deep Ecology.
Processing the horrid February 2025 “Killing [of] a Baboon” by a group of schoolchildren in Delmas, South Africa, Sandra Swart looks back at history and examines the role of superstition and the occult in the ongoing violence against these primates.
In Live Wild or Die! no. 3 an unnamed contributor gives an update from the revolutionary eco-terrorist Pie Brigade, held to save the redwoods in northern California’s Headwaters forest. In addition, Simon Moon calls for help with sabotaging buffalo hunting, and Anders Corr discusses the environmental impact of land ownership.
