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Breeding for the Future: Corn and Climate Change
Climate change impacts both the goals of corn breeders, and their current everyday research.
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Living on Coral Time: Debating Conservation in the Anthropocene
Coral scientists are dealing with an existential crisis and are divided between hope and despair in their approaches to coral conservation.
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Sandpipers and the Art of Letting Go: Narratives of Conservation in the Wadden Sea
How birds and poetry reacquaint us with an awareness of history and feelings of loss in Anthropocene nature reserves.
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Xunáan Kab Rhythms: Native Bees and Ecological Change in Yucatan, Mexico
This entry focuses on native bees and their role as narrators of regional social and ecological histories.
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The Colonial Roots of the Kangaroo Controversy
This article situates contemporary debates over kangaroo-population management within Australia’s violent history of settler-colonial occupation and attendant environmental transformations.
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Manoomin: The Taming of Wild Rice in the Great Lakes Region
Wild rice was “tamed” when domesticated in the 1950s, yet both cultivated and foraged wild rice face shared contemporary challenges.
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Capital Seeds and Hybrid Landscapes: Between Varied Landraces and Monotonous Technological Objects
This article discusses the intimate connection between seeds and landscapes through networks of non-corporate farmers, experts, politicians, and agricultural companies.
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One Century of Reindeer on South Georgia: From Introduction to Eradication
Beginning in 2013, reindeer on South Georgia—originally brought to the island by whalers in 1911—were eradicated in order to safeguard local biodiversity.
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Mumbai’s Doongerwadi Forest: Revisiting the Death of Nature in the Future City
This article explores the past and future of one of Mumbai’s largest city forests.
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Virtuous Bees: How Beekeeping Helps Protect Primary Forests in the Russian Far East
This article discusses forest beekeeping in the Russian Far East and its unique role in protecting primary forests in the context of Aristotelian ethics.