Multimedia | book excerpt
A Perfect Storm in the Amazon Wilderness
Chapters from Timothy J. Killeen’s book A Perfect Storm in the Amazon Wilderness.
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Arcadia
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.
Multimedia | journal article
“Belonging”
In this article for the special section “Living Lexicon for the Environmental Humanities,” Emily O’Gorman unpacks “belonging” through her research on environmental histories of rice growing in the Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area, located in south-central New South Wales, Australia.
Exhibition chapter
Lecturas complementarias | De lupas a telescopios
Lecturas complementarias lista de la exposición virtual de Ricardo Rozzi et al., De lupas a telescopios: Explorando el microcosmos y el macrocosmos en los laboratorios bioculturales de Chile.
Exhibition chapter
Introducción: Visibilizar lo invisible en los laboratorios naturales de las zonas extremas de Chile | De lupas a telescopios
Introduccíon de la exposición virtual de Ricardo Rozzi et al., De lupas a telescopios: Explorando el microcosmos y el macrocosmos en los laboratorios bioculturales de Chile.
Exhibition chapter
Introduction: Making the Invisible Visible in the Natural Laboratories of Chile’s Extreme Zones | From Hand Lenses to Telescopes
The introduction to the virtual exhibition “From Hand Lenses to Telescopes: Exploring the Microcosm and Macrocosm in Chile’s Biocultural Laboratories.”
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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.
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“Roots through Asphalt: A Conversation with Sonja Dümpelmann”
In this Springs article, landscape historian Sonja Dümpelmann and Rachel Carson Center editor Pauline Kargruber discuss plants in an urban environment.
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“‘We Have Always Known’: On the Trails of People, Plants, and Humboldt”
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.
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“Five Ways of Seeing the Steinsee”
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.