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Silent Spring
Silent Spring describes the harmful effects of pesticides on the environment, and is widely credited with helping launch the environmental movement.
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“Earthworm”
The earthworm becomes a muse in creativity and writing as Sumana Roy’s poem takes on the perspective of the invertebrate.
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Entmoot! The Washington Earth First! Newsletter, Spring 1994
This Spring 1994 issue of Entmoot! encourages environmental activists to take direct action about issues such as the eradication of wild salmon and the reintroduction of wolves.
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“Home, Roots, Cosmos: A Path through Calvino’s Ecology”
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.
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“Beavering”
In a carbon-sequestering wetland on Maine’s Mid-Coast, a quirky human-beaver relationship unfolds each year.
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“Monarchs of the Great Plains: Plant Power and Colonial Legacies in North America”
In this article, historian Sara M. Gregg considers the connections between North America’s Monarch butterflies, milkweed, and the legacy of European settlement.
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“The Value of Fragments: Making a Hotspot in Mount Nimba, Liberia”
Emmanuelle Roth and Gregg Mitman write about how capitalism fragments nature to create value. Such fragments can precipitate biodiversity loss.
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Wild Earth 12, no. 4
Wild Earth 12, no. 4, features an interview with Sylvia Earle on “Our Oceans, Ourselves,” essays on worldwide fishing and consumer conscience, on launching a sea ethic, and the food web complexity in kelp forest ecosystems.
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“Avian Escapees and Budgie Snugglers”
When is it defensible to keep birds in confinement, and what do we owe those who escape?
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“Encountering Ghost Species”
On Lord Howe Island, writer Cameron Muir has a run-in with a nearly extinct species: the woodhen. In the 1970s, scientists counted just 15 birds. Now the number is around 300, yet he calls this an encounter with a ghost species and contemplates how the fate of the lone bird he meets overlaps with the fate of humans.