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.

In this issue of Earth First! Journal the editors express their thoughts and ideas on life and the journal, Gavin Edwards gives an update on the Nuxalk Nation’s protests against logging in British Columbia, and Mary Brook and Orin Langelle call for attention to the rain forests of Nicaragua.

An account of how the 2024 World Congress of Environmental History developed from idea to reality, and of what this trajectory says about environmental historical scholarship today.

Donatella de Rita, Carson Fellow from April 2012 until June 2012, speaks about her research project on urban development and the associated hazard in volcanic areas, as well as on geoarcheology.