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A Blue-Green Oasis in the Heart of the Kazakh Steppe: The Korgalzhyn Nature Reserve
The Korgalzhyn nature reserve is a blue-green oasis of protected nature in the heart of the semi-arid Kazakh steppe.
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ClimateCultures: Creative Conversations for the Anthropocene
ClimateCultures was launched in 2017 and is a growing network for creative responses to the Anthropocene.
Multimedia | book excerpt
Thoreau’s Religion: Walden Woods, Social Justice, and the Politics of Asceticism
Excerpt from Thoreau’s Religion: Walden Woods, Social Justice, and the Politics of Asceticism, a new interpretation of Thoreau’s Walden.
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Of Ghost Nets and the Haunting at Nissum Bredning
This article follows “the Danish Society for a Living Sea” and their engagement with ghost nets and “local haunting dynamics.”
Multimedia | journal article
“The Less Selfish Gene: Forest Altruism, Neoliberalism, and the Tree of Life”
“Why have millions of readers and viewers become magnetized by the hitherto arcane field of plant communication? The article argues that the contemporary appeal of plant communication is rooted in a quest for alternative modes of being to neoliberalism, modes more accommodating of the coexistence of cooperation and competition in human and more-than-human communities.”
Multimedia | journal article
“‘Bringing Humanity Full Circle Back into the Sea’: Homo aquaticus, Evolution, and the Ocean”
“This article historicizes the casual and common understanding that humans are connected to the sea by investigating the precursors to the Homo aquaticus idea, the attempts to realize this prediction through technology, and the legacies emerging from it.”
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Good Foods and Bad Foods: The 1862 Measles Epidemic and Diet in Edo
This article explores changing dietary practices during the 1862 measles epidemic in Edo, Japan.
Multimedia | podcast
Interview with John Bellamy Foster, author of The Return of Nature: Socialism and Ecology
In this episode from the New Books Network podcast, John Bellamy Foster is interviewed on his book, The Return of Nature: Socialism and Ecology.
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Cryptids and Disasters: Serpents and a Werewolf in the Western Indian Ocean Region
In Tanzania and Mauritius, physical disasters are filtered through cultural lenses, including sightings of cryptids: serpents and a werewolf.
Multimedia | book excerpt
Woodland Imagery in Northern Art, c. 1500–1800
Excerpt from Woodland Imagery in Northern Art, c. 1500–1800 by Leopoldine van Hogendorp Prosperetti.