Content Index

In this book, Marc Landry shows how dam-building in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries transformed the Alps into Europe’s battery.

In this book, Lida Maxwell shows how Silent Springs stands as a monument to a unique, loving relationship between Rachel Carson and Dorothy Freeman, and how such love underpins a new environmental politics.

Daniel Dumas interviews Elspeth Oppermann on handling heat in a changing climate, with a focus on how heat affects work environments.

When is it defensible to keep birds in confinement, and what do we owe those who escape?

The Azorean archipelago is a lesson not only in geography and geology but also in cooking stew.

The surprising career of the advertising slogan “everybody talks about the weather” is a story about political transformation.

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.

Explore the Moon, the world, and the self in a lyrical essay with author Christopher Cokinos.

A monograph on desert dystopias and the environmental origins of apartheid.

Joana Freitas reveals the reasons, troubles, and charm of writing about sand and how poetry can be more effective than prose to describe dunes.