Content Index

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.

In a carbon-sequestering wetland on Maine’s Mid-Coast, a quirky human-beaver relationship unfolds each year.

Emmanuelle Roth and Gregg Mitman write about how capitalism fragments nature to create value. Such fragments can precipitate biodiversity loss.

Martin Saxer introduces his project “Foraging at the Edge of Capitalism” detailing how his team works and what foraging means to them.

Alison Pouliot writes about the pejorative language that has been used to describe fungi and how it has shaped our understanding of them.

The entwined history of legends, literature, limnology, and a Cold War nuclear power plant at Lake Stechlin in northeastern Germany.

This artistic contribution explores sensory engagement with contamination caused by oil-waste pits in the Ecuadorian Amazon.