Content Index

This article explores changing dietary practices during the 1862 measles epidemic in Edo, Japan.

“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.”

“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.”

This article follows “the Danish Society for a Living Sea” and their engagement with ghost nets and “local haunting dynamics.”

ClimateCultures was launched in 2017 and is a growing network for creative responses to the Anthropocene.

The Korgalzhyn nature reserve is a blue-green oasis of protected nature in the heart of the semi-arid Kazakh steppe.

What connects the sci-fi book Dune with coastal dunes and geoengineering?

Excerpts from the book Yangzi Waters: Transforming the Water Regime of the Jianghan Plain in Late Imperial China by former RCC fellow Yan Gao.