animals

The work of two biologists in remote forests shows that species recovery depends on both data and human–animal bonds forged in the field, as Monica Vasile writes.

A story about the environmental conflict between GM soy growers and Maya beekeepers in the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico.

Excerpt from Species Cleansing: The Cultural Practice of Rat Control by Gabriela Jarzębowska.

Processing the horrid February 2025 “Killing [of] a Baboon” by a group of schoolchildren in Delmas, South Africa, Sandra Swart looks back at history and examines the role of superstition and the occult in the ongoing violence against these primates.

In this book, author and cultural historian L. Sasha Gora blends food studies with environmental history to explore how Indigenous restaurants reshape relationships between cuisine, land, and cultural identity in Canada.

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

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