Offering Solutions
Zelko expresses skepticism about the transformative potential of environmental history, arguing that it is often more useful to historians than to addressing global crises.
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Woodland Rambles
Kieko Matteson reflects on her childhood in Vermont, emphasizing how material traces such as stone walls and agricultural features reveal past land use and human-environment interactions.
More Than Territory: The Cultural and Ecological Importance of Indigenous People’s Ties to the Andean-Amazonian Conservation Area Cordillera Escalera
Freshwater Fish Invasion as Deliberate Neglect: Unpacking Multispecies Colonialism in West Papua
Arcadia, Autumn 2025, no. 10
Dear Optimistic Future Self
Cameron Muir’s letter explores the struggle to maintain hope amid despair, emphasizing the need to confront harsh realities rather than seek comfort in narratives.
“Killing a Baboon: Applied History and the Anthropocene Ape”
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.
“Apartheid’s Baboons: How the State Weaponised Animal Bodies”
Lunchtime Colloquium at the Rachel Carson Center with Sandra Swart.
Massive Body Loss (website)
This website is an open-access data-visualization project documenting events that caused massive body loss in and around Turkey in the last century.
The Global Environmental Justice Atlas (EJAtlas)
The EJAtlas is an interactive online platform coordinated and managed by researchers and activists.
“The Amazon before the Constitutional Court of Ecuador”
A Tuesday Discussion with Lena Köhn.