In this podcast episode, Michał Kępski speaks with Anna Barcz about her research on the historiography of rivers focusing on the interdisciplinary study of rivers, both as physical entities and cultural symbols.

Anthropologist Paolo Gruppuso and geographer Erika Garozzo ruminate on the life of Sicily’s largest but now disappearing river—the Simeto.

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.