This review of Human Extinction and the Pandemic Imaginary, published by Christos Lynteris on the brink of the COVID-19 epidemic, problematises the tension between a dominant pandemic imaginary, perpetuated by outbreak preparedness policies and the media, and an emergent imaginary, historically and geographically.
A book exploring the world of succulent collecting.
An essay by Bron Taylor on Dave Foreman first published in the edited volume Wildeor: The Wild Life and Living Legacy of Dave Foreman (Essex Editions, 2023).
A book by Christina Gerhardt that weaves together essays, maps, art, and poetry to show us—and make us see—island nations in a warming world.
In this article, historian Sara M. Gregg considers the connections between North America’s Monarch butterflies, milkweed, and the legacy of European settlement.
A book by John Dargavel on how humans experience the Anthropocene in everyday life.
A book on the extinct quagga, a pony-sized zebra that inhabited southern Africa.
On Lord Howe Island, writer Cameron Muir has a run-in with a nearly extinct species: the woodhen. In the 1970s, scientists counted just 15 birds. Now the number is around 300, yet he calls this an encounter with a ghost species and contemplates how the fate of the lone bird he meets overlaps with the fate of humans.
