Anthropocene Days
A book by John Dargavel on how humans experience the Anthropocene in everyday life.
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.
Article from a special issue on animal history.
Article from a special issue on animal history.
In this episode from the New Books Network podcast, Juno Salazar Parreñas is interviewed on her new book, Decolonizing Extinction: The Work of Care in Orangutan Rehabilitation.
Facing It is a podcast about love, loss, and the natural world, written and narrated by Jennifer Atkinson.