Excerpt from The American Steppes: The Unexpected Russian Roots of Great Plains Agriculture, 1870s–1930s by former Rachel Carson Center fellow David Moon.
In this episode from the New Books Network podcast, former Rachel Carson Center fellow David Moon is interviewed on his new book, The American Steppes: The Unexpected Russian Roots of Great Plains Agriculture, 1870s–1930s.
Extract from Nina Munteanu’s Water is…—a book on the meaning of water.
This is a commentary on COVID-19 and its relation to human and environmental systems.
This article discusses the limits of warnings issued by scientists and what is needed for actual change.
This essay looks at the career of Marston Bates and his turn from mosquito researcher to public intellectual.
Excerpt from the book American Tropics: The Caribbean Roots of Biodiversity Science by Megan Raby.
This article suggests an alternative understanding of global warming and gives a thermodynamic and historical account of ecological destruction.
This article discusses apocalyptic imagination in and beyond the sciences.
