Ocean Swimming as Eco-Meditation
A reflection on swimming by Steve Mentz.
A reflection on swimming by Steve Mentz.
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.
In this book, Stacy Alaimo explores the influence of the newfound human intimacy with the deep sea might have on our broader relationship to the nonhuman world.
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.
The entwined history of legends, literature, limnology, and a Cold War nuclear power plant at Lake Stechlin in northeastern Germany.