Reading the Roots: American Nature Writing before Walden
An anthology devoted to the United States’ earliest nature writing.
An anthology devoted to the United States’ earliest nature writing.
Marianna Dudley, Carson Fellow from October 2011 until March 2012, talks about the unusual experiences of researching militarized landscapes.
The first cholera epidemic in St. Petersburg, then capital of the Russian Empire, brought to light the city’s enormous sanitary problems. During the course of the epidemic 12,540 people sickened and 6,449 died.
The St. Petersburg flood of 1824, in which the level of the river Neva rose to the 4 meter 20 centimeter mark, is the greatest in the history of the city. The city did not recover from the destructive effects of the flood until the mid-1830s.
Eric Rutkow shows that trees were essential to the early years of the republic and indivisible from the country’s rise as both an empire and a civilization.
The river Zolotitsa is located in what is now Arkhangelsk province and flows into the White Sea. The 1980 discovery and subsequent open-pit mining of a large diamond deposit severely transformed the landscape and is threatening to destroy the ecosystem of the upper Zolotitsa region.
The Editorial Team offers an introduction to the journal Environmental Humanities.
The philosopher Timothy Morton is using the Oedipal logic to explain the human shift from a creature inferior to nature to a geophysical force on a planetary scale and to think about possible solutions for an accordingly upcoming bitter end.
Eben Kirksey on how diverging values and obligations shape relationships in multi-species worlds.
Tom Lee on the dynamism and complexity of the relationship that exists between differing kinds of knowledge.