“Monsanto’s Past and Our Future”
Lunchtime Colloquium at the Rachel Carson Center with Bart Elmore.
Lunchtime Colloquium at the Rachel Carson Center with Bart Elmore.
A look at the sociopolitical and environmental threats facing the Hadzabe hunter-gatherers in the Eyasi Basin, Tanzania.
Nepalese manuscripts on rainmaking rituals offer data on droughts in historical climate reconstructions.
The Mennonite migrations from Ukraine to Kansas in 1874 transformed traditional tallgrass prairie for grain production.
Making more beer for eighteenth-century London’s growing population increased the need for clean water. Efforts to guarantee supplies to the brewers had an effect on both urban and rural landscapes.
An edited volume on the soybean, one of the world’s most important commodities.
A short excerpt from The Making of Modern Agriculture: Nelson Rockefeller’s American International Association (AIA) in Latin America (1946–1968), a book by Claiton Marcio da Silva published in 2023.
In this article, environmentalist Hayal Desta considers the impact of agrarian practices and climate change on Lake Ziway, Ethiopia.
In this Springs article, historian Paul S. Sutter considers the “Knowledge Anthropocene” as well as deep time in George Perkins Marsh’s understanding of the construction of Panama’s Darién canal.
We know where trees grow, but what about ideas? Writer and literary scholar Samantha Walton used to think of research centers as static offices and corridors, hubs for ideas to cluster and sprout. But at the Landhaus, an eco-farm in Bavaria, it is on walks with other fellows where their “thoughts strung out like threads across the paths” they traversed together.