Kelsey Green and Franklin Ginn investigate the response to colony collapse disorder (CCD) of a committed group of beekeepers, examining the philosophies and practices of alternative apiculture along two axes: the gifts of honey and poison; longing, connection, and bee-worship.
David Bello explores the fraught struggle between humans and locusts for occupancy of the agricultural niches created by farmers during China’s Qing dynasty.
Wild Earth 10, no. 3 features essays on “little things”: the microbial microcosm, forgotten pollinators like birds and bats, the American burying beetle, and butterflies.
Through a short account of French reclamation in Algeria, this paper shows that it is between two divergent notions of environmental agency—environments acted upon and environments acting—that unruliness emerges as a provocative and potentially useful theme for environmental historians.
This is a chapter of the virtual exhibition “Welcome to the Anthropocene: The Earth in Our Hands”—written and curated by historian Nina Möllers.
Together with the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, the Deutsches Museum hosted a major special exhibition on the Anthropocene from December 2014 – September 2016, which was curated by Nina Möllers. Coined by the atmospheric chemist and Nobel Prize laureate Paul J. Crutzen, the term “Anthropocene” describes the idea of a new geological era shaped by deep interventions into nature by humans as biological and geological agents.
Nina Möllers
The Jefferson National Expansion Memorial Park has experienced an infestation of emerald ash borer beetles. In October 2010 the National Park Service began for a tree replacement program to revitalize the park.
Discovered as an insecticide by Swiss chemist Paul Hermann Müller in 1939, DDT is used to fight typhus and malaria during WWII; it is approved for public insecticide use by the FDA in 1945.
A cultural history of bees and beekeeping in the United States.
