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Rachel Carson Center for Environment & Society

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International center for environmental humanities research in Munich, Germany. Website: www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de Portal: www.environmentandsociety.org Seeing the Woods: seeingthewoods.org Springs: springs-rcc.org

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Rachel Carson Center for Environment & Society @carsoncenter.bsky.social · 5h
We are thrilled to announce that 𝘚𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴 is now inviting submissions for a thematic issue on nonhuman animals and more-than-human worlds, guest-edited by Dr. Mieke Roscher. More info on springs-rcc.org/about/. #CallforSubmissions #envhum #animals #morethanhumans #RCCSprings
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Rachel Carson Center for Environment & Society @carsoncenter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
𝗧𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗪𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿: 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗽 𝗥𝗲𝗰𝗮𝗽 Led by Supriya, the workshop invited participants to think beyond water as a natural resource and instead consider its connections to memory, place, stories, justice, language, and the body.
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Rachel Carson Center for Environment & Society @carsoncenter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The Rachel Carson Center is looking to fill the position of 𝘀𝘁𝘂𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗻𝘁 (𝘴𝘵𝘶𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘴𝘤𝘩𝘦 𝘏𝘪𝘭𝘧𝘴𝘬𝘳𝘢𝘧𝘵) for 𝟲 𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗿𝘀 𝗽𝗲𝗿 𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗸 within the “Changing Environments, Changing Childhoods” (CECC) research group, led by Dr. Jan David Hauch.
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ESEH NEXTGATe @esehnextgate.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Call for Writing Support Program! Are you an early-career scholar working on a manuscript? Apply for this great opportunity with Andrea Gaynor and Mona Bieling. #envhist #envhum
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Rachel Carson Center for Environment & Society @carsoncenter.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
We’d like to highlight the essay “’The End is the Beginning’: Dispatches from the Farewell to Christof Mauch” by RCC alumna Kate Rigby! Read Kate’s piece here: www.iceho.org/news/2026/8/...
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Rachel Carson Center for Environment & Society @carsoncenter.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
We'd like to draw your attention to the latest uploads on our YouTube channel! Most of the contributions to our the final public event of the "Strengthening the Environmental Humanities" project were professionally recorded, and the final videos are now available on our YouTube channel.
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Rachel Carson Center for Environment & Society @carsoncenter.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
We look forward to going to Toronto in 2030!
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Rachel Carson Center for Environment & Society @carsoncenter.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
After a short hiatus, we are now accepting applications to our visiting scholar program. More info to be found on this page: www.sprachlit.lmu.de/carsoncenter... #envhum #envhist #researchstay #RCC
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ESEH NEXTGATe @esehnextgate.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Great study opportunity in Munich at the Rachel Carson Center! #envhist
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Rachel Carson Center for Environment & Society @carsoncenter.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Jonatan Palmblad’s seminal 𝘚𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴 essay, “The Inhuman Condition,” is now available as an audio recording. You can listen to it for free at springs-rcc.org/the-inhuman-... or on Spotify. #envhum #envhist #RCCSprings #publications #anthropocentrism @palmblad.bsky.social
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Rachel Carson Center for Environment & Society @carsoncenter.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Five more days to apply for the Environmental Studies Certificate Program for the 2026–27 winter semester! More info: www.sprachlit.lmu.de/carsoncenter... #envhum #envhist #graduatestudies #certificate #CfA
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Rachel Carson Center for Environment & Society @carsoncenter.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Join us tomorrow for the launch event of the special issue, “Imagining Planetary Health, Well-Being and Habitability.” A tour of the 𝘗𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘦𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘺 𝘏𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘵𝘩 exhibition at the Deutsches Museum will be followed by a panel discussion. RSVP for guided tour—more info: www.sprachlit.lmu.de/carsoncenter...
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Rachel Carson Center for Environment & Society @carsoncenter.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
New open-access book: Marco Armiero's Vajont: The Political Ecology of an Unnatural Disaster. This is a translation of Armiero's 2023 book in Italian, finally available in English. Read it on our Environment & Society Portal! Courtesy of MIT Press. #envhist #envhum @mitpress.bsky.social
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Vajont: The Political Ecology of an Unnatural Disaster
Full open-access volume Vajont: The Political Ecology of an Unnatural Disaster (2026) by Marco Armiero.
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Katie Ritson @untamed.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
It was a joy to be part of the celebrations, and an honour to have worked for so many years with Christof at @carsoncenter.bsky.social. Thanks to @kateelizrigby.bsky.social for writing up this shared and treasured memory!
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Rachel Carson Center for Environment & Society @carsoncenter.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Our dear alumna Kate Rigby, now Humboldt Professor in Cologne, has written an excellent piece on the celebrations of Christof Mauch in Tutzing in July. #EnvHist #EnvHum
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Rachel Carson Center for Environment & Society @carsoncenter.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Today, we’re highlighting the essay “Ignoring Religion is Not an Option” by Kate Rigby, featured in the recently published tenth issue of 𝘚𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴! Read the essay online on 𝘚𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴: springs-rcc.org/ignoring-rel... #rccpublications #RCCSprings #envhum #essay #envhis #religion
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Rachel Carson Center for Environment & Society @carsoncenter.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
The Rachel Carson Center is looking for a research associate (studentische Hilfskraft) for 20 hours per week to manage the RCC library. The position will start on 15 November 2026 or shortly thereafter #rccjobs #callforapplications #researchassistant #library #librarymanagement
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Rachel Carson Center for Environment & Society @carsoncenter.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
The Rachel Carson Center is proud participate in this winter school in Argentina. Christof Mauch, Karla Garcia, and Jonatan Palmblad will give talks on ecological justice, together with colleagues from @uam.es, @uc3m.es, UPO, EcoCastulum and the National University of the Littoral #envhum #envjust
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Rachel Carson Center for Environment & Society @carsoncenter.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
We have a writing workshop with visiting scholar and writer Supriya Kaur Dhaliwal scheduled for 22 September! More info on how to register here: www.sprachlit.lmu.de/carsoncenter...
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Rachel Carson Center for Environment & Society @carsoncenter.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Today’s highlight from the recently published tenth issue of 𝘚𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴 is “The Best is Yet to Come: Latin American Environmental History” by historian Claudia Leal! #rccpublications #RCCSprings #envhum #envhis #latinamerica #PublicHistory
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Rachel Carson Center for Environment & Society @carsoncenter.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
The Rachel Carson Center is looking for a research associate (studentische Hilfskraft) for 15 hours per week to support its managing director and editorial team. Find out more about this position and the application process on our website under “About”: www.sprachlit.lmu.de/carsoncenter...
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Rachel Carson Center for Environment & Society @carsoncenter.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Today’s highlight from the recently published tenth issue of 𝘚𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴 is “Whale Fall” by award-winning author Michaela Vieser! #rccpublications #RCCSprings #envhum #essay #whale #BreastCancer #cycleoflife
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Rachel Carson Center for Environment & Society @carsoncenter.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Join us tomorrow for the next installation of our international brown bag colloquium with Sevgi Mutlu Sirakova and Sofiá Pérez Baeza! The event is open to all members of the RCC as well as the wider public—everyone interested is warmly invited. #rcc #rccevents #colloquium #research #discussion
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Rachel Carson Center for Environment & Society @carsoncenter.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Today, we’re highlighting the essay “The Futures We Tell” by scholar Alexa Weik von Mossner, featured in the recently published tenth issue of 𝘚𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴. #rccpublications #rccsprings #envhum #Essays #ClimateAnxiety #fictionwriting #EnvironmentalChanges
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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
A neon-green solar-powered slug that lives underwater is the winner of @theguardian.com Invertebrate of the Year competition! - "It’s very, very beautiful but also very smart too - it builds its own solar panels” www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Chris Nagano @charliesaito22.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Massive ancient floods hit Medieval Europe www.science.org/content/arti...
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Medieval Europe was battered with 16 catastrophic floods in just 2 years
The intense deluges, never before documented, represent the highest number of back-to-back extreme weather events in the past 700 years
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Leana Hosea @leanahosea.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Documents uncovered by Watershed reveal evidence showing PFOS (a variety of PFAS) does not biodegrade had begun to appear as early as 1949. Until the '90s 3M continued to produce info & brochures for customers stating natural processes would break down the foams: share.google/eTdzNJCAnlns...
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3M knew firefighting foams containing PFAS were toxic, documents show
Exclusive: Newly uncovered documents reveal chemicals giant was aware ‘environmentally neutral’ products did not biodegrade
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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 18/08/2026
One of the regions that contributed to the rapid decline in #Antarctic sea ice was in the Amundsen Sea. This area can see rapidly changing ice conditions from week-to-week along the ice edge, such as due to changes in local weather patterns. Data from nsidc.org/data/seaice_...
Line graph time series of 2026's daily Antarctic sea ice extent compared to each year from 1979 to 2025 as shown with thin lines in colors from purple to white. This graph is for the Amundsen Sea region only. There is large daily variability and no long-term trend evident. The full seasonal cycle is shown. 2026 is the lowest on record for the time of year.
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Rachel Carson Center for Environment & Society @carsoncenter.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Today, we’re highlighting the essay “Time After the Hero—Or, in Proposing the Age of the Anthropoiescene” by author Zana Fraillon, featured in the recently published tenth issue of 𝘚𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴! #rccpublications #RCCSprings #envhum #essay #nonhuman #anthropoiescene
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Rachel Carson Center for Environment & Society @carsoncenter.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Today, we’re highlighting the essay “Tell Me a Story, Tell Me the World” by urban environmental humanities scholar Jamie Wang, featured in the recently published tenth issue of 𝘚𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴! (reupload) #rccpublications #RCCSprings #envhum #UrbanEnvironmentalHumanities #storytelling #environmentaljustice
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Rachel Carson Center for Environment & Society @carsoncenter.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Join us tomorrow for the next installation of our international brown bag colloquium with Aditya Mani on “From Green Narratives to Fragmented Governance: Explaining the Implementation Gap in the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC/ 中巴经济走廊 / چین پاکستان اقتصادی راہداری)”!
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Rachel Carson Center for Environment & Society @carsoncenter.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Today, we would like to highlight the short story “The Mangrove Doesn’t Forget” by the Malaysian writer Rachel Desiree Felix from the recently published tenth issue of 𝘚𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴! You can now read this article online on 𝘚𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴: springs-rcc.org/the-mangrove... #RCCSprings #mangrove #shortstory
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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
My new op-ed in The Guardian is up today. Drought, #water rationing and dry rivers: our water crisis is here | Peter Gleick | The Guardian www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Drought, water rationing and dry rivers: our water crisis is here | Peter Gleick
It doesn’t have to be this way. We know what needs to be done
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Rachel Carson Center for Environment & Society @carsoncenter.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
𝘚𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴 is now on Spotify! We’re excited to share that all audio recordings from 𝘚𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴: 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘙𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘭 𝘊𝘢𝘳𝘴𝘰𝘯 𝘊𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘙𝘦𝘷𝘪𝘦𝘸 are now available to listen to on Spotify! #envhum #envhis #RCCSprings #publications #audiorecordings #Spotify
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Rachel Carson Center for Environment & Society @carsoncenter.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Join us tomorrow for the next installation of our international brown bag colloquium with Sofía Rivera Berkhoff and Victoria Myznikova! The event is open to all members of the RCC as well as the wider public—everyone interested is warmly invited. #rccevents #colloquium #greencapitalism
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Rachel Carson Center for Environment & Society @carsoncenter.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
We just added a PDF of the full book: www.environmentandsociety.org/mml/climate-... #envhum #envhist
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Climate Crisis as a Challenge for the Humanities: A Reader
Full book, Climate Crisis as a Challenge for the Humanities: A Reader, edited by Karin Esders.
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Rachel Carson Center for Environment & Society @carsoncenter.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Today, we would like to highlight the essay “The Future of the Environmental Humanities Is Not in the Seminar Room” by historian Rob Gioielli from the recently published tenth issue of 𝘚𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴: springs-rcc.org/the-future-o... #RCCPublications #RCCSprings #envhum #academia #communication
Poster advertising an article titled "The Future of the Environmental Humanities Is Not in the Seminar Room" by Rob Gioielli, published in Springs: The Rachel Carson Center Review.
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Rachel Carson Center for Environment & Society @carsoncenter.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Christof Mauch, Jonatan Palmblad, and Karla Garcia from the Rachel Carson Center will contribute to this #EnvHum winter school on "Ecological Justice in Action" in Argentina this September!
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ICEHO @iceho.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
A reminder about the upcoming ASEH 2027 deadline on 16 August. The convenors are encouraging the submission of complete panels. Need to find someone to fill out your panel? Check this list: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... #envhist @aseh.bsky.social
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Rachel Carson Center for Environment & Society @carsoncenter.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
On Friday, 10 July, Christof Mauch celebrated the culmination of his long and successful career with friends and colleagues at the Evangelische Akademie in Tutzing. Read full news item: www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/news/news_ev...
Christof Mauch giving farewell address, titled “The End Is the Beginning.”
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Rachel Carson Center for Environment & Society @carsoncenter.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Join us tomorrow for the double #filmscreening of 𝘈𝘢𝘫𝘰𝘰𝘳 by Kuldeep Kumar and 𝘙𝘌_𝘕𝘈𝘛𝘜𝘙𝘈𝘓—𝘕𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘗𝘢𝘳𝘬 𝘉𝘢𝘺𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘞𝘢𝘭𝘥: 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘛𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘴𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘢 𝘍𝘰𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘵 by Fabian Schunder! 𝐋𝐨𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: Rachel Carson Center, fourth floor, Conference Room, Leopoldstr. 11a, 80802 Munich, Germany
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
My column on how capital becomes a death cult. Faced with a choice between profit and human life, the radical right chooses profit. Then it tries to persuade us that mass death is what we want. It's the new phase of climate denial: accept your fate, earthlings. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Murderous heat, an endangered food supply, decimated landscapes: embrace the Mediterranean life | George Monbiot
As climate disaster stares us in the face, the radical right says ‘Embrace the Mediterranean life’. Embrace death, more like it, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Rachel Carson Center for Environment & Society @carsoncenter.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
We'd like to highlight the podcast 𝘋𝘦𝘳 𝘎𝘳𝘶̈𝘯𝘦 𝘏𝘰̈𝘳𝘴𝘢𝘢𝘭, produced by the Environmental Affairs Office of the LMU Munich Student Council, especially their recently released episode, "The Rachel Carson Center—Research Focused on Humans and Their Environment!" #RCC #Podcast #LMU #Research #Environment
Social media graphic for the podcast "Der Grüne Hörsaal" episode 19.
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Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Happy International Owl Awareness Day! Please enjoy this photograph of ornithologist Herbert Brown (r) with an elf owl, the world’s smallest owl
It’s a monochrome photograph. Brown is a moustachioed gentleman wearing a brimmed hat, neckerchief and braces. The owl is perched on his upheld hand. It’s about the size of a sparrow.
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Rachel Carson Center for Environment & Society @carsoncenter.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Today’s highlight from the recently-published tenth issue of 𝘚𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴 is “Mapped Futures, Vanishing Places: On Inheritance at the Water’s Edge” by literary scholar Kumiko Kiuchi! You can now read this article online on 𝘚𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴: springs-rcc.org/mapped-futur...
Social media graphic for the Springs article "Mapped Futures, Vanishing Places: On Inheritance at the Water's Edge" by Kumiko Kiuchi.
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Rachel Carson Center for Environment & Society @carsoncenter.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Join us tomorrow at our International Colloquium with Pei-yin Lin, who will present on “Archipelagic Imaginary and Cetacean Narratives in Contemporary Taiwan” and John Agbonifo, who will present on “Relational Ecology, the Benin Bronzes, and Ecological Justice” #envhum #envhist #envjust
International colloquium taking place on 4 August 2026 from 12:00 until 14:00 at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, fourth floor, conference room
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Rachel Carson Center for Environment & Society @carsoncenter.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Today, we would like to highlight the interview “One Woman’s Waste Is Another Woman’s Treasure: A Conversation with Kim Curtis” by Regina M. Bichler and Kim Curtis from the recently-published tenth issue of 𝘚𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴! #rccpublications #RCCSprings #envhum #artist #interview #ecologicalfutures
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ICEHO @iceho.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Submit your abstract for ASEH 2027 by August 16! #EnvHist
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Rachel Carson Center for Environment & Society @carsoncenter.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
RCC alumnus Andreas Jünger has just published an open-access article on Rachel Carson's reception in Francoist Spain!
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Rachel Carson Center for Environment & Society @carsoncenter.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
How can protected areas conserve wildlife while also safeguarding people’s livelihoods? Read this new article by the Rachel Carson Center's Mengxi Kou and colleagues to learn more. #envhum
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“Current Patterns and Mitigation Strategies of Human-Wildlife Conflicts in Chinese Protected Areas”
Article by Rachel Carson Center alumna Mengxi Kou and colleagues on how protected areas can conserve wildlife while also safeguarding people’s livelihoods.
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