On Mount Ida, rising demand for copper exposes how the green and digital transitions can deepen inequalities.

A walk through Singapore raises questions about the uneasy divide between the wild, the natural, and the everyday.

This interview explores Brahim El Guabli’s book Desert Imaginations and its concept of Saharanism and desert imaginaries.

Faculty across the disciplines recommend books, films, and songs that engage critically with the ecological weird.

Seguir el rastro de las orquídeas en The Farming of Bones, novela de Edwidge Danticat, revela complejas tramas de cuidado, violencia y el poder perdurable del imaginario colonial.

Centered on the train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, this essay considers how accident theory changes understandings of tragic events.

Banu Subramaniam discusses her most recent book, Botany of Empire: Plants Worlds and the Scientific Legacies of Colonialism.

A series of art installations explores how plants, fungi, and technology form relationships that challenge human ideas of communication.

Agroforestry and translation share ideas of hospitality helpful for appreciating the entanglements of human and more-than-human languages.

Vick Quezada and Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra discuss the co-evolution of humans and maiz through the lens of cultural history, art, and science.

The shipbreaking industry in Bangladesh extends colonial logics that harm local farmlands, people, and ecologies.

Roots reggae artists make plantation futures audible by centering historical themes of exploitation that map onto the present.

Micaela Edelson revela los costos para la salud —a menudo ocultos— de la exposición a pesticidas en Estados Unidos, y no se trata de lo que ocurre en el supermercado.

Michael Marder talks about plant-thinking, the concept of "edges," and the work of the environmental humanities.

In Brussel's abandoned industrial sites, the invasive plant Japanese knotweed embodies the emergence of feral wetlands.

Much like contemporary emojis, lettuce in the tenth century serves as a form of symbolic intimacy between Constantine VII and his friend.

In the Sikkim Himalayas, ferns are as abundant as ways of knowing them. Local communities know them as agents and co-residents of the land.

Bad Bunny's agricultural imagery and eco-rasquache aesthetic reflects and protests historical and lived realities of Puerto Rico.

Bad Bunny's agricultural imagery and eco-rasquache aesthetic reflects and protests historical and lived realities of Puerto Rico.

Jim Endersby talks about the relationship between plants, science, expertise, and imperialism in his book The Arrival of the Fittest.

As living testament to the fluidity of borders, wetlands confound administrative, imperial rule. They resist empire.

Campesinas in Colombia have been exposed to toxic chemicals while providing critical labor and care work for the tobacco industry.

Flatland como ficción climática y sostiene que las posibilidades de transformación del futuro ya están presentes en nuestro mundo.

Garden City, a collaborative artwork, combines archival photographs and speculative fabulation to recraft the history of Brazil's Tree Day

Zachari Logan's drawings and sculptures of arctic plant life depict a queer rewilding of icescapes and human relationship to plants and ice.

Sonja Trom Eayrs discusses factory farming, rural politics, and Big Ag’s influence on communities and the environment in the American Midwest.

Margaryta Golovchenko and Marta Wolny review Marx for Cats: A Radical Bestiary by Leigh Claire La Berge (Duke University Press, 2023).

Potatoes are living archives of extraction, adaptation, and care. Their presence in the kitchen anchors these histories in everyday life.

Where the bacterial meets the queer, where performance meets plastic, Alex Côté Hallé describes his relational approach to art.

Marcos Colón compartilha as histórias inéditas de violência, poluição e ativismo que descobriu enquanto filmava seu novo documentário, Beyond Fordlândia.

Andrea Natan Feltrin always felt they attuned to the rhythms of the natural world differently than others. Queer ecology provided a language for these intuitions.

Jennifer Case and Chelsea Steinauer-Scudder talk about their recent books about mothering in this era of political and climate crisis.

What does a garden become in winter? Seasonal change and cultural expectations shape what we notice and what we learn to recognize as life.

Catholic holiday plants enshrine colonialism as Catholic tradition in the U.S. Through the poinsettia and Easter lily, capitalism reigns.

Multispecies pedagogy and experiential learning challenge dominant ecological narratives of invasive plants and human mastery.

Las fotografías de los nidos del ave jardinera y del pez globo dan cuenta de una colaboración artística entre la llamada “vida silvestre” y quienes la fotografían.

Invasive apple snails pose a challenge to this Coca Cola-funded micro-wetland's restoration goals. Nature is rarely as obedient as assumed.

The Mesquite Mile, a living art installation, use honey mesquite to rethink "weediness" and to imagine a future nature.

Alligator Alcatraz relies on carceral ecology, using landscapes to function as "natural prisons." Climate crisis will make this more common.

Erin Hassett writes about fireflies and their decline, reflecting on her intimate relationship with them and thinking of a better future.

The Newtown Creek, a toxic waterway, is a site of queer ecology. Its sludge, dandelion wilds, and industrial ruins unsettles binaries.

El Antropoceno da nombre al cambio ambiental provocado por la acción humana. El Plantacionoceno sitúa el colonialismo, el capitalismo y las jerarquías raciales persistentes en el centro de la conversa...

These maps of rattlesnakes' lives in the San Rafael Swell of Utah speak to the snakes' relationship with humans.

The environmental humanities belong to everyone. Translation is presence, community, solidarity, and resistance.

The film Among the Palms the Bomb experiments with the invisible and unknowable, speaking to how we might become attuned to toxic landscapes.

Abby Reyes discusses her new book, Truth Demands: A Memoir of Murder, Oil Wars, and the Rise of Climate Justice, with Carolina Sarmiento.

Errol Morris's The Gates of Heaven documentary and the politics of dead pets it captures is a prehistory of the growing land crisis.

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