a field of pine trees burned down with lines in the soil where they once stood

Does the U.S. Have a Fire Problem?

Richard Bednarski connects the forest fires of 1910 to the subsequent media-driven age of fire exclusion policy, despite scientific evidence for fire inclusion. Did years of this practice worsen the United States’s “fire problem” today?

a diver swims under the ocean with a school of small fish and yellow coral in the foreground, the sun filtering from above

Faculty Favorites: Environmental Care

Edge Effects invites scholars from different disciplines to introduce texts on care with the environment. These books also offer varied entries to multispecies and pluriversal topics in the classroom.

An clear-cut field with muddy ground used for monocropping, some trees in the distance.

Mourning Waste in the Anthropocene

Sophie Chao traces how Marind People of West Papua suffer the effects of monoculture toxicity while also mourning for the waste it produces.

A black rhino stands alone in a grassland savannah

Conserving Biodiversity without Preserving Settler Ecologies

Charis Enns & Brock Bersaglio use Laikipia County, Kenya to trace connections between settler colonial power and conservation, offering an “other” way of maintaining biodiversity that prioritizes Indigenous Peoples and their endangered livestock species.