Poetry offers a window into the ecological, personal, and emotional. In this cluster of nature poems, Jessica Holmes attends to the profound significance of seemingly small encounters, finding in birds, bugs, flowers, and trees a space to explore ecological wonder …

Timothy Lorek compara dos calendarios históricos de Colombia que ofrecen visiones contrapuestas del presente de las plantaciones y de los futuros agrícolas …

Extinction unfolds across multiple temporalities and is mediated through a variety of cultural forms. In this essay, Yota Batsaki combines personal reflection, literary analysis, and environmental history to unpack the afterlives of the chestnut that once dominated the overstory of the American landscape …

Mount Ida, Turkey, is becoming a sacrifice zone for copper extraction driven by global green and digital transitions. Zeynep Nettekoven explores how the struggle of local communities and environmental activists reveals the ecological and cultural costs of extractivism …

Why do we think wildlife encounters are more authentic when they happen in remote places? From childhood nature documentaries to wildlife tourism and social media, Mark Rademaker shows how our ideas about “wild” nature are shaped by an idea of wilderness that overlooks the wildlife thriving alongside us in our everyday lives …

What happens when we imagine the desert as empty? Gustavo Sanchez-Bachman talks with Brahim El Guabli about his book Desert Imaginations: A History of Saharanism and Its Radical Consequences. Their conversation explores “Saharanism” and the people and ecologies obscured by dominant desert imaginaries …

Weird times call for weird recommendations. Faculty from across the disciplines share books, films, and songs that explore the ecological weird—from the uncanny and unsettling to the disorienting and unexpected …

In 2025, we began translating our archives into non-English languages. Here’s why …