Grappling with the Drying Riverbeds of the Agua Fria
As the once flowing Agua Fria river runs dry, Rachel Howard discusses how Arizona communities are living with climate change.
Category: Essays
Wilderness Has a Purity Problem
What does it mean for a landscape to be pristine? Ande Peersen reflects on her love of the outdoors and her work for the U.S. Forest Service to interrogate the nature–culture divide.
Environmental Evacuation Is a Collective Problem
Max Lubell looks to contraflow traffic signs to argue that climate change discourses must include a renewed focus on evacuation from disasters.
What Minnesota’s Mineral Gaze Overlooks
Minnesota state agencies have a history of seeing the landscape with an eye toward extraction, writes Andrew Hoyt, ignoring water resources and Indigenous sovereignty in favor of risky mining.
BBC’s The Green Planet Puts Plants in the Spotlight
James Weldon reviews BBC’s docuseries The Green Planet, and considers whether new film technology can help humans better understand plants.
When Wetland Restoration and Big Oil Collide
Walking through the Baytown Nature Center near Houston, Texas, Gardiner Brown traces how this wildlife sanctuary is enmeshed with the local petrochemical industry and makes a case for imperfect restoration.
Getting Kinky With Ecology
Developing a theory of kink ecology, Madeleine Bavley imagines a more pleasurable future for the environmental movement.
Traces of Industry in the Trees of Jefferson National Forest
Chelsea Fisher follows the entangled histories of iron and paper in a second-growth forest.
The Chemical Contract
Micaela Edelson reveals the often hidden health costs of pesticide exposure to migrant farmworkers in the United States.
Blurring Barriers on Fire Island
Amelia Carter maps the shifting geography and queer ecologies of a popular gay resort spot.
