The Urban Buzz: Pollinator Protection in Madison, Wisconsin
A variety of bees inhabit urban spaces alongside us. In Madison, efforts are underway to improve habitats for the pollinators.
Category: Fieldnotes
From Lines to Stories: New Visualizations of Syria’s Borders
The Mapping Borders project rethinks Syria’s borders, adding individual experiences and stories to the “line.”
Finding the Words: An Account of E is for Environment, CHE’s 2016 Graduate Student Symposium
A meeting of minds at CHE’s 2016 graduate student symposium broadens the environmental vocabulary.
Exploitation and Conservation Among the Ancient Maya
Environmental exploitation has been linked to the collapse of the Mayan society, but the Maya may in fact have been environmental stewards.
Notes from the Great Transition
Training people to help create communities that are better suited to a changing environment is important work—but quite a challenge when it’s not at all clear what that future will look like.
Why Are Snowflakes Individually Unique?
A scientific explanation for a piece of folk meteorology.
Land Use Legacies: What We Do in Life Echoes in Eternity
The ecological legacy of our ancestors is deeply engraved in the environment today—a fact that reminds us of our shared responsibility to our descendants.
Rewilding the Badger Army Ammunition Plant
Volunteers and stakeholders bring prairie ecosystems back to life on the grounds of what was once the world’s largest munitions facility.
The Stories and Languages of Home: A Conversation with Robin W. Kimmerer
Dr. Robin W. Kimmerer speaks about indigenous knowledges, traditional science, and the stories and words that connect us to our nonhuman homes.
Pictures Make History: West German Environmentalism from 1950 to 1990
Drawing helps an environmental historian make sense of changing ideas of nature in West Germany.
