Beyond the “Murder Hornet” Panic
Remember murder hornets? Samuel Klee tells their story a different way—with less panic and more attention to settler-colonial plantation ecologies.
Tagged: Animals
This Shark Can Outlast Nuclear Waste. But Will It?
This mysterious deep-sea shark is built to live centuries. Will it survive to tell the tale of the Anthropocene? Sadie E. Hale considers the Greenland shark, nuclear waste, and ocean plastics, showing how their sclaes of time and space converge.
No, Bats Aren’t Scary: Five Questions for Tessa Collins
This Halloween, consider the wild lives of bats today, adapting to a changing climate and facing a deadly (and spreading) fungus.
Why Pigeons Can’t Be Pigeonholed
Consider the pigeon. Impossible to categorize as nature or culture, the space between these binaries is where they thrive.
Chicago’s Deep History of Vegetarianism: A Conversation with Connie Johnston and Kay Stepkin
The National Vegetarian Museum celebrates Chicago’s vegetarian past with a traveling exhibit about the vegetarian firsts of the Second City and beyond.
Can Aquaculture Make Seafood Sustainable?
Aquaculture is bringing seafood out of the sea. It might be a good idea.
The Future of Animal Studies: A Conversation with Lori Gruen
Acclaimed animal studies scholar Lori Gruen takes stock of the field and discusses her new collection, Critical Terms for Animal Studies.
Where Disability Rights and Animal Rights Meet: A Conversation with Sunaura Taylor
Artist and writer Sunaura Taylor charts a path toward disability and animal liberation by rethinking care and interdependence, understanding the environmental and physical burdens of our food systems, and more.
Multispecies Ethics are Messy: Five Questions for William Lynn
Ethicist and geographer William Lynn discusses ways to think about the wicked problems posed by conservation and wildlife management.
Making Kin with Serpents in Myanmar’s Snake Temples
Buddhist beliefs and Burmese pythons create a multispecies world in the Snake Temples of Myanmar.
