Are there better ethics than hope? Two scholars with new books about the author of Walden reflect on Henry David Thoreau’s environmental ethic, flirtations with despair, and anarchist politics.
The winners of Edge Effects’ photo contest capture a variety of dramatic, surprising, and precarious border crossings from around the world.
Five professors recommend an eclectic set of environmentally focused books about animals, shopping malls, feral children, and more.
In 1922, 16 states and 137 cities followed Daylight Saving Time—and the rest of the country did not. Repealing Daylight Saving Time only made the map of national temporal borders more complex, causing heartbreak and confusion at the border.
Extinction stories have a flavor, and it tastes like melancholy. A new book asks what different narratives we could bring to the table.
At the New Alchemy Institute’s bioshelters, green technologies promised social revolution. But women still found themselves stuck with the dishes.
A forest sprouting from a levee in eastern Washington offers a model for flood management, if only we notice it.
French landscape painting during the Haitian Revolution lays bare colonial concern for controlling both people and the environment.
We know the effects total solar eclipses have on birds, squirrels, and spiders. But what do they do to people?
An important new essay collection avoids the old arguments about wilderness and instead offers 26 meditations on living well in our places.
