An anthropologist and activist discusses her work with Indigenous youth and how social services and other state programs may be colonial intervention by another name.
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.
One historian exposes shadowy corners of cannabis’s history and offers prescriptions for achieving a bright, sustainable future for the world’s widest-ranging crop.
The decline of honeybees is cause for alarm and a symptom of global biodiversity loss. Beekeepers, however, find creative ways to build relationships with honeybees and steward their hives.
What does the scientific study of biological diversity have to do with the history of U.S. imperialism in the Caribbean? Just about everything, says the author of a new book on American field stations in the tropics.
The fight against African American land loss isn’t just about economic justice. It’s about environmental sustainability.
To be outside the “home” was a dangerous place to be in Gilded Age America. Richard White tells the story of how the modern nation reluctantly came into being alongside the environmental crisis of the late nineteenth century.
Two centuries ago, Ojibwe people planned for seven generations to come. Today that seventh generation is fighting for the treaty rights their ancestors established and a just, sustainable future.
Making things right in the face of climate change demands that colonialism, race, and gender take center stage in the story of capitalism.
Fertilizers, computers, gasoline, and other parts of our everyday lives come from irreplaceable deposits found in the Earth. But how long will they last?
