Kate Phelps speaks with Sunaura Taylor on her book Disabled Ecologies. They discuss the contamination of the Tucson aquifer as an origin for understanding the mutual injury of humans and the environment.
Talitha Pam investigates the ecocritical function of a visitor notebook placed on Wahnabeezee/Belle Isle, a 982-acre island in the Detroit River.
Through this photo exhibit, Steven Haring represents the instabilities of agriculture amid climate uncertainties, as human imposed systems seeking to enhance agricultural productivity test the limits of fluctuating natural systems.
What can we learn from lichens about the air we breathe? Lucy Sabin shares her creative research on sensing atmospheres with lichens as proxies.
Could seance be more than just a party trick? Sam Bean, Alison Schultz, Carmen Warner, and Barbara Leckie unpack its overlooked political history, including how the queer group Radical Faeries used seances to articulate an egalitarian, environmentally-connected identity.
Angeline Peterson interviews Jill Jarvis on her forthcoming book project Signs in the Desert through her journey into studying the Sahara. Discussing a variety of sources, they challenge the view of deserts as empty spaces and highlight the Saraha as a vibrant, interconnected ecosystem suffering the aftermath of colonial violence.
Christy Tidwell traces the history of taxidermy, its connections to the Gothic horror genre in pop culture, and its spooky connotations.
Anamika Singh reveals the multi-faceted, longstanding connections between settler colonialism, the ongoing war in Palestine, and the university as both an institutional agent of occupation and a site of resistance.
Books about nature and the environment are a wonderful way to help young readers appreciate our planet. For Edge Effects’s tenth birthday, Megan Schliesman and the CCBC recommend ten environmental children’s books for middle grade readers.
Richard Bednarski connects the forest fires of 1910 to the subsequent media-driven age of fire exclusion policy, despite scientific evidence for fire inclusion. Did years of this practice worsen the United States’s “fire problem” today?
