Environmental Justice
When facing environmental crises, why do some people bear more burdens than others? In collaboration with the Environment and Society Portal at the Rachel Carson Center, Seeing the Woods has contributed to the compilation of a digital resource on topics of environmental justice and environmental…
Matter of Degrees
With an estimated 3 billion animals killed or displaced by the 2019-2020 Australian bushfires, this series of personal and scholarly reflections poses urgent questions about the future of this bushfire prone country and of our experiences of ongoing environmental crises. By Anna Pilz and…
Silent Spring Continued
Over the past 27 years the biomass of flying insects has decreased by more than 75 percent. Emphasizing the fundamental role played by insects in keeping the biophysical fabric intact, this series asks urgent questions about the fate of insects through a collection of…
Tracing Landscape Change through Dung Beetles
As part of the ongoing series Silent Spring Continued: A World without Insects, environmental anthropolgist Olea Morris recounts how fieldwork in Mexico introduced her to the world of dung beetles. This post follows on from Olea’s Insect Profile on dung beetles. *Featured Image: Dung…
Insect Portrait: The Dung Beetle
By Olea Morris The family of insects known as “dung beetle,” or escarabajos del estiercol, is a diverse one—even amongst those that make the same misty cloud forests of Mexico their home. Some, like Onthophagus corrosus, are jet black and no bigger than the…
Race, Nature, and W.E.B. Du Bois
Thomas Moran, The Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone, 1901. By John R. Eperjesi Trees? American trees had ropes in them. –Ed Roberson Outdoor Afro is a national non-profit organization that uses things like canoe paddles, hiking poles, and tents to help break down the…