Imaginings

stories, creative nonfiction, poetry, and other imaginative accounts of the natural world

  • Worldview: Doce River Disaster

    “The Bitterness of the Doce River—One Year Later” By Lise Sedrez It was way worse than I thought. Over the last three days, with a group of colleagues, I looked at the Rio Doce and asked myself how we could have done this to the river. Rio Doce has nurtured Brazilian history for hundreds of…

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  • Making Tracks: Yan Gao

    In the “Making Tracks” series, RCC fellows and alumni present their experiences in environmental humanities, retracing the paths that led them to the Rachel Carson Center. For more information, please click here. “Watermarks on My Path” By Yan Gao When I started writing this article, my home city, Wuhan—situated at the confluence of the Yangzi…

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