Imaginings
stories, creative nonfiction, poetry, and other imaginative accounts of the natural world
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Plastic Trouble: A Graphic Novel, Part IV

Plastic Trouble is the story of Amiya, a young Himalayan brown bear exposed to plastic waste in the mountains she calls home. Come along on this four-part journey as Amiya wakes up from hibernation to face new, unexpected obstacles and meet new friends in the process.
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Plastic Trouble: A Graphic Novel, Part III

Plastic Trouble is the story of Amiya, a young Himalayan brown bear exposed to plastic waste in the mountains she calls home. Come along on this four-part journey as Amiya wakes up from hibernation to face new, unexpected obstacles and meet new friends in the process.
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Plastic Trouble: A Graphic Novel, Part II

Plastic Trouble is the story of Amiya, a young Himalayan brown bear exposed to plastic waste in the mountains she calls home. Come along on this four-part journey as Amiya wakes up from hibernation to face new, unexpected obstacles and meet new friends in the process.
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Plastic Trouble: A Graphic Novel, Part I

Plastic Trouble is the story of Amiya, a young Himalayan brown bear exposed to plastic waste in the mountains she calls home. Come along on this four-part journey as Amiya wakes up from hibernation to face new, unexpected obstacles and meet new friends in the process.
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A Whale of a Time

*Featured image: Sperm whales under attack, from Thomas Beale’s The Natural History of the Sperm Whale (1839). Photo: The New York Public Library via rawpixel, public domain. By: Daniel Dumas Zodiac crossings of rough seas, imperial expansion, and narratives of resistance and resilience. This is not the backdrop of an action flick coming to the…
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Outsmarting Technology: Elephants as Non-Human-Actors in Wildlife Conflicts
By Ursula Münster What differentiates humans from other animals is a question that has long occupied scholars in the life sciences and humanities alike. For the conservation biologists, farmers, and indigenous Adivasis I met during my ethnographic fieldwork at a wildlife sanctuary in South India, it is precisely the resemblance of certain animal species to…
