Imaginings
stories, creative nonfiction, poetry, and other imaginative accounts of the natural world
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Cities Under Water: Valencia, Spain, and Urban Flooding
By Paul Josephson: On 29 October 2024, residents of the town of Paiporta (pop. 27,000), about eight kilometers from Valencia’s city center, saw a “tsunami†of mud and debris catapulting down toward them. At least 60 people died in Paiporta, and a total of 222 individuals died in the region. The area is prone to…
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“Fridays for Future†and the Fight for Climate Justice
By Daniel Dumas and Maryam Tatari *Featured image: The rain did not keep people from assembling for the Fridays for Future march in Munich. Photo: Geoffrey Craig. On 15 March this year, 1.5 million people—young students in particular—took to the streets around the world to protest for climate justice, as part of the Fridays for…
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Gaza’s Happy Hour? When Late Ottoman Palestine Met the Victorian Drinking Culture
By Dotan Halevy If we could travel back in time to the town of Gaza in March 1886, we would probably be joining a large crowd gathered on the beach to catch a glimpse of the Troqueer, a grain-carrying steamship—a behemoth of thirteen hundred tons—lying on its side about a mile offshore.
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Snapshot: Earthquake simulation at the Museum Mensch und Natur
What do you have to do when you experience an earthquake? Perhaps you might seek shelter under a table or under a doorframe. If you are a geologist, however, you also need to collect data and measure what you are experiencing. In case you were wondering, yes, there is an app for that! When a…
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Making Tracks: Giacomo Parrinello
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. An Initiation Into Environmental History By Giacomo Parrinello I first heard of something called “environmental history†as a new MA graduate in history.…
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Photo of the Week: Giacomo Parrinello
This photo depicts a detail of the Cretto, a massive and contested land-art piece conceived by Italian artist Alberto Burri and realized between 1984 and 1988. The piece is located in Western Sicily, Italy, in an area struck by a major seismic disaster in 1968. The Cretto – meaning crack, rift – consists of a…