The Itchy Ecology of Segregation: A Conversation with Dawn Biehler
For many of us, mosquitos are an annoying fact of life in the summer. But for Dawn Biehler, they are also a symptom of social inequality.
Six Quick Lessons in How to Read a Landscape
How do you teach someone to re-see a place they know well? Try these tips on introducing students to the practice of treating landscapes as historical documents.
Rethinking American Agriculture: Fertilized Farms and Victory Gardens
Fresh perspectives on fertilizer use and victory gardens reveal complex connections between business, the state, and the natural environment.
Beautiful Resilience: Conversations after an Earthquake
A storyteller’s account of Manabu Ikeda’s pen-and-ink commemoration of Japan’s earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear disaster in 2011.
Edge Effects: 2016 in Review
The Edge Effects editorial board looks back on 2016.
New Maps Shed Light on German Soldiers’ Lives
A historian finds that making maps can be invaluable when tracing the paths of research subjects, and that ArcGIS can be a useful tool even for scholars with little formal training or experience in cartography.
Biosphere 2: Why an Eccentric Ecological Experiment Still Matters 25 Years Later
Four scholars and one of the original “biospherians” offer their takes on perhaps the largest private science experiment in history.
Nature and the Rules of Race: A Conversation with Carolyn Finney
The importance of storytelling in elucidating and challenging understandings of race and the environment.
Running in Kenya, a Field Story
Reflections on running and research in Kenya.
Turning Toward
A writer’s poignant reflections on care and healing. What might happen if we all turned toward, instead of away?