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In the foreground, rocks of a variety of colors cover a sandy patch of land. Behind it, a blue-green river flows. Across from the river, there is a steep, wooded hill.

Trans Joy and Indigenous Resistance on the River: A Conversation with Cleo Wölfle Hazard

Ellie Kincaid and M Hamilton Wilson talk with Cleo Wölfle Hazard about his recent book, Underflows: Queer Trans Ecologies and River Justice …
Beautiful Sludge as Queer Ecology

Beautiful Sludge as Queer Ecology

During the Covid-19 pandemic, Quinn Luthy found refuge in the Newtown Creek, a superfind site in New York City. Its toxic sludge and dandelion wilds harbor queer ecology and nonbinary resistance …
Police and protestors stand off at Turtle Island

Guerreros de Drones: El Arte de la Vigilancia y la Resistencia en Standing Rock

Como parte del movimiento de los Protectores del Agua contra el oleoducto Dakota Access, los Guerreros de Drones utilizan la fotografía con drones como una forma de protesta. Una exposición curada por Adrienne Keene y Gregory Hitch destaca su trabajo …
A side profile of a woman standing in the distance. The woman is wearing a tan dress and looking off to the left. She is standing in an arid landscape. The ground is sand, and no vegetation is visible. In the distance, hills are visible. The sky is clear and fades to black in the corners.

Snapshots of the Anthropocene in Iran

What does the Anthropocene look like? Angelica Modabber disentangles the complex layers of memory, ecological change, and identity in contemporary Iranian photography …
two golden fish thrashing above water

Carp as Villains and Victims

Teri Harman considers resilience, fishy companionship, and the culpability of “invasive” carp in Utah Lake. Are carp villains or victims? …
small bridge made of branches stretch over a rushing river

Who Gets to Be Alive? On Rivers and People

In reviewing Robert Macfarlane’s forthcoming book IS A RIVER ALIVE?, Anna Christensen Spydell connects the colonial mistreatment and dehumanization of Indigenous and immigrant “Others” to the pollution and objectification of rivers around the world …
A small fishing boat floats on a still, sunny morning sea, with large rocks in the foreground and ice glaciers behind.

“Buying Time,” and Other Charismatic Temporalities of Climate Change

Mark Carey explores the themes of out of time, accelerating time, and buying time in current climate change discourse, arguing that they flatten other social constructions of time and perpetuate empty “scientific” solutions …
Two bottles and water testing equipment sit in shallow water.

Something in the Water: A Podcast on PFAS in Wisconsin

The Public Trust podcast, co-produced by Bonnie Willison and Richelle Wilson, investigates PFAS contamination in Wisconsin …
A bird's eye image of a single gray whale swimming in the open ocean.

The Ocean’s Beating Hearts

Hilary Clark reflects on how whale watching in Monterey helps reveal important marine multispecies connections—some more unexpected than others …
HZL Pollution

Hindustan Zinc and Corporate Social (Ir)Responsibility

In 2021 and 2022, Prerna Rana spoke with people in Udaipur, India whose livelihoods have been impacted negatively by both environmental pollution and the corporate social responsibility programs meant to mitigate that harm …
Bog with green vegetation and blue water

Swamp Feelings

Annie Proulx’s 2022 book Fen, Bog, and Swamp is a melancholy love letter to wetland ecosystems. But missing from this lament, Nino McQuown argues, are hopeful histories of resistance …
Petroglyphs are carved into some rocks. In the distance there is a river and mountains.

Grappling with the Drying Riverbeds of the Agua Fria

As the once flowing Agua Fria river runs dry, Rachel Howard discusses how Arizona communities are living with climate change …