A collaboration between anthropologist Elizabeth Ferry and her photographer brother Stephen, it combines text and images to paint a picture of the lives of small-scale miners in Colombia in a unique and powerful way...

In 1800, tens of millions of bison roamed the North American Great Plains...

van Dooren offers an exploration of the entangled lives of humans and crows...

Together, Chomsky and Pollin show how the forecasts for a hotter planet strain the imagination: vast stretches of the Earth will become uninhabitable, plagued by extreme weather, drought, rising seas, and crop failure....

Eyler documents the huge disruption, both to the Mekong’s ecosystem and to the lives of the people who depend on it, caused by rampant dam construction, tourism development, pollution, not to mention climate change...

What happens when a distant colonial power tries to tame an unfamiliar terrain in the world's largest tidal delta?

Stuart-Smith, who is a distinguished psychiatrist and avid gardener, offers an inspiring and consoling work about the healing effects of gardening and its ability to decrease stress and foster mental well-being in our everyday lives....

Safina looks into three cultures of other-than-human beings in some of Earth’s remaining wild places. It shows how if you’re a sperm whale, a scarlet macaw, or a chimpanzee, you too experience your life with the understanding that you are an individual within a particular community...

Holl offers a succinct introduction to the theory and practice of ecological restoration as a strategy to conserve biodiversity and ecosystems...

What would actually make America great? More people.

Chantal Bilodeau has made a name for herself a playwright singularly dedicated to writing plays about the issue of climate change...

Schauer explains how this global attention to African wildlife evolved from late nineteenth century to the present...

Walter's book based on the results of a long-term, field-based research project that began in 2006...

Soqotra, the largest island of Yemen's Soqotra Archipelago, is one of the most uniquely diverse places in the world...

Dealing with climate change means trade offs. But which ones should we make?

Beginning in the 1870s, migrant groups from Russia's steppes settled in the similar environment of the Great Plains. Many were Mennonites. They brought plants...

Moore offers a stellar example of the significance and role of humanistic – and specifically ethnographic – inquiry regarding how climate change has, is, and will change human and human-nonhuman relations....

The mill, while providing livelihoods for nearly everyone, also contributed to the destruction of the environment and the decline of the town’s economic, physical, and emotional health in a slow-moving catastrophe...

Pawley examines a place and period of enormous agricultural vitality—antebellum New York State—and follows thousands of “improving agriculturists,..

Scientists seek the truth, and we rely on them. Should we?

"The Journal of Holocaust and Genocide Studies" is turning twenty-five...

This sweeping new history recognizes that the Civil War was not just a military conflict but also a moment of profound transformation in Americans' relationship to the natural world....

Aldrich illuminates two critical factors that had a direct influence on why survival rates varied so much across the Tōhoku region...

In this New Books Network interview, we speak about the political, industrial, and scientific changes that need to occur by 2050 to solve climate change, as well as the importance of focusing on real solutions rather than wallowing in fear....

Poblete demonstrates how western-style economics, policy-making, and knowledge building imposed by the U.S. federal government have been infused into the daily lives of American Samoans...