>"A conversation with Laura J. Martin about the Cold War origins of environmental management and her book Wild by Design: The Rise of Ecological Restoration."

A mind-boggling article about safari sold as a popular form of ecotourism often billed as a benefit for conservation. This colonial practice contributed to for _...Read More_

"The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's sixth report finally names “colonialism” as a driver of the climate crisis."

“Even from a technocratic perspective, though, our inaction on climate is irrational. Any serious long-term financial projection should take note of the fact that mass death, disease, and destruction are likely to make everybody worse off.”

“Why has this crisis come about?” said Ghosh. “Because for two centuries, European colonists tore across the world, viewing _...Read More_

>"Reading Amitav Ghosh’s work these last few years, I’ve felt an eerily exciting sense of gratitude. Someone else out there—someone way smarter and more erudite than me—appeared to be chasing the sam…"

While global concern about desertification is most commonly dated to the 1970s when the Sahelian drought and famine hit that region with spectacular suffering and mortality, fear of invading deserts has driven global dryland policy for much _...Read More_

>"One of the largest pipelines in the U.S. was forced to halt some of its operations Friday after a crippling cyberattack on its energy _...Read More_

I have many thoughts on museums, botanical gardens and colonial science. It sits atop the rest of that panel where we touch on Problematic Past Research practices, the collection of human remains and how they feed the multiple racisms that _...Read More_

>"-Analysis- PARIS — They may only be a few short sentences, but they have sparked strong reactions among critics of Greta Thunberg, the Swedish teenager who became a figurehead for the climat..."

Colonizers of the early modern world created a new set of relations that conceived of nature as a “free gift”