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Swamps Can Protect Against Climate Change, If We Only Let Them

Wetlands absorb carbon dioxide and buffer the excesses of drought and flood, yet we’ve drained much of this land. Can we learn to love our swamps?
by Annie Proulx via The New Yorker on June 27, 2022
An image of a sardine can with a large group of people shoved inside.

The People Who Hate People

Of all the objections NIMBYs raise to new housing and infrastructure, perhaps the most risible is that their community is already too crowded.
by Jerusalem Demsas via The Atlantic on May 24, 2022
Two giant pandas eating bamboo

A Chinese Cigarette Tin Launched D.C.’s 50-year Love Affair With Pandas

Fifty years ago, first lady Pat Nixon admired a tin of Chinese cigarettes. Then China sent the U.S. a pair of giant pandas.
by Michael E. Ruane via Retropolis on March 16, 2022
Photograph of a Fish Weir

A River Interrupted

Why dam removal is critical for restoring the Charles River.
by Julia Hopkins, Robert Kearns via Charles River Watershed Association on March 3, 2022
Aerial view of trees in Tongass National Forest, Alaska.

This Tree has Stood Here for 500 Years. Will it be Sold for $17,500?

Old-growth trees in Alaska's Tongass National Forest are embroiled in the politics of timber and climate change.
by Juliet Eilperin via Washington Post on December 30, 2021
<p>Thick smoke from multiple forest fires shrouds El Capitan (right) and the granite walls of Yosemite Valley on Saturday 12 September 2020, in Yosemite National Park, CA.<em> Photo Brian van der Brug/Los Angeles Times/Getty</em></p>

What Yosemite’s Fire History Says About Life in the Pyrocene

Fire is a planetary feature, not a biotic bug. What can we learn from Yosemite’s experiment to restore natural fire?
by Stephen Pyne via Aeon on December 24, 2021
illustration of binoculars looking at ivory-billed woodpecker

The Tragically Human End of the Ivory-Billed Woodpecker

The ivory-billed woodpecker hasn't been seen for decades. The government is ready to declare it extinct—but at what cost?
by Isaac Schultz via Gizmodo on December 22, 2021
Old-time black and white pictures of Theodore Roosevelt and John Muir with a modern city background

How American Environmentalism Failed

Traditional environmentalism has lacked a meaningful, practical democratic vision, rendering it largely marginal to the day-to-day lives of most Americans.
by William Shutkin via The MIT Press Reader on August 31, 2021
Lithograph of a horse and four dead bison on the plains

How Yellowstone Was Saved by a Teddy Roosevelt Dinner Party and a Fake Photo in a Gun Magazine

Teddy Roosevelt made an unlikely alliance with George Bird Grinnell, and together they made efforts to stop poaching and conserve Yellowstone.
by Alan Katz via Smithsonian on July 9, 2021
Photograph of a young bison, partially obscured by shadow

When the Bison Come Back, will the Ecosystem Follow?

Can a cross-border effort to bring wild bison to the Great Plains restore one of the world's most endangered ecosystems?
by Louise Johns via UnDark on June 2, 2021
Silhouette of two bison on the plains

The Bison and the Blackfeet

Indigenous nations are spearheading a movement to restore buffalo to the American landscape.
by Michelle Nijhuis via Sierra Club on May 31, 2021

America’s Conflicted Landscapes

A nation that identifies itself with nature begins to fall apart when it can no longer agree on what nature is.
by David E. Nye via The MIT Press Reader on April 20, 2021
Caribou at the Arctic Refuge.
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Indigenous Advocacy Transformed the Fight Over Oil Drilling in the Arctic Refuge

Racial justice is now as much a part of the debate as environmentalism vs. oil drilling.
by Finis Dunaway via Made By History on March 14, 2021

John Muir in Native America

Muir's romantic vision obscured Indigenous ownership of the land—but a new generation is pulling away the veil.
by Rebecca Solnit via Sierra Club on March 2, 2021
Drawing of a toppled statue head among grass, with a white bird

What Do We Do About John James Audubon?

The founding father of American birding soared on the wings of white privilege. How should the birding community grapple with this racist legacy?
by J. Drew Lanham via Audubon on February 23, 2021
Aerial view of a mining quarry

The Land Was Ours

Trump, Biden, and public lands.
by Nick Bowlin via The Drift on January 27, 2021
Women gathered around Eleanor Roosevelt at Camp Tera.

The New Deal Program that Sent Women to Summer Camp

About 8,500 women attended the camps inspired by the CCC and organized by Eleanor Roosevelt—but the "She-She-She" program was mocked and eventually abandoned.
by Erin Blakemore via HISTORY on July 7, 2020
Roosevelt statue

Why It's Right That the Theodore Roosevelt Statue Comes Down

Like the museum behind it, the monument was designed in large part to train white people in a fundamentally racist way of seeing.
by Nick Mirzoeff via Hyperallergic on June 30, 2020

Climate Change is Wiping Out Harriet Tubman’s Homeland, and We’re Doing Little

America’s racialized topography means African-American historical sites are especially vulnerable to climate change.
by Rona Kobell via Boston Globe on October 24, 2019

Inventing the Environment

A review of two new books on the postwar origins of “the Environment.”
by Carolyn Taratko via Los Angeles Review of Books on August 15, 2019

Unearthing the Complex Histories of Madison Parks

Creating the city's bucolic, natural landscapes required a good deal of displacement, technological intervention, and erasure.
by Kassia Shaw via Edge Effects on August 6, 2019

The Man Who Tried to Claim the Grand Canyon

Ralph H. Cameron staked mining claims around the Grand Canyon, seeking to privatize it. To protect his claims, he ran for Senate.
by Adam M. Sowards via JSTOR Daily on July 31, 2019

Water is for Fighting

How a profit-driven approach to water rights left the west high and dry.
by Sparky Abraham via Current Affairs on July 8, 2019
Open air bus and tourists visiting Glacier National Park.

The Secret Life of George Grinnell, One of America's Greatest Conservationists

"Although the lesson of progressivism took a while to sink in, over time Grinnell resolved to do whatever he could to forestall the sundering of his world."
by John Taliaferro via Pacific Standard on June 3, 2019
Hand-drawn map proposing the Appalachian Trail

An Appalachian Trail: A Project in Regional Planning

In its original concept, the Appalachian Trail was a wildly ambitious plan to reorganize the economic geography of the eastern United States.
by Benton MacKaye, Garrett Dash Nelson via Places Journal on April 1, 2019

How a Movement That Never Killed Anyone Became the FBI’s No. 1 Domestic Terrorism Threat

Behind the scenes, corporate lobbying laid the groundwork for the Justice Department’s aggressive pursuit of so-called eco-terrorists.
by Alleen Brown via The Intercept on March 23, 2019
Rachel Carson conducting marine biology research with Bob Hines offshore.

Rachel Carson's Critics Called Her a Witch

When Silent Spring was published, the response was overtly gendered. Rachel Carson's critics depicted her as hysterical, mystical, and witchy.
by Livia Gershon, Maril Hazlett via JSTOR Daily on February 21, 2019
Firefighters cutting a trench as a blaze approaches.

The Case for Letting Malibu Burn

Many of California’s native ecosystems evolved to burn. But modern fire suppression creates fuel for catastrophic fires. Is it time for a change?
by Mike Davis via Longreads on December 4, 2018

The Most Dangerous Job: The Murder of America's First Bird Warden

His job was to protect the birds. But nobody was there to protect him.
by Lucas Reilly via Mental Floss on October 30, 2018

W. E. B. Du Bois and the American Environment

Du Bois's ideas about the environment — and how Jim Crow shaped them — have gone relatively unnoticed by environmental historians.
by Brian McCammack via Edge Effects on September 25, 2018
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