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Environmental Studies
Interviews with scholars of the environment about their new books.
July 16, 2026
Spirituality, Science and Environmentalism in Taiwan
Who is Shennong, the Divine Farmer? And how can he help us understand the intricate relationships between spirituality, science and environmentalism i…
July 11, 2026
Deadly Divide
As many as ten thousand people attempt to illegally cross the border between the US and Mexico each month, braving deserts, rivers, and other environm…
July 10, 2026
Grounding the Cloud
Since the 1990s, technologists have promoted a vision of the “cloud” as a shapeless and intangible entity. Grounding the Cloud: Urbanism in the Shadow…
July 8, 2026
Cookstove Chronicles
Stove improvers have been designing and promoting “clean” or “efficient” biomass cookstoves in India since the 1940s and have been frustrated to …
July 4, 2026
Vanished
Anyone alive today is among a tiny fraction of the once living: over 90% of species that ever existed are now extinct. How did we come to think of…
July 3, 2026
54 Making Microbes Explicit
This episode takes listeners into the latest issues of Gastronomica, with a special feature on microbes. Sarah Elton and Maya Hey talk with Dan Bender…
July 3, 2026
Audio and Ideas Panel #3
This is a special edition of the New York Institute for the Humanities’ Vault podcast. On May 13, 2026, Princeton’s Center for Human Values hosted a d…
June 29, 2026
A Perturbed System
Our ecological system is disturbed, and with it, every other system we’ve built to inhabit it. We do not face inevitable destruction, yet many of us c…
June 29, 2026
Dream Road to Pan America
A century after the Pan-American Highway was first conceived, its story remains largely unknown—even to the hundreds of motorists who annually attempt…
June 26, 2026
Christian Environmentalism in a Hindu Majoritarian Context
Why has the Catholic Church in India become so engaged in environmental initiatives? And what does the wider Indian political context defined by an as…
June 25, 2026
Introducing Periodically
1. A complete list of University of California Press journals is available at UC Press Journals 2. Clare E. B. Cannon; Advancing sustainable transit…
June 24, 2026
Accelerant
Between the late 1940s and the end of the twentieth century, natural gas became Iran's bedrock energy source. Billed as a futuristic fuel for a future…
June 22, 2026
Ecologizing Late Ancient and Byzantine Worlds
How can we study the late ancient and Byzantine history from ecological perspectives? How might one grapple with the more-than-human in sources and me…
June 21, 2026
Landscape Fieldwork
Landscape architecture is at a crossroads. The ability to draw upon interdisciplinary perspectives and generate insights from the combined vantage poi…
June 17, 2026
Saving Utopia
There is no alternative. The End of History. Climate Apocalypse. It seems that our contemporary moment is defined by the idea that things can only…
June 16, 2026
The Hobo
From the mid-nineteenth century through the dust bowl years of the Great Depression, a new kind of migrant worker became a familiar sight in communiti…
June 13, 2026
Wild Tides
In Wild Tides: Media Infrastructure and Financial Crisis in Ireland (Duke University Press, 2026), Patrick Brodie maps the shifting fortunes of the Ir…
June 13, 2026
Cultivated
An exploration of the concept of cultivation, as conducted on both the land and the body, which expands our understanding of it as practice, aesthetic…
June 10, 2026
Making Do
Modern environmentalism often frames conservation as moral, humans damage nature, and conservation protects it. But Mardi Reardon-Smith’s Making Do: C…
June 7, 2026
Deep Time in the Mono Lake Basin
"Deep Time," a way of understanding the distant past popularized in the late 20th century by the writer John McPhee, changes our perspective on histor…