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On Science, Ancient Philosophy, and Re-Enchanting Nature

On Science, Ancient Philosophy, and Re-Enchanting Nature

M.D. Usher Takes Stock of Anthropocentric Ideas in the Anthropocene

By M.D. Usher | May 13, 2025

Taking the Long View: Why There Might Still Be Hope For the Earth’s Oceans

Taking the Long View: Why There Might Still Be Hope For the Earth’s Oceans

Helen Scales on How Best to Mitigate the Anthropocene’s Negative Impact on Marine Ecosystems

By Helen Scales | August 19, 2024

The Unsettling Sea: On Rationalizing the Drowning of the World We Inhabit

The Unsettling Sea: On Rationalizing the Drowning of the World We Inhabit

Patrick Nunn Investigates Climate Change Denial and the Truth About Our Rising Ocean Levels

By Patrick Nunn | October 20, 2021

We're Doomed. Now What?
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In Conversation with Peter Nowogrodzki

By Peter Nowogrodzki | June 21, 2019

Thoreau and the Search for a Cosmic Community

Thoreau and the Search for a Cosmic Community

His Thinking Was Structured by Deep Time and Planetary Space

By Laura Dassow Walls | July 12, 2017

Contemplating Human Extinction, Deep in the Badlands

Contemplating Human Extinction, Deep in the Badlands

Digging for Dinosaur Bones Amid the Dakota Oil Boom

By Edward McPherson | February 22, 2017

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