Environment & Society Portal

15/05/2026

New in Arcadia: Karel Šima writes about how interwar nature conservation in Subcarpathian Ruthenia (then in Checkoslovakia) created conditions for the research of Albert Pilát, which came to shape modern mycology and forest awareness.

Read the article “Forest Conservation and the Exploration of Carpathian Fungi” for free on the Environment & Society Portal (link in our bio).

07/05/2026

An excerpt from David Benac's 𝘙𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘙𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘴 (University of Nebraska Press) is now available in the Portal Multimedia Library. The book provides unparalleled insight in the Rainforest Action Network, which emerged in 1985.

https://www.environmentandsociety.org/mml/rainforest-radicals-history-rainforest-action-network-and-transnational-organizing

Excerpt from Rainforest Radicals: A History of Rainforest Action Network and Transnational Organizing by David Benac.

26/03/2026

Exciting news! We just published a new multimedia online exhibition titled “Amitav Ghosh in Munich: Inspiration, Insights, and Storytelling.” The exhibition has emerged from the Amitav Ghosh’s visit to the Rachel Carson Center in the autumn of 2024 as part of the initiative “One Book—Many Worlds: Munich Reads Gun Island by Amitav Ghosh.” Using Ghosh’s novel 𝘎𝘶𝘯 𝘐𝘴𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘥 (2019) as a vantage point, it explores the role of literary fiction in interdisciplinary academic exchange and climate communication outside of academia, bringing together scholarly reflections, creative writing, and artistic responses.

Visit it here: https://www.environmentandsociety.org/exhibitions/ghosh-munich

25/03/2026

Another RiffReporter podcast is now available in the Multimedia Library; reporter Ulrike Prinz presents the research of archaeologist Niède Guidon and its implications for understanding the first humans in the Americas.

You can listen to it for free in our Sound & Vision collection: https://www.environmentandsociety.org/mml/when-did-humans-first-discover-america-ulrike-prinz. Please note that the podcast is available in German only.



Image: © Ulrike Prinz. All rights reserved.

18/03/2026

We've just added a podcast by RiffReporter to the Multimedia Library; it discusses linalool extraction from rosewood grown in the Amazon rainforest.

You can listen to it for free in our Sound & Vision collection. Please note that the podcast is available in German only: https://www.environmentandsociety.org/mml/can-forest-gardens-save-rainforest-ulrike-prinz

06/03/2026

The new 𝘚𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴 issue is now live on the Environment & Society Portal! Explore contributions from the RCC community, featuring reflections and perspectives on human–environment interactions across disciplines and media:
https://www.environmentandsociety.org/mml/collection/16228

05/03/2026

New Arcadia article by Smarika Nawani on how the autobiography of Zahīr ud-Dīn Muhammad Bābur (1483–1530), the first emperor of the Mughal Empire, anticipates an ecological and multispecies understanding of the environment, highlighting confluence rather than divergence between humans and nonhumans.

Read Nawani’s “A Paradise in Spring: An Ecological Account of Birds, Fishes, and Hunters in the Bāburnāma” for free on the Environment & Society Portal (link in our bio).

10/02/2026

New open-access book: 𝘙𝘶𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘛𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘔𝘰𝘯𝘨𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘢 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘊𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘈𝘴𝘪𝘢: 𝘗𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘮, 𝘞𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘣𝘦𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘌𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘰𝘮𝘪𝘤 𝘙𝘦𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴, edited by Ariell Ahearn, Gantulga Munkherdene, and Takahiro Ozaki. Download it as PDF or Epub on our Environment & Society Portal. Courtesy of The White Horse Press.

Full open-access volume Rural Transitions in Mongolia and Central Asia: Pastoralism, Wellbeing and Economic Relations (2026), edited by Ariell Ahearn, Gantulga Munkherdene, and Takahiro Ozaki.

19/11/2025

We just added the newest issue of 𝘚𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴: 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘙𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘭 𝘊𝘢𝘳𝘴𝘰𝘯 𝘊𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘙𝘦𝘷𝘪𝘦𝘸 to the Portal Multimedia Library: https://www.environmentandsociety.org/mml/collection/16228

It opens with a dive into the world of comics, before embarking on a fieldtrip across an Arctic research station, Finland’s boreal forests, and the eroding riverbanks of Bangladesh. Three essays, a visual narrative, a short story, and an interview join forces to uncover missing pieces in the quest to understand human–environment interactions.

12/11/2025

The short film 𝘔𝘢𝘺𝘢 𝘓𝘢𝘯𝘥: 𝘓𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘉𝘦𝘦𝘴, directed by former Carson Fellow Kata Beilin and Avi Paul Weinstein, is now available on the Portal. It documents the environmental conflict between GM soy growers and Maya beekeepers in the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico.

Watch it here: https://www.environmentandsociety.org/mml/maya-land-listening-bees



Film poster: © 2022 FelixMundo Productions, Ltd. All rights reserved.