Those who did it from a distance erased the people’s language. Once they could claim their fiction of terra nullius they flooded in close and put up fences. They erased the history of their conquest and they erased the lake’s history too.
By Jacob Schepers The Creeping Gait These old haunts get older and pace from town to town, glaciers receding, complete [...]
On colonization, Indigenous knowledge, and how we learned to cook the planet.
A poem by Margot Armbruster.
Climate change comes for Appalachia.
In Ohio, local advocacy groups are using low-cost sensors to gather information.
The meme-able turnpike is a nexus of American culture.
On the eroding shores of Lakes Michigan and Huron, a buried eighteenth-century lumber port, and the stakes of inaction.
Stories on climate change, industrial legacies, and planning for a just future.
For ice fishermen on northern Michigan’s frozen lakes, it’s easy to feel like climate change is a world away. But it’s only a matter of time before a warming planet transforms the tradition.
A 2020 study found that formerly redlined neighborhoods are hotter than other areas in the same city. Here’s why.
On the city’s long history of industrial pollution, and how Ted Cruz gets it wrong.