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Springs: The Rachel Carson Center Review is an open-access online publication for peer-reviewed articles, creative nonfiction, and artistic contributions that showcase the work of the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society (RCC) and its community across the world. In the spirit of Rachel Carson, it publishes sharp writing with an impact. Surveying the interrelationship between environmental and social changes from a wealth of disciplines and perspectives, it is a place to share rigorous research, test out fresh ideas, question old ones, and to advance public and scholarly debates in the environmental humanities and beyond.

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Current Issue

No. 10

Published July 21, 2026

Issue description

Cars driving, rolling coal. Stories unearthing what was before. Recycled waste reshaping the present. The tenth issue of Springs asks: What is the future of the environment In “... See the full issue

Articles

  1. Car from back, with smoke.

    Timothy LeCain (Author)

    Thank God for the Coal Rollers

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc-springs-22328
  2. Close-up of a painting by Kim Curtis.

    Kim Curtis, Regina M. Bichler (Author)

    One Woman’s Waste Is Another Woman’s Treasure: A Conversation with Kim Curtis

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc-springs-22668
  3. Tower buildings with the moat and the sign indicating the location where the wooden segments are buried on Tsukudajima. © 2026 Kiuchi Kumiko. All rights reserved.

    Kumiko Kiuchi (Author)

    Mapped Futures, Vanishing Places: On Inheritance at the Water’s Edge

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc-springs-23588
  4. One of the first formal “seminars” in US academia. Herbert Baxter Adams, John Hopkins University’s first professor of history, speaking to students and faculty, ca. 1895. Courtesy if Special Collections, Sheridan Libraries, Johns Hopkins University. Public domain.

    Rob Gioielli (Author)

    The Future of the Environmental Humanities Is Not in the Seminar Room

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc-springs-22619
  5. Illustration by Alexandra Hochreiter. All rights reserved.

    Rachel Desiree Felix (Author)

    The Mangrove Doesn’t Forget

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc-springs-21717.
  6. The Flower Dome and the Cloud Forest, two conservatories in the Gardens by the Bay, Singapore. © CEphoto, Uwe Aranas. All rights reserved. Wikimedia Commons.

    Jamie Wang (Author)

    Tell Me a Story, Tell Me the World

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc-springs-23428
  7. Illustration by Armando Veve. All rights reserved.

    Zana Fraillon (Author)

    Time After the Hero—Or, in Proposing the Age of the Anthropoiescene

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc-springs-21975
  8. Graffiti artwork in Wisła, Poland. Wikimedia Commons. CC BY 4.0.

    Alexa Weik von Mossner (Author)

    The Futures We Tell

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc-springs-22923
  9. Lourdes Grobet, Rosarito, Baja California Norte from Olmayaztec series, ca. 1990–95, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, 2022.R.6. © Lourdes Grobet. All rights reserved.

    Claudia Leal (Author)

    The Best Is Yet to Come: Latin American Environmental History

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc-springs-22548
  10. Illustration by Jon Gray. All rights reserved.

    Michaela Vieser (Author)

    Whale Fall

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc-springs-21883
  11. Michael Wolgemut, Lot and His Family Leaving Sodom, ca. 1493–1500, ink on paper, 3.62 x 4.88 cm. Published in the Nuremberg Chronicle (Liber Chronicarum) by Hartmann Schedel (Anton Koberger, 1493). Public domain.

    Kate Rigby (Author)

    Ignoring Religion Is Not an Option

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5282//rcc-springs-22822
  12. Urban Mirrors, Frankfurt. © 2026 Bernhard Lang. All rights reserved. bernhardlang.de.

    Christof Mauch, Pauline Kargruber, Haley Snyder (Author)

    Editor’s Note: Imagining Environmental Futures

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5282//rcc-springs-23703