Maro Reus fuckin rules. Now you know.

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Maro Reus on Ecofiction — Brief Ecology The commercially dominant modern world is one of falsity. Advertising is a thick smog. It leaks through our window screens and oozes out of the linoleum. In our most densely populated places, it’s lou...

"There was a time when all our stories were about birds and stars and our grand, infinitesimal home. Eco fiction makes the deliberate choice to tell those stories again—and acknowledges that we never stopped."

- Maro Reus on Ecofiction
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Spring Equinox — Brief Ecology by Maro Reus

"Singer puts two tiny hands on my cheek. She smiles at me, and I smile back, and she packs magic into my mouth. Petals. Moss. Down in my pink gums, inside my narrow lips."

- Maro Reus in "Spring Equinox"
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She burrows and invites — Brief Ecology Smoke hisses out of the wrinkled, larva-ridden pomegranates lying under the shadow of their withered tree. The manchild stares at the hole pulling fruit and dirt within, as Mother wails beside. Not upset about the mess or the rotting stench, her tragedy is the neighbors gossiping over her weird gar

We've got a new rotting leaf dropping on Saturday, but in the meantime don't miss our previous one, "She Burrows and Invites", by @linardos.bsky.social.

It's fully rotten.

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The Biodiversity Bulletin — Brief Ecology

Our latest Biodiversity Bulletin is out 🌎:

🪸 The Ugly Truth About Rigs-to-Reefs
🔉 Acoustic Indices & Biodiversity
🇨🇺 Cuban Ecosocialism
👇 And More

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The Biodiversity Bulletin — Brief Ecology

Our latest Biodiversity Bulletin is out 🌎:

🪸 The Ugly Truth About Rigs-to-Reefs
🔉 Acoustic Indices & Biodiversity
🇨🇺 Cuban Ecosocialism
👇 And More

www.briefecology.com/the-biodiver...

We're still a few submissions short of our monthly quota–send more weird nature!

We open to submissions at midnight (EST) tonight. Send us your unknowable terrains and horrific habitats

March 2026 — Brief Ecology Dual Ecologies

In Terraforming Erasure, John Maerhofer discusses his recent article in Capitalism Nature Socialism on "agrilogistic violence" and the political economy of eco/neofascism

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Brief Ecology reviewed WHAT A FISH LOOKS LIKE in this month's ecofiction review! "Beker queers the format as much as the characters here, and the result is a love story that skips across time and space."

March 2026 — Brief Ecology Dual Ecologies

Our March edition of The Eco Update is out! In this issue:

🌎 Terraforming Erasure
🌐 Precision vs Accuracy in the Anthropocene
📷 Nature Photo of the Month
🌱 Growing Community
👇 And more

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Cover of a book titled What A Fish Looks Like

And lastly, this month's Ecofiction Review covers What a Fish Looks Like, from Syr Hayati Beker and @stelliform.press

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March 2026 — Brief Ecology Dual Ecologies

In our Notes from a Radical Ecologist column, Sam Myers discusses how the ecosocialist work of @dsasf.org is "Growing Community in the Heart of Tech Empire"

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A lone bird flies over a deep blue sea

Our Nature Photo of the Month is from Rosalie Godefroy. You can find more of Rosalie's work at rosalie-studio.fr

March 2026 — Brief Ecology Dual Ecologies

Our second article, from editor @benlockwood.bsky.social, explores how the term "Anthropocene" is a failure of measurement precision

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March 2026 — Brief Ecology Dual Ecologies

In Terraforming Erasure, John Maerhofer discusses his recent article in Capitalism Nature Socialism on "agrilogistic violence" and the political economy of eco/neofascism

www.briefecology.com/the-eco-upda...

March 2026 — Brief Ecology Dual Ecologies

Our March edition of The Eco Update is out! In this issue:

🌎 Terraforming Erasure
🌐 Precision vs Accuracy in the Anthropocene
📷 Nature Photo of the Month
🌱 Growing Community
👇 And more

www.briefecology.com/the-eco-upda...

Cover of March 2026 issue of The Eco Update, titled "Dual Ecologies"

New issue of The Eco Update dropping tomorrow 👀🌎

“By placing the lens inside the favelas and turning it outward, the political and economic structures controlling food access everywhere come into focus.“

- @benlockwood.bsky.social on Favela Resistance from @pmpress.bsky.social

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Geography and the Ecopolitics of Food — Brief Ecology A review of Favela Resistance from PM Press

In our latest Eco-Nonfiction review, @benlockwood.bsky.social reviews Favela Resistance: Urban Periphery, Pacification, and the Struggle for Food Sovereignty from @pmpress.bsky.social

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Akis Linardos on ecofiction — Brief Ecology If we’re clinical about it, eco-fiction is any sort of story where nature plays an important role in the plot. It can’t just be a fantastical environment in a space setting unless the flora or fauna m...

“Writing is an outlet for me, and I have both envisioned nature taking revenge, or characters larger-than-life protecting what I feel powerless to protect in the real world, and both shades are ecofiction.”

- @linardos.bsky.social on Ecofiction

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I have a new one out ✨

She burrows and invites — Brief Ecology Smoke hisses out of the wrinkled, larva-ridden pomegranates lying under the shadow of their withered tree. The manchild stares at the hole pulling fruit and dirt within, as Mother wails beside. Not u...

"'Down here, you.'

Feminine voice. Seductive rasp. The manchild kneels over the hole, carefully avoiding the blackened earth. An insect skitters the hole’s rim—beetle body, but a drooping antenna carries a bulb reminding him of angler fish."

- @linardos.bsky.social in "She Burrows and Invites"

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The Biodiversity Bulletin — Brief Ecology

Our latest Biodiversity Bulletin is out:

🪸 Coral Reef Emergency
🌎 IPBES Expert Panel
🌐 The 'Homogenocene'
👇 and more

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📷 Photography by @ecosystemengineers.bsky.social

The Biodiversity Bulletin — Brief Ecology

Our latest Biodiversity Bulletin is out:

🪸 Coral Reef Emergency
🌎 IPBES Expert Panel
🌐 The 'Homogenocene'
👇 and more

www.briefecology.com/the-biodiver...

Check out Matt’s piece and much more in our latest issue of the Eco Update 🌎👇