This volume explores the question of whether science should be centered in climate-change communication.
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Shortis suggests that the World Park Antarctica campaign offers a positive example of an environmental campaign that includes but does not center scientific authority.
Alessandro Antonello and Mark Carey examine how the practices involved in drilling, analyzing, discussing, and using ice cores for both science and broader climate or environmental policies and cultures take part in constituting the temporalities of the global environment.
In this Special Section on Familiarizing the Extraterrestrial / Making Our Planet Alien, edited by Istvan Praet and Juan Francisco Salazar, Salazar explores world-making processes through which extreme frontiers of life are made habitable, arguing that microbial worlds are becoming part of worlding processes and projects that further these frontiers.
In this Special Section on Familiarizing the Extraterrestrial / Making Our Planet Alien, edited by Istvan Praet and Juan Francisco Salazar, Jessica O’Reilly compares the paramilitary practicalities of Antarctic research station and field camp life with the visions of the Antarctic as a place of sublime wild nature, violent death, and climate disaster.
In this Oscar-nominated documentary, Werner Herzog travels to the Antarctic community of McMurdo Station, the hub of the US Antarctic Program, to film the life conditions of humans and animals in this extreme landscape.
A new research station at the South Pole is a sign of increasing international scientific collaboration. The newest Amundsen-Scott Station is larger than previous stations and has a better design, offering the potential for increased longevity in one of the world’s harshest climates.
This film follows the impacts of fishing on the Ross Sea, a deep bay of Antarctica’s southern ocean.
Examines the cultural history of English explorations of Earth’s polar regions.
