“Shrinking Sea Ice as a Prism of Climate Change Understanding”
Lunchtime Colloquium at the Rachel Carson Center with Nina Wormbs.
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“The World as a Wardian Case”
In this article, historian Kate Brown considers the connections between plants, biospheres, and the politics of breathing. “What can the history of controlled environments tell us,” she asks, “about how we understand the planet today?”
“Pentagon Interest in Global Warming... when? Military Fascination with the Physical Environmental Sciences in the Early Cold War”
Lunchtime Colloquium at the Rachel Carson Center with Ron Doel.
Co-Creativity and Engaged Scholarship: Transformative Methods in Social Sustainability Research
This open access book explores creative and collaborative forms of research praxis within the social sustainability sciences.
Interview with Timothy Morton, author of Hyperobjects: Philosophy and Ecology after the End of the World
In this episode from the New Books Network podcast, Timothy Morton is interviewed on their recent book, Hyperobjects: Philosophy and Ecology after the End of the World.
“Historicising Entanglements: Science, Technology and Socio-Ecological Change in the Postcolonial Anthropocene”
This special issue focuses on connected histories of science, technology and socio-ecological change in what the editors call the “postcolonial Anthropocene.”
“O desaparecimento do que está extinto: a caça às focas-monge-do-caribe e as práticas de acervos museológicos”
Article from a special issue on animal history.
“Erasing the Extinct: The Hunt for Caribbean Monk Seals and Museum Collection Practices”
Article from a special issue on animal history.
Being in the Air: An Intellectual and Aesthetic History of Climate
This animated short film taps into the deep pain of the pandemic, experienced by millions of people all over the world.
Mosquitopia: The Place of Pests in a Healthy World
Full book co-edited by former Rachel Carson Center fellow Marcus Hall.