Ecoanxiety in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein signals our ability to create art in reaction to environmental disaster in increasingly unstable planetary futures.
This article investigates how plants are supported by systems of ethno-political, military, and neoliberal power in urban Pakistan.
The premises of water allocation legislation came under harsh scrutiny in the early 2000s as severe drought plagued the American Southwest.
When a tornado strikes Worcester, Massachusetts, residents suspect the disaster is the work of an unlikely culprit—the atomic bomb.
In Tanzania and Mauritius, physical disasters are filtered through cultural lenses, including sightings of cryptids: serpents and a werewolf.
An invasive mollusk called the shipworm (Teredo navalis) attacked coastal dikes in the Netherlands in the 1730s, leading to changes in the design of dikes.
In 1975, construction began for the Thames Barrier, a moveable flood defense located on the River Thames, downstream of central London in the United Kingdom.
In 1969, the Georgian resort of Pitsunda and its beach were severely damaged by a storm. This was largely due to an ongoing process of coastal erosion caused by anthropogenic influences.
In 1997 and 1998 peat swamp forests burned in Borneo, Indonesia, spewing big amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
Flood memory in Townsville is strong, but this does not align with the city’s capacity to live sustainably with floods.
