A historically grounded interpretation of Lake Tanganyika’s rising lake waters shows that global warming presents just one of many challenges facing the region.
Facing It is a podcast about love, loss, and the natural world, written and narrated by Jennifer Atkinson.
A book on the history of repeat photography of glaciers.
An analysis of the book Gun Island by Amitav Ghosh.
Excerpt from RCC fellow Jemma Deer’s monograph Radical Animism: Reading for the End of the World.
This docudrama revolves around a man living in the devastated future world of 2055, looking back at old footage from our time and asking: Why didn’t we stop climate change when we had the chance?
This article analyzes how people in the Bolivian Andes cope with environmental stress. Specifically, it examines the role environmental migration - a strategic mechanism to build up financial, productive, and social capital - plays in how people cope with climate change.
Introductory notes on the virtual exhibition Amitav Ghosh in Munich.
This paper traces the history of human-environment interactions in the Pacific Islands during the last millennium, focusing on three main periods: the Little Climatic Optimum, the Little Ice Age, and, in greatest detail, the transition around AD 1300 between the two.
What does the possibility of an early end to human existence as part of a more general biotic extinction mean for the latter day writing of history?
