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“‘Everybody Talks About the Weather’”
The surprising career of the advertising slogan “everybody talks about the weather” is a story about political transformation.
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“Power Poverty: Energy Injustice in South Africa”
In this Springs article, historian Jane Carruthers explores the history and impact of energy injustice in South Africa.
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“The Place of the Moon”
Explore the Moon, the world, and the self in a lyrical essay with author Christopher Cokinos.
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“‘We Have Always Known’: On the Trails of People, Plants, and Humboldt”
While reading Baron von Humboldt’s 1807 Essay on the Geography of Plants, Paula Unger writes about modern science creating boundaries between the human and the nonhuman, and how Indigenous understandings transcend them.
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“A World Parliament of Rivers”
Rita Brara and María Valeria Berros argue for the importance of a legal recognition of rivers. “What we want for rivers now is an institution that can be entrusted with their environmental protection on a global scale.”
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“Can Brussels and Beijing Get It Right? Twenty-First Century Ecological Geopolitics”
China and the United States are in a fierce competition, but what about Europe? Spotlighting “twenty-first century ecological politics,” environmental studies and public policy scholar Sophia Kalantzakos wonders: “Can Brussels and Beijing get it right?”
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“Mother Drone, Mother Nature: The Griffon Vulture and Israel’s Military”
This essay examines how military, technology, and nature converge in the Israeli griffon vulture project and what politics stand behind it.
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“Coal, War, and Peace in Twentieth-Century Europe”
Franz-Josef Brüggemeier outlines the history one of the most crucial energy source of twentieth-century Europe in this article. “Coal returned to center stage again and again. In both world wars, coal provided the material basis for the atrocities committed and was of decisive importance in the subsequent search for lasting peace.”