The 1998 El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) triggered the worst coral bleaching event ever witnessed, and is indicative of what future climate change events can destroy.
This is a chapter of the virtual exhibition “Welcome to the Anthropocene: The Earth in Our Hands”—written and curated by historian Nina Möllers.
Together with the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, the Deutsches Museum hosted a major special exhibition on the Anthropocene from December 2014 – September 2016, which was curated by Nina Möllers. Coined by the atmospheric chemist and Nobel Prize laureate Paul J. Crutzen, the term “Anthropocene” describes the idea of a new geological era shaped by deep interventions into nature by humans as biological and geological agents.
Nina Möllers
Moral Ground presents a diverse and compelling call to honor our individual and collective moral responsibility to our planet.
This project looks at the historical intersections between environmental change and migration, and is particularly interested in climate-induced movements of people in the past.
The challenges for mountain fieldwork today are different than those faced by researchers a century ago. This article looks at differences in funding, surveying practices, and academic networks and debate.
The UAE has appointed a company named Masdar to create the most environmentally sustainable city in the world that may serve as a model for future generations.
President of the Republic of the Maldives, Mohammed Nasheed and 13 government officials hold an underwater cabinet meeting in Girifushi on 17 October 2009, to call attention to the threat of global warming on the island nation.
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?
Jouni Paavola’s editorial for the Environmental Values 17.
In this paper, Richard S. J. Tol discusses gaps in climate change research and speculates on possible sign and size of the impacts of climate change.
