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Considering the role of sound in shifting conceptions of the ocean, Ritts and Shiga explore how the US Navy mimicked whale, dolphin, and popoise communication techniques during the Cold War.
Etienne Sabatier and Charlie Huveneers examine media portrayals of human-shark encounters between 2011 and 2013 in the state of Western Australia, arguing that negative framing by media feeds public anxiety.
In this Special Section on Familiarizing the Extraterrestrial / Making Our Planet Alien, edited by Istvan Praet and Juan Francisco Salazar, David Dunér scrutinizes the underlying suppositions involved in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) research, particularly the last three factors of the Drake equation.
ASLE seeks to inspire and promote intellectual work in the environmental humanities and arts, especially ecocriticism.
Seeing the Woods is the official blog of the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society.
The Environmental Humanities Lab at the University of Gothenburg (GUEHL) is a cross-disciplinary platform for scholars and scientists interested in humanities perspectives on human-environment interaction.
This essay discusses methodological difficulties of the established concept of social memory for the analysis of energo-political discourse. It examines the case study of the German-Russian energy cooperation on the natural gas market which began with the discovery of the Urengoi gas field in 1966.
This film, narrated by Tilda Swinton, documents environmental projects and actions by ordinary people around the world.
A chapter of the virtual exhibition “Beyond Doom and Gloom: An Exploration through Letters,” this letter shows apprecation to the hopeful spirit of Rachel Carson. The exhibition is curated by environmental educator Elin Kelsey.
“Doom and gloom” has become the de facto cultural construct not only for environmental communication but for the environmental science it seeks to communicate. We are interested in engaging in deep conversation about what it means to shift beyond “doom and gloom,” and to create movement toward more hopeful, solutions-oriented environmental narratives.
Elin Kelsey
