“Gaia versus the Anthropocene: Untimely Thoughts on the Current Eco-Catastrophe.”
This article suggests an alternative understanding of global warming and gives a thermodynamic and historical account of ecological destruction.
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“Apocalypse Then, Now—and Future?”
This article discusses apocalyptic imagination in and beyond the sciences.
“Speaking for the Earth and Humans in the ‘Age of Consequences’”
This article discusses the future of the environmental humanities and their relation to geoscience.
“Political, Ethical, and Societal Aspects of Issuing Warnings to Humanity”
In this article, Steven Yearley writes about the problems and possibilities of scholars and scientists issuing warnings to leaders and policy-makers.
“Seeds of Transformative Change”
In this essay, inaugural issue editors Steven Hartman and Serpil Oppermann introduce the new open-access journal Ecocene.
“Has Economics Caught Up with Climate Science?”
Whereas scientific evidence points towards substantial and urgent reduction in greenhouses gas (GHG) emissions, economic analysis of climate change seems to be out of sync by indicating a more gradual approach.
Venomous Company: Snakes and Agribusiness in Honduras
Arcadia, Spring 2020, no. 19
Recollecting the “prodotti vegetali” of the Natural History Museum, University of Florence
Arcadia, Spring 2020, no. 12
Imagining a New Eden in the Nuclear West
Arcadia, Spring 2020, no. 9
"Dead Museum Animals: Natural Order or Cultural Chaos?"
Libby Robin discusses animals in museums, and how taxidermy has changed from art in the service of science to the backbone of art itself, both in museums and beyond.