Gisli Palsson’s afterword for the Special Section on Familiarizing the Extraterrestrial / Making Our Planet Alien, edited by Istvan Praet and Juan Francisco Salazar, concludes that outer space matters for anthropology and, likewise, anthropology matters for those concerned with space politics and space research.

In his comment on the Papal encyclical Laudato si’, Bruno Latour considers Pope Francis’s attention to the earth and the poor, and what this means for the Catholic Church.

In this issue of the The Voice of the Wild Siskiyou of Spring 1998, a quarterly newsletter of the Siskiyou Regional Education Project, Art R. Kruckeberg and Frank A. Lang provide information about the Klamath-Siskyiou bioregion, a unique place situated along the Pacific Ocean across the Californian and Oregon border. Further, they ask the question of “how to preserve this bioregion and all its distinctive ecosystems - in the face of ongoing resource extraction and other human incursions?”, and encourage joining the Siskiyou Project network.

In this 1995 annual report, the Fund for Wild Nature focuses on current anti-environmental politics and the skirting of environmental laws. The purpose of the fund, its funding guidelines, areas of support, and grant projects are laid out. Their intent is to foster connections among diverse groups with the underlying philosophy of Deep Ecology.

Humanidades Ambientales is a website for three Spanish environmental humanities projects. Most of its content is written in both Spanish and English.

Palsson and Swanson’s article explores the relationship between geology and social life in the Anthropocene, using the notion of “geosocialities.”

Paul Gillen explores the role of conscious human agency leading up to the Anthropocene, suggesting that the development of sentience in the Phanerozoic eon exerted an influence on the interaction of minerals and life.