Can Art Save the “Post-Apocalyptic” Salton Sea?
In this Mad Max–like California landscape, artists and activists are inventing renewable alternatives to the capitalist system that’s developing but also destroying the region. ✽ Dusk at the…
Tag: climate change
Inuit Innovation: grassroots hydropower green transition among sheep farmers
by Florian Stammler, Asiarpa Paviasen and Tupaarnaq Kreutzmann-Kleist What connects dams, hydropower, green energy, agriculture, sheep farming and Inuit in Greenland? Inuit are better known in the pop…
Carbon Capture and Storage Emerging as a Major Climate Solution at COP28
By Ajmal Khan A.T, National Law University of India and Harvard University Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) is emerging as one of the major global climate solutions. Currently,…
Spiritual Engagement in Climate Governance: Lessons from COP 28
By Veronica Bayiha ñwa Quillien, The Language Attitude Institute Self & Climate Change As a member of the Bàsàa people of Cameroon, I have witnessed firsthand the profound…
COP and its Temporalities
By Cristóbal Emilfork, University of California, Davis Not only countries met at the COP. The venue also seemed to be a meeting point for diverse temporalities. As yet…
Observing the Just Transition: From Colombia to COP28
By Emma Banks, Bucknell University When I stopped by the Colombia Pavilion during week two of COP28, I was greeted by a familiar name on the speakers’ list:…
Evidence and Experience at the Climate-Health Nexus
By Annikki Herranen-Tabibi, Harvard Medical School, United States On a sweltering afternoon in the congested Expo City of Dubai, I entered the COP28 Visitor Center to collect my…
The ‘Spectacle’ of Youth Participation at COP 28
By Mark Ortiz, the Pennsylvania State University An image of the exterior of the Youth Hub in the COP 28 Green Zone, Dubai, UAE. Photo taken by Author.…
COP City and the Caribbean Climate Masquerade
By Ryan Cecil Jobson, The University of Chicago In November 2023, Caribbean heads-of-state, government ministers, and environmental advisors arrived in the United Arab Emirates for the COP28 C…
“Do We Still Belong There?” Interfaith Climate Organizations’ Critical Engagement at COP28
By Sarah Hautzinger, Professor of Anthropology, Colorado College People from a variety of faith traditions gather at the Faith Pavilion of the United Nations climate summit COP28 for…
Being a “Good Man” in a Time of Climate Catastrophe
An anthropologist follows a group of men who work in India’s rickshaw industry, revealing how their practices of masculinity and mutual aid shape their responses to intensifying flood…
On Observing: Reflections on UN Climate Policy Negotiations from Paris to the Present
Observe (verb) notice or perceive (something) and register it as being significant. watch (someone or something) carefully and attentively. take note of or detect (something) in the course…
Cultivating Modern Farms Using Ancient Lessons
An anthropologist examines what past farmers can teach us about adapting to climate change amid—and sometimes against—powerful political influences. This article was originally published at The Conve…
Ethnographic Insights into Climate Worlds
A Special Ethnographic Collection on the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), 28th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 28). By Emily Hite (Saint Loui…
“Nature-Based Solutions” to the Climate Conundrum: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
By Katie Foster, University of Georgia, United States Each year, the annual meeting of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), known as the Conference of…
Navigating Global Environmental Governance: Insights from a Climate COP and a Biological Diversity COP
By Beatriz Lima Ribeiro, Indiana University Bloomington, United States In this essay, I explore the connection between two key global environmental forums: UNFCCC Conference of the Parties 28…
Leaders, Victims, and Fugitives at COP 28
By Emily Hite, Saint Louis University, United States “Nature is a leader.” “Water is a victim.” “Gas is a fugitive.” These narratives were reiterated by politicians and indust…
How Does COP28 Produce the Future?
By Bea Addis, Washington University in Saint Louis & Samara Brock, Yale University, United States. Focusing on both the location of this COP as a backdrop as well…
Natural laboratories and the geographies of climate change technologies
by Emilia Groupp, Stanford University, United States What if the solution to climate change was as easy as building giant space mirrors that reflect sunlight away from the…
The Revolution Will Be Hilarious: Comedy for Social Change and Civic Power – review
Caty Borum‘s The Revolution Will Be Hilarious: Comedy for Social Change and Civic Power considers how comedy intersects with activism and drives social change. Borum’s accessible text draw…
The Taste of Dwindling Flows, Chowdy fish in the Little Rann of Kutch in India
By Sita Mamidipudi, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Too Salty Najma and her family are Muslim fishworkers who live half a mile away from…
Strange Future
A Nigerian eco-activist and poet wonders what future lies ahead in the face of climate change impacts and resistance to large-scale emission reductions. “Strange Future” is part of…
A Theory of Everyone: Who We Are, How We Got Here, and Where We’re Going – review
In A Theory of Everyone: Who We Are, How We Got Here, and Where We’re Going, Michael Muthukrishna contends that the core issue affecting Western societies is increasing energy…
Extreme Arctic weather impacts for animal husbandry
Florian Stammler and Erik Kielsen Much has been written already about the losses of reindeer due to icing-over, or rain on snow events, among reindeer herders in Siberia…