New technologies are refortifying our coastlines against anthropogenic climate change, drawing our water edgelands near and making them tangible and perhaps valuable.
Climate Change
People of the Bean
An heirloom bean club brings culinary community and diverse foodways to its legume lovers’ doors.
Beer Can Photography
In an age of digital technology, an experiment with pinhole cameras reveals a striking record of the sun’s daily path and a changing landscape in northern Sweden.
Gifting Water in a Climate-Impacted Megacity
Cairo’s charitable water fountains are proliferating as locals respond to increasing thermal discomfort due to climate change.
Ten Things about Collaborating for Climate Solutions
Heather Lazrus is an environmental anthropologist who studies perceptions of and responses to extreme weather in the context of a changing climate.
The Social Lives of Climate Reports
IPCC reports are hailed as objective, empirical evidence. But the social life of their production and circulation has much to do with conflicting politics, values, and choices.
Unsustainable City
In New York, the sustainable city is being built on its own undoing.
Scientists Predict the Future for Antarctic Ice
The Antarctic ice sheets are losing mass at an accelerating rate. How do scientists explain and engage with this increasingly urgent climate crisis?
Forensic Anthropology in a Changing Climate
In 2018, a wildfire swept through Northern California. Forensic anthropologists were called in to identify skeletal remains in a devastated recovery scene.
My Petrochemical Love
For women of color on Louisiana’s Gulf Coast, everyday environmental and climate activism is entangled with intimate lives.
