Rediscovered Reports From 19th-Century Environmental Volunteers Advance the Research of Today’s Citizen Scientists in New York
Skip to content Science Rediscovered Reports From 19th-Century Environmental Volunteers Advance the Research of Today’s Citizen Scientists in New York After unearthing 200-year-old seasonal observations from across New York, a team of researchers found a window into the past of the state’s natur
GeschichteMindful of Its Impact on the Planet, the Art World Aims for Sustainability
Efforts to lower the industry’s carbon footprint have led to new practices, like more sea shipping and rethinking auctions and fairs. Last month, a man disguised as an older woman sitting in a wheelchair brazenly smeared cream pastry onto Leonardo da Vinci’s most famous work, the Mona Lisa.
Kunst** RECOMMENDED READING ** The 1977 White House climate memo that should have changed the world
In 1977 Star Wars hit movie theaters, New York City had a blackout that lasted 25 hours, and the Apple II personal computer went up for sale. It was also the year that a remarkable one-page memo was circulated at the very highest levels of US government.
Geschichte USA'Girls' education is a climate solution': Malala Yousafzai joins climate protest
STOCKHOLM, June 10 (Reuters) - The fight against climate change is also a fight for the right to education of girls, millions of whom lose access to schools due to climate-related events, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai told Reuters on Friday.
BildungDipesh Chakrabarty: „Wir Menschen müssen lernen, als Minderheit zu leben“
Herr Chakrabarty, mit Ihrem Werk Europa als Provinz haben Sie maßgeblich die antikoloniale Geschichtsschreibung geprägt. Was hat Sie motiviert, sich in den letzten Jahren mit dem Klimawandel und dem Faktor Mensch in der Geschichte des Planeten zu beschäftigen?
Geschichte glob. Klimagerechtigk.How the planet became the prime political entity of our century
Imagine a vast circular chamber, with walls covered in a towering painted map of planet Earth. Picture this hall ‘like a theatre, except that the circles and galleries go right round through the space usually occupied by the stage’. Enormous rings of tiered seating circle its outer walls.
PhilosophieCaesar’s favourite herb was the Viagra of ancient Rome. Until climate change killed it off
Of all the mysteries of ancient Rome, silphium is among the most intriguing. Romans loved the herb as much as we love chocolate. They used silphium as perfume, as medicine, as an aphrodisiac and turned it into a condiment, called laser, that they poured on to almost every dish.
KlimageschichteDerrière le désespoir des jeunes, la trahison des adultes
Trois ans plus tard (et une pandémie), l’ambiance n’aurait pas pu être plus différente. Je l’ai senti pendant que je parlais, un murmure général dans l’auditorium rempli de jeunes de 16 et 17 ans, qui s’atténuait parfois un peu, mais ne disparaissait jamais vraiment.
OptimismusWhat lessons can we learn from the last great cooling-off period?
In early February 1814, an elephant walked across the surface of the Thames near Blackfriars Bridge in London. The stunt was performed during the frost fair, when temperatures were so cold that for four days the top layers of the river froze solid.
KlimageschichteFrédéric Choffat filme le cri d'alarme de la jeunesse pour le climat
À partir d’entretiens avec ses deux enfants adolescents et activistes, Frédéric Choffat tisse dans "Tout commence" une réflexion intime sur une jeunesse suisse prise entre crise climatique et pandémie, mais qui continue à croire et à s’engager malgré tout.
DokfilmVom autofreien Sonntag zur zur grünen Hand des Markts
Der internationale Thintank Club of Rome publizierte im Frühling 1972 kurz vor dem ersten Umweltgipfel der Vereinten Nationen in Stockholm seinen Bericht zu den «Grenzen des Wachstums». Die deutsche Wochenzeitung «Die Zeit» sprach von einer «Bombe im Taschenbuchformat».
GeschichteVanessa Nakate on how girls’ education can help solve the climate crisis
DEADLY FLOODING and landslides have become a regular threat in my hometown of Kampala, the capital of Uganda. In 2019, we were hit particularly hard: the rains killed more than a dozen people and washed away people’s belongings and businesses.
GenderPolar bears move into abandoned Arctic weather station – photo essay
Ihad dreamed about photographing polar bears for a long time. Some time ago my hobby, wildlife photography, ceased to be just a hobby and turned into a large part of my life. And if you devote so much time to an activity then your goals should be ambitious.
Arktis & Antarktis FotografieUmweltsünder Museum – Wie man Pipilotti Rist klimafreundlicher ausstellt
Ein Museum in Los Angeles macht vor, wie man die Produktion von CO₂ bei einer internationalen Blockbuster-Ausstellung stark reduziert und kompensiert. Längst hat der Druck der Klimabewegung die Kultur und ihre Akteure und Institutionen erreicht.
KunstLe paradoxe de Babel : Penser une société écologique anti-crise
Les récits de la tour de Babel et de l’arche de Noé devraient être relus à la lumière des situations que nous imposent la pandémie de coronavirus. En ces temps de crise globale de durabilité, leur relecture nous offre des éclairages saisissants.
Philosophie SystemwandelHistorischer Vulkanausbruch – 18 Monate Dämmerung, fünf Jahre ohne Sommer
Verheerende Vulkanausbrüche veränderten den Lauf der Geschichte. Zu einer prägenden Katastrophe kam es im Jahr 536. Noch immer rätseln Forscher, wo genau. Besorgt schauten die Menschen im Jahr 536 in den Himmel.
KlimageschichteDas Klima wandelt uns: Wir sind in ein neues Zeitalter eingetreten, aber wir haben es noch nicht gemerkt
Der Klimawandel betrifft längst nicht mehr nur Menschen an der Peripherie der Weltgesellschaft, im fernen Mikronesien, in Bangladesh oder Äthiopien. Das ist heute eine Trivialität.
Philosophie SystemwandelSome thoughts on strategy, and climate change, and feeling like you’re not trying your hardest…
How hard should you try to prevent global catastrophe? The question sounds grotesque — immoral, even — when you say it out loud. Why would you not try your hardest? When billions of lives hang in the balance, how dare you look away. How dare you hesitate. How dare you think of anything else.
PhilosophieApocalypse nowadays: the new wave of films about the end of the world
Which films kept you entertained over the holidays? Was it Silent Night, the sweary festive Britcom starring Keira Knightley? The courtroom drama Naked Singularity, with John Boyega as a crusading lawyer? Or did you watch Leonardo DiCaprio as a dorky astronomer in Don’t Look Up, a slapstick politi
FilmI’m a climate scientist. Don’t Look Up captures the madness I see every day
The movie Don’t Look Up is satire. But speaking as a climate scientist doing everything I can to wake people up and avoid planetary destruction, it’s also the most accurate film about society’s terrifying non-response to climate breakdown I’ve seen.
FilmHow will humanity endure the climate crisis? I asked an acclaimed sci-fi writer
To really grasp the present, we need to imagine the future – then look back from it to better see the now. The angry climate kids do this naturally. The rest of us need to read good science fiction. A great place to start is Kim Stanley Robinson.
LiteraturCoal Powered the Industrial Revolution. It Left Behind an ‘Absolutely Massive’ Environmental Catastrophe
HAROLD, Ky.—Along the winding, two lane road that leads to Tracy Neece’s mountain, there’s no hint of the huge scars in the hills beyond the oaks and the pines. Green forests cover steep slopes on each side of the road, which turns from blacktop to dusty gravel. Modest homes are nestled into the bottomlands along […]
Kohle GeschichteBruno Latour : « L’écologie, c’est la nouvelle lutte des classes »
EntretienAfin de remédier à l’impuissance politique face au réchauffement climatique et de remobiliser une écologie qui oscille souvent entre la moralisation et l’ennui, le philosophe et sociologue repense la notion de conflit social.
PhilosophieSongs of conquest from Tallis to the bells of Mexico City
Dover Priory, 16 November 1535: at a modest monastic establishment on the edge of one of England’s main working ports, the nearest to the continent of Europe, the abbot signs a ‘deed of surrender’, turning over the establishment and all its property from the Church to the king.
Amerikas Kolonialismus Geschichte MusikAntarctica was once a rainforest. Could it be again?
The coldest continent on Earth used to be as warm as Italy. Here’s how we know. Not far from the South Pole, more than half a mile below the ocean in a region that was once covered by ice, a layer of ancient fossils tells a surprising story about the coldest continent on Earth.
Arktis & Antarktis KlimageschichteGlobal heating is destroying rock art tens of thousands of years old, experts warn
Rock art that has lasted tens of thousands of years is being destroyed by the climate emergency in a matter of years. Coastal erosion, fires, floods and cyclones are among the extreme events predicted to get more severe with global heating.
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