Summer is gradually cooling down here in North America, so that means a slightly less overwhelming current of disasters and climate impact news. I wish I could say we are shifting attention to climate politics with the upcoming U.S. election, but it remains a back burner issue. Climate impacts Experts Are Fighting Over Whether to… Continue reading Climate Roundup: Back to climate school
Author: Sara Davis
Reading Roundup: August 2024
The Crane Husband by Kelly Barnhill. A slim, creepy, and evocative novella about the tolls that art and love can take--on the ones that make them and the people around them. I got interested in the crane wife story back when CJ Hauser's wonderful essay was going viral: the appeal, in the folktale, cranes are… Continue reading Reading Roundup: August 2024
Takeaways from Introduction to Disaster Management
In spring 2023, I took an 8-week course titled Introduction to Disaster Management. I've thought about the material from that course very frequently ever since--especially during the summer, when we see more frequent fires, floods, hurricanes, and heat waves. I've struggled to summarize and share this information, though. The textbook we used for the course… Continue reading Takeaways from Introduction to Disaster Management
Reading Roundup: July 2024
Walden by Henry David Thoreau. Sometime, I missed reading this in high school or college. I mostly knew Thoreau as the butt of a joke: the man who went to live in the woods but still had his mother nearby to send him food and do his laundry. But I learned more recently that Thoreau's… Continue reading Reading Roundup: July 2024
Climate Roundup: Another long hot summer
Climate impacts Earth Is Sneakily Getting Thicker and Our Days Are Getting Longer, Scientists Say (Popular Mechanics, July 18, 2024) Barred Owls Blur Lines Between Invasive Species and Refugees (Atmos, July 1, 2024) Climate change is already making your bills more expensive (Washington Post, June 24, 2024) Extreme heat is wilting and burning forests, making… Continue reading Climate Roundup: Another long hot summer
Reading Roundup: June 2024
How Much of These Hills is Gold, Ship Fever, A Billion Black Anthropocenes, Closer. And In the Dream House, again.
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