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Put Down That Flyswatter: Why We Need Flies to Exist

Put Down That Flyswatter: Why We Need Flies to Exist

Oliver Milman on Our Great Debt to Insects

By Oliver Milman | March 14, 2022

When the Earth Started to Sing: A Sonic Journey Created by David G. Haskell

When the Earth Started to Sing: A Sonic Journey Created by David G. Haskell

This Week from the Emergence Magazine Podcast

By Emergence Magazine | March 7, 2022

How Writing a Children’s Book is an Antidote to Doomsday Thinking

How Writing a Children’s Book is an Antidote to Doomsday Thinking

Ben Okri on Imagining the Impossible

By Ben Okri | February 22, 2022

Maeve Higgins on the Toxic Power of the Political Euphemism

Maeve Higgins on the Toxic Power of the Political Euphemism

On the Origins of “Tree Hugger” and “Climate Change”

By Maeve Higgins | February 11, 2022

Martin Puchner on the Climate Lessons from the <em>Epic of Gilgamesh</em>

Martin Puchner on the Climate Lessons from the Epic of Gilgamesh

“How should we humans narrate our self-made climate disaster?”

By Martin Puchner | February 9, 2022

Daniel Yergin on the New Map of Energy and Geopolitics

Daniel Yergin on the New Map of Energy and Geopolitics

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | February 8, 2022

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How Histories Have the Power to Create a More Just Future

By Emergence Magazine | January 31, 2022

Place is Not a Character—It is Its Own Story

By Morgan Thomas | January 25, 2022

Dissolving Genre: Toward Finding New Ways to Write About the World

By Ingrid Horrocks | January 6, 2022

Is Climate Writing Stuck?

Is Climate Writing Stuck?

Heather Houser on Spotting the Oft-Repeated “Tics” of the Genre

By Heather Houser | January 3, 2022

Migrants with Wings: On Flying Reindeer and the Inevitability of Migration

Migrants with Wings: On Flying Reindeer and the Inevitability of Migration

Jill Stoner Considers the Artificiality of Borders in a World Full of Crossings

By Jill Stoner | December 23, 2021

Bathsheba Demuth on the Environmental History of the Bering Strait

Bathsheba Demuth on the Environmental History of the Bering Strait

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | December 23, 2021

Liam Campling and Alejandro Colás on How the Sea Shaped Capitalism

Liam Campling and Alejandro Colás on How the Sea Shaped Capitalism

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | December 23, 2021

WATCH: Robin Wall Kimmerer, John Hausdoerffer, and Gavin Van Horn on Our Kinship With the Living World

WATCH: Robin Wall Kimmerer, John Hausdoerffer, and Gavin Van Horn on Our Kinship With the Living World

In partnership with Point Reyes Books and the Center for Humans and Nature

By The Virtual Book Channel | December 22, 2021

Devi Lockwood on the Personal Impact of Climate Change Around the World

Devi Lockwood on the Personal Impact of Climate Change Around the World

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | December 22, 2021

Does Climate Fiction Make a Difference?

Does Climate Fiction Make a Difference?

Matthew Schneider-Mayerson on Art As Mirror, Art As Hammer

By Matthew Schneider-Mayerson | December 16, 2021

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