Tag Archives: climate change
‘Fire Weather’
John Vaillant, whose journalism, fiction, and non-fiction explore collisions between human ambition and the natural world, will speak at Boston College on March 11 at 7 p.m. in Gason 100. Vaillant is the author of the acclaimed book Fire Weather: … Continue reading
Ecological hospitality
Hosting Earth: Facing the Climate Emergency (Routledge, 2024) is a timely volume in the emerging literature of environmental philosophy. Co-edited by Boston College Charles Seelig Professor of Philosophy Richard Kearney and BC alumni Peter Klapes and Urwa Hameed, the book … Continue reading
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In the air and on the sea, pollution goes under the radar
International shipping and aviation stand as two major sources of global greenhouse gas emissions not governed by national inventories and the U.N. Paris Climate agreement. Since the Kyoto Protocol in 1997, regulating greenhouse gas emissions from these two industries has … Continue reading
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Forest ecologist Suzanne Simard
University of British Columbia Professor of Forest Ecology Suzanne Simard, author of the highly acclaimed book Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest (Vintage/Penguin Random House), will give a talk on September 27 at 7 p.m. in … Continue reading
The future according to Kim Stanley Robinson
Award-winning science fiction writer Kim Stanley Robinson, author of more than 20 books, will present “The Future of Climate, Technology, and Society” on March 29 at 7 p.m. in Gasson Hall, room 100. Robinson is best known for his Mars … Continue reading
Climate Lyricism
Boston College Professor of English Min Hyoung Song articulates a climate change-centered reading practice in his new book Climate Lyricism (Duke University Press, 2022). Song shows how contemporary poetry and fiction, especially by Black, Native American, Asian American, and Latinx … Continue reading
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Social scientists on global crises
According to Carroll School Ferris Professor of Management and Organization Jean Bartunek, experts in the natural sciences aren’t the only ones who have vital perspectives on crises such as climate change and COVID. Social scientists understand how such global crises … Continue reading
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An environmental call to arms
Acclaimed environmental photographer James Balog, an alumnus of Boston College, presents four decades of his ground-breaking photography in the new book, The Human Element: A Time Capsule from the Anthropocene (Rizzoli, 2021). Balog has traveled well over a million miles … Continue reading
The Secret Lives of Glaciers
Geographer and glaciologist M Jackson will discuss her book, The Secret Lives of Glaciers, at a webinar on October 7 at 7 p.m. In The Secret Lives of Glaciers, Jackson explores the profound impacts of glacier change on the human and … Continue reading
Amitav Ghosh on climate change
Writer Amitav Ghosh, whose non-fiction work, The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable (University of Chicago Press, 2016), highlighted the failure of writers, politicians, and others to address climate change, will give a talk on Feb. 12 at 7 … Continue reading
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