The Earth recently reached a grim milestone. On 24 October, the World Meteorological Organization reported in its annual Greenhouse Gas Bulletin that a strong El Niño weather
What was it about the Panama Papers that made people so angry? Leaking of classified information and geopolitical deceit aside, it is because the public
The themes of the Silk Road, spirituality, and the environment rarely come together in contemporary art, so I feel fortunate to have recently met an
The Doomsday Clock at the University of Chicago is a symbolic timepiece that estimates how many “minutes” remain before the “midnight” of a global catastrophe.
Next month, Paris will host the 21st session of the Conference of the Parties (COP21) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), with
The scope of the environmental crisis may leave us feeling overwhelmed and helpless to do anything about it. According to Joanna Macy, it is necessary
Confronting the most significant environmental alteration in human memory demands two responses: adaptation (adjusting to the risks and consequences) and mitigation (how we lessen and
When we consider the ever-more-frequent headlines about large-scale devastation wrought by climate change, we see a metaphor for the human experience of suffering writ large.
