Amitav Ghosh: “Terraforming is happening now”
On his new book, ‘Wild Fictions’, environmental disasters, migration, and the truth within speculative fiction ...
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The warming Arctic is now a carbon source, report finds
The Arctic region has shifted from storing carbon dioxide to releasing it into the atmosphere, according to the 2024 Arctic ...
6 Intimate, Powerful Memoirs to Read This Month
“Memories are conjurings,” writes Lidia Yuknavitch in this quicksilver, expansive exploration of grief and hauntings (the ...
Ibram X. Kendi to join Howard University faculty, launch research institute
Historian and writer Ibram X. Kendi, who wrote the bestseller “How To Be an Antiracist” and led a center on the subject at ...
After fires, Los Angeles gets moonshot moment to rebuild
Nonetheless, experts in urban development, climate change and housing said Los Angeles has a chance to think outside the box.
Zadie Smith on her groundbreaking debut, White Teeth, 25 years on: ‘I never think about my novels a year after I’ve written them’
The Cambridge student was only 24 when she released her ostentatious debut. Critics and fellow writers fell over themselves ...
Death by choice
Research by the American legal scholar, Richard Posner, suggests that having the option of assisted suicide causes people ...
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Being part of powerful network working for social change
MA Power, Participation & Social Change alum Bruna Viana de Freitas answers questions about her experience of studying her master’s at IDS.
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Canada Has Spent Over a Century Avoiding Collapse. Can It Keep Going?
The remaining decades of this century will be very difficult. The country will face major upheavals. And our governments are ...
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After the LA Fires
When the Eaton Fire first began its retreat from Altadena, I was in one of many self-organized mutual aid teams scattered ...