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Full open-access volume Vajont: The Political Ecology of an Unnatural Disaster (2026) by Marco Armiero.

The Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society (RCC) is an international research center dedicated to the study of environment and society from a wealth of disciplines and perspectives.

After a quarter of a century of enthusiastic development, research on Latin American environmental history stands strong but dispersed.

Alexa Weik von Mossner explores the role storytelling plays in shaping the future we are creating.

The intense deluges, never before documented, represent the highest number of back-to-back extreme weather events in the past 700 years

Exclusive: Newly uncovered documents reveal chemicals giant was aware ‘environmentally neutral’ products did not biodegrade

The Age of the Anthropoiescene is a time of sympoietic tanglings with the human and more-than-human ghosts of deep time.

Scholar Jamie Wang explores the affordance of story and storytelling in a climate-changed world and a climate-changing future.

It doesn’t have to be this way. We know what needs to be done

Full book, Climate Crisis as a Challenge for the Humanities: A Reader, edited by Karin Esders.

Rob Gioeilli argues that environmental humanities scholars need to push themselves to engage across disciplines.