Fiona and Liz talk to Margareta Windisch about the findings of her new PHD research into older women and heatwaves. We discuss the structural issues that impact on older women and how they cope with t...

By Dr Gemma Sou and Ms Clare Steele. We’re told ever-hotter summers are inevitable. What’s less discussed is that Britain’s ability to cope has been systematically dismantled — not by the climate itse...

Building rules have been focused on keeping warm in winter and saving on energy bills, not cooling down

In this article, we propose a method for ethnographic document analysis (EDA) and outline the key sensibilities and processes involved. Despite the ubiquity of ...

One Health has gained global prominence in recent years. Alongside its emergence, there have been extensive social science critiques. In this contribution, we make the case for the value of recent ...

In an era of climate change-driven weather events, extreme heat has become the most lethal form of “natural disaster” in the United States. However, i…

This collection is compiled by the Ecological Distress Collective, hosted at SOAS Anthropology. Introduction In recent years, the medical and psy...

“How did we miss this for so long? Women are often the last to get studied. But the most vulnerable people are those who are pregnant.”

Climate change has made tackling damaging temperature disparities increasingly urgent

Rising temperatures can affect your mental health, causing depression, anger and trouble concentrating. Learn the signs of heat-related mental health issues.

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It’s a civic resource, an index of inequality, and a requirement for public health. Shade should be a mandate for urban designers.

Yeast and white rot fungus could have a small but ingenious role to play in the energy transition.

My New Year’s resolution this year is not to wait until New Year’s to make resolutions.

Many of California's native ecosystems evolved to burn. Modern fire suppression creates fuels that lead to catastrophic fires. So why do people insist on rebuilding in the firebelt?

Nature - Nature examines whether the temperature spike is a blip or an enduring — and concerning — trend.

This funding call will generate a body of evidence on the health effects of climate change mitigation interventions in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs).

Women, This Holiday Season, Forget Dieting and Obsessing Over Body Image and Being Overweight: Commit to Your Communities Instead

This Special Issue grapples with the challenges of working with, on, and alongside trauma in anthropology. It shares experiences from doctoral and postdoctoral researchers, early career scholars, and...

We’re increasingly becoming a society in which very wealthy people get human care, like concierge medicine and private schools with tiny class sizes.

Farmers and fisherfolk across the world are shifting into nighttime work to escape perilous heat.

An alliance of political groups is harnessing real fears about the local impact of renewables projects across Australia – and using them to spruik nuclear power

Voters in the city of Everett chose to grant the Snohomish River watershed rights to exist, regenerate and flourish as part of a November ballot initiative.

Ian Williams on the right way to live

Official Statements and Open Letters published by the Association of Social Anthropologists of Aotearoa New Zealand

From the University of Auckland – Opinion: Cutting social sciences and humanities from NZ’s ‘blue skies’ research funding means dark times for independent thought.

Wild boars in southeastern Germany are known to contain high levels of radioactive cesium, which has been widely attributed to the 1986 Chernobyl disaster.