Latest Original Ideas podcast discusses challenges of and solutions to heatwaves

Across the 19th and 20th centuries, urban residents developed a range of strategies to manage extreme heat in densely built environments.

Across the 19th and 20th centuries, urban residents developed a range of strategies to manage extreme heat in densely built environments.

Abstract. At the turn of the twentieth century, Paris, New York, and London were epicenters of urban modernity, but these cities and their inhabitants were

Abstract. In Brittany, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, seaweed was more than just a fundamental element of coastal ecologies. It sust

En 1911, les Français vivent deux mois et demi d’extrême sécheresse et de températures anormalement élevées. Une canicule parmi les plus lo...

Loch Euport, North Uist: Crofters have harvested the slippery stuff here for centuries, now part of a sustainable system. But it’s still back-breaking work

🌡️ Cette semaine, le pays est concerné par une vague de chaleur : il s'agira de la 50ème observée depuis 1947. Signe du changement climatique, 32 vagues de chaleur ont déjà eu lieu depuis 2000, ...

A book examining the power of the mistral wind and the ways it has challenged central tenets of nineteenth-century European society.