Content tagged "climate change"
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Alum Candis Callison delivers this year’s MIT Ph.D. hooding ceremony address
Read her call to make the world “more just, more fair”.
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Podcast: Liz Koslov, “Mapping Climate Change: Contested Futures in New York City’s Flood Zone”
In New York City hundreds of thousands of people and billions of dollars in property lie in a high-risk flood zone, but FEMA flood maps minimize the risk.
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Mapping Climate Change: Contested Futures in New York City’s Flood Zone
Explore how certain places come to be seen as “at risk” in anticipation of climate change, and what this way of seeing means for their inhabitants. Drawing on fieldwork over four years in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, the talk will focus on the fraught development and implementation of new FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) flood maps for New York City, where hundreds of thousands of people and billions of dollars in property now lie in the high-risk flood zone.
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Frontlines of Crisis, Forefront of Change: Climate Justice as an Intervention into (Neo)colonial Climate Action Narratives and Practices
Radical media strategies, on the streets and on the airwaves, are central to the articulation of climate justice and the contestation of hegemonic meanings of climate action that legitimise colonial violence.
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Ghost Forests of the Mid-Atlantic: How Sea-level Rise Is Killing Our Coastlines
As sea-level rise and human development combine to narrow the range of coastal ecosystems, problems arise for local flora and fauna, natural nutrient cycles, and coastal communities.
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Geographies of Nowhere: Smeltertown and the Rising Wave of Environmental Refugees
We don’t often think of modern American communities as places that disappear. But lead pollution erased the tiny TX community of Smeltertown from the map.
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Swimming Sentinels: Climate Clues from Stranded Marine Mammals
By paying attention to whales and dolphins, seals and sea otters, we may be able to learn something about our planet, and how its changes will impact its most abundant mammal: us.
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Loss, Mourning, and Climate Change
What might mourning loss due to climate change reveal about the deeper relationship between human and non-human life in the environment?
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“The right side of history”: MIT releases its climate change report
“The time has come for MIT to play a prominent, visible part in the action and solutions needed to confront the climate challenge. “
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The Reef at the End of the World
In Palau’s Nikko Bay and a few other acidified Rock Island sites, life appears to be shrugging off a sneak preview of the coral-reef apocalypse. Are the corals really okay?
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How Climate Change Comes to Matter: The Communal Life of Facts
“In this innovative ethnography, Candis Callison examines the initiatives of social and professional groups as they encourage diverse American publics to care about climate change.”
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Air Trade: Promises — and Pitfalls — in the Coming Carbon Market
The market designs that have been proposed, along with reasons why the carbon market is likely to fail to live up to its greatest promise.
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Ocean Fertilization: Ecological Cure or Calamity
Using the open ocean as a means to solve the complex problem of global warming raises deep questions about how humans think of and use the Earth.
