"With its richness of civilizations, the Pan-Pacific realm has been experiencing especially severe environmental pollution and ecological crisis, associated with swift regional economic development over past decades."
By Sebastián Ureta & Patricio Flores, co-authors of Worlds of Gray and Green: Mineral Extraction as Ecological Practice“We are walking, talking minerals” —V. I. Vernadsky[1]Mineral extraction has a bad reputation nowadays. Decades of relentless extraction of minerals throughout the world
by Amelia Moore, author of Destination Anthropocene: Science and Tourism in the BahamasAs we all know by now, Hurricane Dorian
spun out of the Atlantic in early September and squarely hit the Bahamian islands
of Abaco and Grand Bahama, leaving an unfolding
disaster in its wake. Hurricanes a