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Building Farming Resilience with Climate-Smart Intervention
Nov 08 2024
Rural communities and livelihoods can be transformed into more resilient entities by focusing on knowledge transfer, better resource management, and livelihood diversification.
Finding hope in a precarious place
Oct 17 2024
While rising insurance rates in New Orleans reflect the challenges of engineering away from danger, we are drawn to something more powerful than a hurricane: a fierce cultural persistence for breaking bread in the ruins.
Michael Finewood and Michelle Luebke on Environmental Justice and the Bronx River Watershed
Oct 16 2024
Environmental injustice has become much more visible in recent years, thankfully, and people are looking for ways to incorporate environmental justice frameworks more explicitly into their research and teaching.
Lessons from the Middle East – 'the epicentre of climate discourse' – for a warming planet
Oct 14 2024
As climate change intensifies, we can learn a lot from the way that the Middle East has dealt with extreme heat. The region offers invaluable lessons – both cautionary and inspirational – for our warming world.
The Climate Crisis and Eroding Public Beach Access: A Q&A with Kara Murphy Schlichting, winner of the 2024 Forest History Society's Blegen Article Award
Sep 23 2024
Malibu's Broad Beach is backed by some of the most expensive, exclusive real estate in Los Angeles County and is a bellwether for how California coastal communities address the tension between public access and private development in the face of the climate crisis and sea level rise.
As renewable energy demand rises, mining for minerals in the Amazon is at a critical point
Sep 20 2024
Illegal mining for critical minerals needed for the global renewable energy transition is increasingly driving deforestation in Indigenous lands in the Amazon. In recent years, these illegal miners, who are often self-employed, mobile and working covertly, have expanded their gold mining operations to include cassiterite or “black gold”, a critical mineral essential for the renewable energy transition.
UC Press Launches Animal History, Documenting the Histories of Animals and Human-Animal Relationships
Aug 08 2024
Animal History publishes cutting-edge historical research on the histories of animals and human-animal relationships.
Q&A with Julie Guthman, author of The Problem with Solutions
Jul 17 2024
Why has Silicon Valley become the model for addressing today's myriad social and ecological crises? With this book, Julie Guthman digs into the impoverished solutions for food and agriculture currently emerging from Silicon Valley, urging us to stop trying to fix our broken food system through finit
Celebrating 10 Years of Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene
Jul 06 2024
In December 2013, UC Press’s mission-driven, trans-disciplinary, open-access journal Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene published its first article, ushering in its motto, “Open Science for Public Good.” In this blog post we pause to reflect and take note of some of the publication highlights fro
We Need to Reclaim the Muddy Waters of the Louisiana Gulf Coast From the Climate Crisis
May 31 2024
This post was originally published on DeSmog.By Ned Randolph, author of Muddy Thinking in the Mississippi River Delta: A Call for ReclamationI grew up in the shadow of the Mississippi River, whose mythology pressed upon my imagination. Its culture inspired iconic works and political move