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Dazzling and Dangerous: Epidemics, Space Physics, and Settler Understandings of the Aurora Borealis

By carsoncenter|2021-05-13T15:37:45+01:00February 3rd, 2021|

By Jennifer Fraser and Noah Stemeroff

Earlier this year, Explore, a multimedia company that operates the largest live nature camera network on the planet, noticed that one of its livestreams was going viral. The feed in question broadcasts from Churchill, Manitoba. Positioned directly beneath the auroral oval, this camera offers viewers a chance to catch a glimpse of the spectacular auroral displays that grace the city’s skyline nearly three hundred days of every year.

Resisting Climate Change Apocalypticism: Environmental Justice Activism from the South Pacific

By carsoncenter|2021-05-13T15:37:48+01:00January 28th, 2021|

By Hanna Straß-Senol

In late 2013, an Australian newspaper reported that a man from Kiribati “stood to make history as the world’s first climate refugee.” The New Zealand High Court, before which the man appeared, rejected the claim because the category of climate refugee was not included under the United Nation’s provisions for refugees.