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The first ice core library in Antarctica to save humanity’s climate memory With an average temperature of -50°C, Antarctica’s first-ever 100% natural sanctuary protects endangered ice cores from global warming.

The first ice core library in Antarctica to save humanity’s climate memory share.google/NM3ct7r0Z8Zl...

"...[S]tripped of the relational encounters that might complicate the narrative of a purely scientific Arctic. What remains is a separation of people from environment."

Check out our CFP below! #envhist #envhum #histsci #polar #alpine #climate
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Oil Is Not Energy What happens when an entire industry hides behind a single word?

What happens when an entire industry - including Enbridge - hides behind a single word?

Read more to find out:

Photograph of a tree with snow with text stating the winter deadline to submit to Germinate is December 31st.

Don't miss the chance to submit to Germinate!
The winter deadline for our peer reviewed section is December 31st. Submissions are welcome between 1,200 and 2,000 words that connect the environmental present to its past.

We're excited to read your work!

g-ehr.com/submit/

Provocation: Bob Frame et al (incl @widewhitestage.bsky.social) , "Monuments for the End of the World?: Antarctic Heritage Ecology in the Early Anthropocene" proposes a role for #envhum in formalizing a shift from predominantly historical to increasingly futures-focused heritage.

Russia arrests Ukrainian biologist for backing curbs on Antarctic krill fishing ‘Trumped-up’ charges spark diplomatic row as scientists express fears for health of 70-year-old Leonid Pshenichnov

Russia has kidnapped a 70-year-old Ukrainian marine biologist, Leonid Pshenichnov, for backing a curb on Antarctic krill fishing, saying that it would harm the economic interests of Russia.

Yes, actually, that’s a great question/point… I am honestly not too sure in terms of that in Ukraine, but at least in terms of russia there’s also the question of migrant workers being forcibly mobilised too..

I’ll be sharing some more recent work as part of this symposium this Friday. It’s a hybrid event, so feel free to register to attend via Zoom (or in-person, rsvp required)!

Overshooters | Wim Carton and Andreas Malm It was not the underprivileged who took the initiative. It was one Luke Iseman, merchant of hardware and software, founder of multiple companies, former director of a “tech incubator,” builder of art ...

“Overshoot ideology came packaged in a peculiarly Californian business ethos in which unhinged entrepreneurialism was elevated to a cultural form.” New online: Wim Carton and Andreas Malm on recent experiments in geoengineering.
www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

And @melhogan.bsky.social has collected an excellent library on Critical Data Center Studies at:

Indigenomicon

Jodi Byrd's introduction🔥 to their forthcoming book Indigenomicon now available to download!!! (Full book available in November!) www.dukeupress.edu/indigenomicon

Freedom - Words Without Borders In Kseniia Bolshakova's “Freedom,” written in her native Dolgan, a child finds joyful escape from an everyday life marked by injustice.

“My stepdad, Misha, has been digging around in the snowmobile all morning.”

Read “Freedom,” a short story by Kseniia Bolshakova—translated from the Dolgan by Kseniia Bolshakova and Ainsley Morse—in @wwborders.bsky.social this #WomenInTranslationMonth!
wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...

Today @nichecanada.bsky.social I introduce *A Cold Colonialism* — its origin story, its main characters and arguments, and its potential to shift how we think about exploration, the North, and colonialism’s relationships with both. Enjoy! #cdnhist #envhist #Arctic niche-canada.org/2025/06/03/n...

Here are some selected resources for faculty (or anyone) traveling in and out of the US this summer, compiled by CDAF @aaup.bsky.social www.aaup.org/sites/defaul...

When I say you're the currency, I mean you. I don't mean your data or content, I mean you -- you surrender your affect, feeling, reasoning, discomfort, joy, etc., to extractive capitalism.

A green and yellow promotional graphic for a new Points essay, “The Network State and Topological Fetishism in Greenland” by Zane Griffin Talley Cooper. The graphic also features a quote from the essay: "Land is not code. It can never be code. Topography is felt, not just seen."

In his essay for our series “The Cloud is Dead,” D&S affiliate @zgtcooper.bsky.social examines resource extraction in the Arctic and how fantasies of the Network State run counter to the reality of life in Greenland. datasociety.net/points/the-n...

really looking forward to this 🧊