‘The Climate Trail’: Survival game pits players against climate catastrophe
“The Burn,” years of uncontrollable and widespread wildfires fueled by prolonged drought and unrelenting heat across the globe, has devastated much of the United States. You’re trapped in a survivor...
View Article‘Cranky Uncle’ smart phone game will show you how to disarm climate deniers
When it comes to climate change, it seems every family has its own version of the proverbial Cranky Uncle. An uncle, cousin, grandparent, in-law, neighbor, whatever. Just think back to the recent...
View ArticleVirginia Tech theater project helps people visualize flood scenarios
In a theater at Virginia Tech, audience members are invited to stand with their eyes closed and imagine themselves on a beach, wading into the ocean. But then this relaxing visualization takes a turn....
View ArticleClimate fiction for climate action
The End of the Ocean is Norwegian author Maja Lunde’s second in a quartet of novels about how climate change and ecological destruction is reshaping the planet and human life as we know it. Like the...
View ArticleBooks about life in the Anthropocene
New years that end in zeros often prompt longer-range reflections. Not just “What does the New Year hold?” but “What might the new decade bring?” (as with 2020) or even “What should we hope for in the...
View Article‘Ablaze’: A haunting new song about Australia’s wildfires
Art as a form of protest and consciousness-raising long has been a potent contribution to society’s challenge of grappling with injustice, calamity, inhumanity … and now climate change. The visceral...
View ArticleNew and recent books about hope in a time of climate change
A warm day in winter used to be a rare and uplifting relief. Now such days are routine reminders of climate change – all the more foreboding when they coincide with news stories about unprecedented...
View ArticleAn estranged view of the world
How will the climate crisis impact the planet’s most marginalized communities? That question is at the heart of the Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning author Anne Charnock’s latest novel, Bridge 108. Like...
View Article‘The Automatic Earth’ is ‘confrontational’ new music about climate change
Composer Steven Bryant of Durham, North Carolina, is worried about global warming, and he’s expressing his anxiety through a recent composition. “It’s not a piece of music that describes the...
View ArticleSeven of the best new documentaries about global warming
NEVADA CITY, CALIF. “It’s not easy to watch.” That was a recurring introductory remark at screenings during the recent 2020 Wild & Scenic Film Festival. Held each year in the bucolic foothills of...
View Article15 books about women leading the way on climate change
To observe Women’s History Month, Yale Climate Connections has again chosen to present a selection of new and recent titles on how women’s lives will be affected by climate change and on how women are...
View ArticleNew online tool helps Indiana towns prepare for climate change
Heat waves. Floods. Droughts. Across the country, communities are experiencing the effects of climate change. But no two places are identical. So a new online tool is helping towns in Indiana see how...
View ArticleFashion designer Miranda Bennett cuts carbon from her clothing line
From spinning and weaving fabric to shipping garments around the globe, the clothing industry creates a lot of carbon pollution. It’s a problem made worse by the sheer volume that the industry produces...
View ArticleArtificial intelligence and climate change converge
What do the climate crisis and artificial intelligence have in common? In the world of Anthropocene Rag, the latest novel by writer and game designer Alex Irvine, they both completely alter our...
View Article12 books to help you get through the coronavirus pandemic
Coronavirus. Incubation period. N95s. Social distance. Self-quarantine. Shelter in place. Lockdown. Flatten the curve. This is the terminology of a new and disconcerting way of life. The sudden...
View Article12 books for the 50th anniversary of Earth Day
When Americans gathered for the first Earth Day on April 20, 1970, blatant examples of pollution and environmental destruction were on the agenda: rivers that caught fire as a result of the flammable...
View ArticleEditor’s commentary: Our extraordinary 50th Earth Day
Happy 50th anniversary of Earth Day. Well, sort of anyway, “happy” being a relative term in these extraordinarily turbulent times. This no doubt will be the strangest Earth Day: Each day since the...
View ArticleMichael Moore’s ‘Planet of the Humans’ documentary peddles dangerous climate...
Environmentalists and renewable energy advocates have long been allies in the fight to keep unchecked industrial growth from irreversibly ruining Earth’s climate and threatening the future of human...
View ArticleClimate change and robotics reshape the world in ‘Avatars Inc.’
The XPRIZE Foundation – a nonprofit dedicated to organizing competitions to develop new technologies in space travel, ocean clean-up, robotics, and other environmental initiatives – published a free...
View ArticleCli-fi movies: A guide for socially-distanced viewers
With the coronavirus curves flattening, the new challenge is to prepare to re-engage the world while maintaining social distancing. Toward that end, Yale Climate Connections has prepared this guide to...
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