ALT The graphic shows an image of an old-fashioned, broken car mirror covered in frost and fallen leaves. Beneath it is a photo of Alison Pouliot. The text says (top-down, lef-right): RCC Environmental Writing Studio, Visual Narratives: Finding Words Through Images, A Report. RCC News. Now online with images! A Writing Workshop with Alison Pouliot.

ALT The graphic shows the logo of Seeing the Woods and the words: Part Four of Maile McFarland's graphic novel, Plastic Trouble, is available now! The image below is the cover image of the story, a landscape of plastic waste before a tall, snowy mountain top.

ALT Info in the graphic: title: Marine Mucilage, highlighted quote: The 2021 mucilage crisis highlighted the delicate ecology of the Sea of Marmara, and led to unprecedented comprehensive measures for the health of Türkiye's inland sea. By Ufuk Özdağ

ALT Full concept on this graphic: ‘One trouble is better than a thousand advice,’ says one Turkish proverb. The mucilage outbreak in the Sea of Marmara in 2021 taught the value of the marine food web. Through a combination of pollution and climate change, there was a massive explosion of mucilage in the Marmara, the gateway between the Aegean and the Black Sea. Although perhaps one of the initial causes had been overfishing of fish species, including dolphins, in the past. Marine ecosystems rely on their top predators, such as dolphins and whales. Their absence highlights the fragility of the seas and oceans, and the urgency to increase the number of marine reserves worldwide.

ALT The graphic includes an image compilation of different plants and insects. It also contains the following information: Tuesday Discussion with Julia Schmack and Michael Hemauer (Biodiversity Counselling Munich), 17 December 2024, at 16:30. Location: Leopoldstraße 11a, 80802 Munich, fourth floor, conference room

ALT Text in the graphic: RCC Reading Group, special guest: Sayantan Chakraborty, paper: "Traditional Land, Postcolonial Development, and Indigenous Ecocriticism in Ester Syiem's Poems", next meeting: 16 December 2024, 15:00-16:00 CET, location: online on Zoom

ALT screenshot of article front page, abstract reads: In August 2022, the US Congress surprisingly adopted the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), which included an ambitious package of decarbonization policies. Drawing on political economy perspectives and document analysis, this article explains the policy process that shaped the IRA. The policymaking process of the IRA is explored through an analytical framework adapted to the polarized political situation in the US, where traditional lawmaking strategies like seeking bipartisan compromise or conventional use of legislative procedures are largely defunct. The analysis shows how the economic shocks induced by the COVID-19 pandemic and the Ukraine war generated a window of opportunity for a strengthened pro-climate interest coalition to employ novel policy ideas and creative institutional governance to instigate the enactment of the IRA.

ALT The text on this graphic reads: Environmental Humanities Summer School, 6 to 26 July 2025. Explore why stories about our wild world matter and how we can build hope in the face of environmental crisis. Early-bird application ends: 1 March 2025, Closing date for all applications: 25 May 2025, Program fee: £3595. We offer a single 10% fee discount to applicants who meet at least one of the following criteria: apply before our early-bird deadline, apply for two summer school programs, attend one of our International Partnership or Study Abroad partner universities, apply as a group of 10 students from one university. Find out more: bristol.ac.uk/environmental-humanities-summer-school, University of Bristol. On the right half of the graphic is also an image of the University of Bristol and a QR code linking directly to the application website.

ALT The graphic show a red chair in high grass in the middle of a light forest. Underneath it says Master of Arts Environment and Society. Interdiciplinary, innovative, international. Deadline: 10 March 2025. Apply now.

ALT Militarism is a critical environmental issue. Our current climate crisis is largely fueled by the fossil fuels of war.

ALT Militarism is a critical environmental issue. Our current climate crisis is largely fueled by the fossil fuels of war; the US Pentagon is the single largest institutional carbon emitter on the planet. While we don’t consider militarism as a frame to read the history of art, literature, history, and ecology, how might that lens allow us to engage multi-scalar and multi-species levels of analysis and understanding?