Loss is inevitable, but the formalised language of poetry may help us endure it.
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The documentary explains how the English and Welsh culture of access differs from that of close neighbours like Scotland.
The Conversation invites academics across the UK and Ireland to write a poem inspired by climate change research.
Climate science is the anti-myth. Researchers have long noted that the human brain struggles with psychologically distant threats.
Attenborough has influenced everything from conservation and documentary production to the communication of the biggest story of all – climate change.
These poems span over 200 years and a range of emotions, from sorrow, to fear and hope.
Long before climate science named the crisis, women across the world were registering these shifts in another language – through song.
Visions of environmental disaster are shaping world literature.
Hoppers arrives 17 years after Wall-E, Pixar’s last overtly environmentally themed film.
Musicians played an enormous plastic bottle marimba, a wall of tuned glass bottles, discarded flower pots, cooking pans and a washing machine drum.
People who have lived in a place for decades hold memories that city planners cannot see.
If flights dominate emissions, then the biggest wins won’t come from menus or outfits.
Art projects can help unlock more enthusiasm from citizens for deposit return schemes, reuse pilots or new recycling sorting rules.
Young people are often overlooked in discussions about climate crisis. And yet they stand to be most profoundly affected by it.
The ocean is warming as the upper atmosphere is cooling – both as a result of excessive greenhouse gas emissions.
London’s fog literally fogged photographs with the yellowish hue of the capital’s notorious ‘pea-soupers’.
The connection between place and writing shapes reasoning and can change how people think about climate issues.
How a forest soundscape installation aims to help people make sense of forests and climate through listening, not screens.
From dinosaur extinctions to a Himalyan memoir, climate science and creative writing experts review some of the best new and upcoming titles to look out for in 2026.
New Weird fiction imagines worlds where humans are no longer in control.
Top contributors
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Professor of Creative Pedagogies, Edinburgh Napier University
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Professor of Sustainable Practice, University of Southampton
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Professor of scriptwriting and playwright, University of East Anglia
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Reader in English, City St George's, University of London
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Reader in Applied Theatre and Puppetry, University of Portsmouth
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Head of Department, Science and Technology Studies, UCL
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Professor, English and the Institute for the Comparative Study of Literature, Art, and Culture; Academic Director, Re.Climate: Centre for Climate Communication and Public Engagement, Carleton University
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Professor of Atmospheric Science, University of Leeds
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Regius Professor of Meteorology and Climate Science, University of Reading
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Reader in Cultural Theory in the School of Architecture and Visual Arts, University of East London
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PhD Candidate in Irish literature, University of Limerick
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Creative Lead, We Are the Possible programme, University of Exeter
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Professor of Humanitarianism and Social Inclusion, UCL
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Senior Fellow in Management Practice, University of Oxford
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Teaching Associate, Faculty of English, University of Cambridge