Climate change is conspicuously absent from most realist, literary fiction set in the present day. Hurricanes, wildfires, floods, droughts and other natural disasters are part of our daily lives, yet they’re absent, save for brief mentions of a news clip for a college protest from much of our... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2025-03-04 12:00:00 UTC ]
The Nevada court defeat means Lachlan Murdoch’s siblings could have a much greater say in the company’s future - with significant ramifications As the Black Summer bushfires ravaged Australia, coverage of the disaster in the News Corp publications sparked a rare public airing of the divisions... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2024-12-13 14:00:50 UTC ]
Through reportage, memoir, and critique, authors deliver firsthand accounts of a planet in crisis. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-11-22 05:00:00 UTC ]
"After the water receded and the clean up began, many writers began to process what they experienced through writing, while others couldn’t write at all." Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2024-11-20 11:30:00 UTC ]
Urano will publish two English-language books by bestselling Venezuelan author Nacarid Portal, Little, Brown takes a heartbreaking book that weaves a paleoclimatologist’s personal loss with climate change, and more. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-11-08 05:00:00 UTC ]
Lack of time, difficulties with scientific rigour, an uninterested public … television meteorologists open up about why they’re so quiet about the reasons for extreme conditionsWhy do TV and radio forecasts rarely contextualise extreme weather events in terms of the climate crisis? After all,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2024-10-25 14:00:08 UTC ]
I’ve been reading from outside of Phoenix, where there have been over 120 days of 100 degree temperatures as summer comes to a close. With Hurricane Helene devastating the Southeast and war spreading in the Middle East, the uncertainty about our collective futures—whether it is from climate... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2024-10-11 11:05:00 UTC ]
Whether it’s heat waves, wildfires, or floods, news of weather events intensified by climate change is hard to miss. And the publishing industry has been paying attention. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-08-02 04:00:00 UTC ]
Whether it’s heat waves, wildfires, or floods, news of weather events intensified by climate change is hard to miss. And the publishing industry has been paying attention. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-08-02 04:00:00 UTC ]
This Earth Day, settle into "A Fire So Wild," Sarah Ruiz-Grossman's debut novel about the societal impacts of climate change. Continue reading >> [ Source: HuffPost | 2024-04-05 09:45:24 UTC ]
Encompassing a wide range of genres from historical fiction to fantasy to poetry to investigative journalism to memoir, this exciting abundance of books published in 2023 by emerging and acclaimed Native writers speak to the rich diversity of the Indigenous experience. From meditations on the... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2023-10-09 11:00:00 UTC ]
Forthcoming titles from religion and spirituality publishers aim to get families talking about right-to-life messaging, sex trafficking, climate change, houselessness, gender roles, and more. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-09-22 04:00:00 UTC ]
Spiritual perspectives on climate change, sustainable living, and food insecurity are drawing attention from religion publishers. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-05-19 04:00:00 UTC ]
Spiritual perspectives on climate change, sustainable living, and food insecurity are drawing attention from religion publishers. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-05-19 04:00:00 UTC ]
Publishing is facing its severest set of challenges in a generation, experts noted at this year's AAP annual meeting: book bans, the lack of diversity, climate change, and “unrelenting” challenges to copyright. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-05-09 04:00:00 UTC ]
Professional seaweed harvester and marine biologist Amanda Swinimer has published a children’s book highlighting how important seaweed is for nutrition and for protecting the planet against climate change. Continue reading >> [ Source: CBC | 2023-05-05 04:24:48 UTC ]
The central thesis of Andreas Malm’s manifesto How to Blow Up a Pipeline: Learning to Fight in a World on Fire is that peaceful protests have proven themselves ineffective in stopping the widespread annihilation of the earth and its inhabitants by climate change. The book, published by Verso... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2023-04-07 08:53:26 UTC ]
Netflix is adding two more releases to its excellent library of games. The streaming giant announced Monday it recently secured exclusive mobile rights to Dust & Neon and Highwater, two upcoming titles from indie publisher Rogue Games. Of the two, the former will arrive first when it hits... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2023-02-06 18:00:28 UTC ]
Sixty years ago, the United States and the Soviet Union led the world in climate change science then spent decades ignoring or denying the science they had pioneered, two books show. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2022-05-27 16:18:47 UTC ]
Kim Stanley Robinson, one of the most acclaimed living science fiction writers, is done with deep space narratives. His focus now is on solving real problems — like climate change. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2022-05-11 09:00:20 UTC ]