Join Protecting Oceania @ 2024 FestPAC! 📢 #savethedate June 10-12, 2024 @ Hawaiʻi Convention Center in Waikīkī, HI🌊📍.

Calling all Pasifika thinkers and activists📢. Student workers needed, stipend provided. Email [email protected] for details

#ProtectingOceania #FestPAC2024

Delighted to share a new project that Katerina Teaiwa🔥🚣🏿🌊 and I have been working on for the past year - a new six-volume history of Oceania (Australia and the Pacific) - 60,000 years: culturalhistoryofoceania.blog

Biden admin vows to restore 8M acres of wetlands ift.tt/ReoglVP

Indigenous Advocates at the UN Say green transition is neither clean nor just: “It’s critical that people understand that the transition is anything but just & anything but equitable,” said Maureen Penjueli, Indigenous iTaukei from Fiji. by Anita Hofschneider grist.org/global-indigen…

Great to see Tongan-Australian artist Latai Taumoepeau at the Venice Biennale with her work 'Re-stor(y)ing Oceania', a new choral work focused on Pacific resistance to deep sea mining.

See here: e-flux.com/announcements/…

SF Climate Week Screening of INUNDATION
DISTRICT April 22 6pm Swissnex in San Francisco . Directed by David Abel, the film explores how one city ignored climate threats, spending billions building a new waterfront district —at sea level, on landfill. lu.ma/ffamzux1

TODAY! 2 pm! Thrilled to share Sea Change on the panel 'Human vs. Nature: Conflict with the Natural World' alongside andrea lankford & Will Cockrell, moderated by Thomas Curwen Thomas Curwen LA Times Festival of Books
University of California Press Tickets: tixr.com/groups/latimes…

Are we living in the Anthropocene? My take on the 'epic row' over a new epoch: newyorker.com/news/the-weeke…

Excited to to be back at LA Times Festival of Books Saturday with this powerhouse panel Rosanna Xia Jeff Goodell Dan Egan Sammy Roth Please join us!

If you’ll be at the L.A. Times Festival of Books on the USC campus today, come say hi! I’m talking climate reporting with Rosanna Xia & Russ Mitchell at 11:45am, then moderating a panel with a group of climate authors at 3:30pm.

Follow LA Times Festival of Books for details!

HeadsUp: This Sat., 4/20, the SF Lowrider Council will pay tribute to Selena with a lowrider cruise in the Mission starting at 3:30pm.
➡️The 14, 14R, 27, 48, 49, & 67 will have reroutes.
➡️For service details: sfmta.com/travel-updates…

Please check out our new YouTube channel. It has recordings of the Tracing the Contours of Caribbean Geography talk series-- with more content to come. youtube.com/@CaribbeanGeog…

Huge news: The Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation has become the first federally recognized tribe to get a portion of their land back in Illinois. Illinois now has tribal lands.

One in ten residents of China’s coastal cities could be living below sea level within a century, as a result of land subsidence and climate change go.nature.com/3QwLArt

One in ten residents of China’s coastal cities could be living below sea level within a century, as a result of land subsidence and climate change, according to a paper published in Science. My latest for @nature. nature.com/articles/d4158…

Sunday! So looking forward to sharing Sea Change on this panel alongside andrea lankford & Will Cockrell, moderated by Thomas Curwen Thomas Curwen LA Times Festival of Books University of California Press $6 for reserved tickets here: tixr.com/groups/latimes…

Rising temperatures, storms, inflation, collapsing currencies, cholera.

Now the worst drought in 40 years.

With Manuela Andreoni

nytimes.com/2024/04/18/cli…

Not Just Red Hill: Hundreds Of Military Fuel Depots Threaten Environment And Public Health: A new federal report, ordered after the Red Hill crisis, uncovered oversight weaknesses at hundreds of the military's fuel storage sites. dlvr.it/T5dmsr #HInews

A library for bike riders brings 250 e-bikes to South Los Angeles latimes.com/california/sto…

US lawmakers Elizabeth Warren & Ro Khanna seek to ban trade in water rights. Bill would stop private investors, including hedge funds, farmers and municipalities, from profiting off water scarcity by Maanvi Singh theguardian.com/environment/20…