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The John Burroughs Association selected Sharman Apt Russell for her book Diary of a Citizen Scientist: Chasing Tiger Beetles and Other New Ways of Engaging the World, published by Oregon State University Press.

In the exploding world of citizen science, hundreds of thousands of volunteers are monitoring climate change, tracking bird migration, finding stardust for NASA, and excavating mastodons. The sheer number of citizen scientists, combined with new technology, has begun to shape how research is conducted. Non-professionals become acknowledged experts: dentists turn into astronomers and ...

Longtime ASLE members John Calderazzo and SueEllen Campbell are retiring from Colorado State University, and CSU is establishing a Words for the Earth Award in their honor.

This award will support efforts by faculty, graduate and undergraduate students, and staff whose work addresses the pressing need to illuminate and protect the natural world and employs the skills and insights of literature and expression.

If you would like to contribute, give online at https://advancing.colostate.edu/ENGLISH, or mail a check payable to the Colorado State University Foundation (write ...

ASLE Member Cameron Conaway has written an article on pollution in India’s Ganges River that is published in Newsweek.  The piece was submitted for an American Society of Magazine Editor‘s award, for its ability to read like a novel but be packed with research. The story came to be thanks to a grant from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting.

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Conaway was also recently awarded a Daniel Pearl Investigative Journalism Fellowship from Moment Magazine.  He will be covering the genocidal conditions faced ...

ASLE member Uma Jayaraman has made a video of a performance that she also gave at the 2015 ASLE Conference as part of the panel entitled “Resistances and Emergences.” “The Pond in the Park” is set in present day Singapore, and focuses on human estrangement from Nature. This eco-spiritual tale is narrated in the amalgamated styles of Dastaan and Kathakaalakshebam, two ancient forms of popular storytelling in South Asian cultures. Jayaraman is a creative writer and artist, who has scripted and directed six ...

Click to peruse this Huffington Post piece about the rise in cli-fi literature and environmental humanities courses being taught at the University of Oregon, UC Santa Barbara, and elsewhere. Original article reprinted below.

Universities are getting tough on environmental protection as they tackle challenges, through architecture, literature, hard science, and finance, bringing the new genre of climate-change fiction to life.

Students and professors worldwide are pushing the frontier of climate change research farther than ever this summer exhibiting their solar habitats at the Solar Decathalon, ...

Click to listen to Stephanie LeMenager, professor of English at the University of Oregon, who was interviewed on the CBC radio program The Current with Anna Maria Tremonti about the role of the arts and humanities in climate change response. Podcast and summary summary reposted below.

Find out how “The Day After Tomorrow” and other apocalyptic fiction can help with the hard reality of climate change in Checking-In today. And when we aired some of Dennis Saddleman’s gripping poem “Monster” the reaction was overwhelming, ...

Click to read Richard Pérez-Peña’s article in the New York Times, “College Classes Use Arts to Brace for Climate Change” featuring professor Stephanie LeManager’s “The Cultures of Climate Change” class at the University of Oregon. Original article reprinted below.

EUGENE, Ore. — University courses on global warming have become common, and Prof. Stephanie LeMenager’s new class here at the University of Oregon has all the expected, alarming elements: rising oceans, displaced populations, political conflict, endangered animals.

The goal of this class, however, is not to ...