By Corinne PurtillMarch 16, 2018 link to article also here. Let’s say the situation at work is not good. The project (or product, or re-org, or whatever) has launched, and the best you can say is that things aren’t going as planned. At all. It’s a disaster, though the best word for it is the one you drop over drinks with your team and when … Continue reading Quartz: The difference between a snafu, a shitshow, and a clusterfuck

By Dougal ShawBBC Stories 29 January 2019 Share this with Facebook Share this with Messenger Share this with Twitter Share this with Email Share Anna Bergstrom had a dilemma. She loved the glitzy world of high fashion, but had also come to feel that it was unsustainable and bad for the planet. She’s now found peace of mind by running a stylish shopping mall in … Continue reading BBC: ‘Welcome to my high-fashion, trash shopping mall’– its in Sweden!

Still from Dr. Strangelove, Kubrick, 1964 Global warming has heated the oceans by the equivalent of one atomic bomb explosion per second for the past 150 years, according to analysis of new research. More than 90% of the heat trapped by humanity’s greenhouse gas emissions has been absorbed by the seas, with just a few per cent heating the air, land and ice caps respectively. … Continue reading Guardian: Global warming of oceans equivalent to an atomic bomb per second

The Gulf of Maine’s rapidly warming waters draws in larger numbers of Kemp’s ridley turtles, enticing them to stay longer Josh Wood in Quincy, Massachusetts Wed 26 Dec 2018 01.00 ESTLast modified on Wed 26 Dec 2018 01.02 EST Shares 131  Staff at the Turtle hospital in the Florida Keys work to intubate a cold-stunned Kemp’s ridley turtle flown in from Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Photograph: Handout/Reuters At the New England … Continue reading Guardian: ‘It’s warm water now’: climate change strands sea turtles on Cape Cod shores

Thrill-seeking tourists are putting themselves in danger and hampering emergency services by heading towards volcanoes when they erupt. A report from the Royal Geographical Society warns of the growing risks caused by “volcano tourism”. Emergency authorities in countries such as Iceland now have to contend with the arrival of tourists who rush there to get close to an exploding volcano. The study says such tourists … Continue reading BBC: Warning against ‘volcano tourism’ risks

Image: PTL, inside the diorama of the Biologiska Museet, Stockholm. For all news on the upcoming Nordic Hazardlands workshop and talkshop at Färgfabriken see this tab. Continue reading New! Nordic Hazardlands no. 2

By Brooke Jarvis Nov. 27, 2018980 Sune Boye Riis was on a bike ride with his youngest son, enjoying the sun slanting over the fields and woodlands near their home north of Copenhagen, when it suddenly occurred to him that something about the experience was amiss. Specifically, something was missing. It was summer. He was out in the country, moving fast. But strangely, he wasn’t … Continue reading NYTimes Magazine: The Insect Apocalypse Is Here

The crack appeared a few years ago, and has been creeping towards the town of Kiruna ever since. “The mines are underneath us,” says Göran Cars. It’s early afternoon but the sun is already setting behind the mountain, colouring the clouds and outlining the town’s most prominent feature: two huge smokestacks. “And you can see the direction of the cracks – coming from the mine, … Continue reading The Observer: Will I have existed?

Listen It’s finally here again. Curated by Joa Ljungberg and Santiago Mostyn, the 2018 edition of The Moderna Exhibition presents the work of nearly forty artists connected to the Swedish art scene, offering both sober and intimate reflections on Swedish society today, on a natural world that is no longer what it once was, and a future that appears to have already begun. The Moderna … Continue reading Moderna Museet: With the Future Behind Us.

By Diego Arguedas Ortiz 19 November 2018 We’ve all seen how powerful images can make abstract crises feel concrete. Think of the photographs of a Chinese man blocking a column of tanks a day after the Tiananmen Square massacre, a naked Vietnamese girl fleeing from napalm in 1972 or of 7-year-old Amal Hussain wasting away from hunger in Yemen. When done well, photographs help people … Continue reading BBC: One Simple Reason we aren’t acting faster on climate change.