Category: Nature & Natural Resources
Ideas and stories that show how people understand, value and struggle over nature and natural resources.
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Strange Natures: The pale glade
In this mythical tale by Callum Aitken, a storyteller undergoes a transformative experience.
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Strange Natures: Singing bullfrogs of Sanjay Van
A story about a strange encounter with singing frogs in a South Delhi forest, and the possibility of communication between species.
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Strange Natures: Volatile ecologies and shifting islands
Photo story by Sampurna Das about the shifting river islands of eastern India.
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Strange Natures: The haunted floodplains of San Felipe
A series of artworks by Jorge Losoya visualise how a community is haunted by past and future floods.
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Weird seas of the climate crisis – birds as eerie revelation
Closely observing strange patterns in bird behaviour, Andrew Whitehouse finds hints of the unsettled climate.
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Strange Natures: Scarification
A short story by Michael Reeks, responding to the theme of Strange Natures.
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MINERIA: An animation about mining, energy and justice
Climate change is leading to changing demand for minerals for renewable energy storage, with impacts for people and land in Latin America.
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Strange Natures: Compost
A short series of drawings by Marion Bessol in response to the theme of ‘Strange Natures’.
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Strange Natures: Podcast – Folk horror and English commons
Andy Thatcher discusses how he uses film to appreciate English commons, and the uses of folk horror, the ‘weird’ and the ‘eerie’ in exploring contested histories.
