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A Q&A with Elementa Associate Editor River Shen

Sep 01 2022
"With its richness of civilizations, the Pan-Pacific realm has been experiencing especially severe environmental pollution and ecological crisis, associated with swift regional economic development over past decades."
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Rethinking mineral extraction in the Anthropocene

May 06 2022
By Sebastián Ureta & Patricio Flores, co-authors of Worlds of Gray and Green: Mineral Extraction as Ecological Practice“We are walking, talking minerals” —V. I. Vernadsky[1]Mineral extraction has a bad reputation nowadays. Decades of relentless extraction of minerals throughout the world
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In the Wake of Hurricane Dorian

Sep 25 2019
by Amelia Moore, author of Destination Anthropocene: Science and Tourism in the BahamasAs we all know by now, Hurricane Dorian spun out of the Atlantic in early September and squarely hit the Bahamian islands of Abaco and Grand Bahama, leaving an unfolding disaster in its wake. Hurricanes a
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