2015: Hottest Year in Recorded History

Three years ago, I posted an article here that highlighted 2012 as the hottest year recorded in the United States. … More

“Amazonia in the Anthropocene” Coming out in May

My first book Amazonia in the Anthropocene: People, Soils, Plants, Forests will be published this May with the University of … More

2014 Hottest Year on Record

The evidence on global climate change continues to mount. Both NASA and NOAA have declared 2014 the hottest year in … More

UC-Santa Barbara IHC Talk: Into the Bowels of the Anthropocene

UC-Santa Barbara IHC talk: Problems with the Anthropocene

Problems with the Anthropocene: A View from Rural Amazonia

Into the Bowels of the Anthropocene

Must the Anthropocene be a “Manthropocene”?

Kate Raworth wrote a piece for the Guardian that calls attention to the extreme gender bias of the Anthropocene Working Group, … More

The Anthropocene: A View from the Humanities

This year, the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center at University of California-Santa Barbara is hosting a seminar series on the Anthropocene. Among … More

Ethnobiology and the Anthropocene: A View from Amazonia

In this presentation from the 2014 Society of Ethnobiology Annual Conference, I draw from my ethnobiological research in rural Amazonia … More