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Reflections and insights connecting course concepts to real-world experience.

Climate Change as a Circulation Problem

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Climate Change as a Circulation Problem

Evidence, Risk, Attribution, Models, and Justice Climate change is best understood not as a single environmental problem, but as a disruption of interconnected circulatory systems of energy, carbon, water, nutrients, organisms, and people. Evidence from multiple independent observations demonstrates that anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions have created a persistent Earth energy

Storm Lines and Story Lines: Learning Relational Resilience from Haida Gwaii

Storm Lines and Story Lines: Learning Relational Resilience from Haida Gwaii

A reflection on Indigenous governance, COP30, relational knowledge, and teaching school kids in the Bergisches Land Resilience comes from relationship. This week I kept circling back to three moments that, strangely, spoke to each other, even though they happened in completely different contexts. • Haida Gwaii preparing for storm surge and

Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate

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Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate

Summary of SPM.A, SPM.B, and SPM.C from the IPCC Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate as part of our Topic 3 module assignment The Summary for Policymakers of the IPCC Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate presents

Translating Vulnerability

Restorative Focus

Translating Vulnerability

What Language Teaches Us About Resilience open - wound - open - wound - open wound - open - wound- open - wound Reading Resilience and Vulnerability: Complementary or Conflicting Concepts? (Miller et al., 2010) was both fascinating and, honestly, difficult for me. Not because the article was too complex,

At the Speed of the Earth

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At the Speed of the Earth

Our topic this fortnight in the Climate change and environmental hazards module has been vulnerability, resilience, and adaptation in relation to climate change. (And yes, I’ve just begun hearing the word fortnight all the time, one of those charming reminders that I’m back in the world of British

Row of wooden houses on stilts above the exposed shoreline in Homer, Alaska.

Crossing Thresholds

Investigating Climate Change in the News and on Social Media – October 2025 This week I explored three recent pieces that reflect different facets of our changing planet, from the chemistry of the ocean to bird migration patterns and the rising force of storms. 1. Ocean Acidification - Crossing the Boundary

Module Reflections

Welcome to Snowline Rising

Snowline Rising is a reflective space created for my module Climate Change and Environmental Hazards at the University of London. This blog gathers my observations, connections, and moments of learning along the way. The title refers to one of the clearest signs of a warming world: the rising snowline. When