In this paper we introduce the concept of ambient vulnerability. Ambience concerns the
overlapping and shifting material forms that constitute a person's surroundings–including …

This article assays geographical research into nuclear cultures, and cognate conversations
in atomic heritage, toxic waste studies, and memory and landscape studies, as one way to …

This Perspective highlights the lingering consequences of nuclear disasters by examining
the risks posed by wildfires that rerelease radioactive fallout originally deposited into the …

Air pollution creates significant challenges, particularly in countries undergoing rapid
industrialization and urbanization. Wind, a strong agency in moving polluting to and away …

This chapter examines how the unfolding, unequal relationship between humans and fire
breaks down the perceived dominance of human agency in the Anthropocene. Humans …

Nuclear waste epitomizes the Anthropocene. Scientific discovery of nuclear fission in the
1930s ushered in the atomic age. The onset of nuclear weapons and nuclear energy …