Spark or Speak? – Media Responses to the California Wildfires, By Agnes Parshall

In 2025, Los Angeles, the ‘City of Angels’ in California fell victim to one of the worst wildfires on record. The four major fires: Palisades, Eaton, Hurst, and Auto, burned more than 12,000 homes, businesses, schools, and other structures. These devastations received unprecedented coverage, revealing the media’s reluctance to acknowledge climate change, and their bias Continue Reading

Nature as a Concept: Tracing ‘Nature’ Through Time, By Rohan Delamere

The entirety of humanity’s relationship with nature is not a topic which lends itself to a 450 word article, with a huge diversity in attitudes to topics like sustainability throughout human history. However, in looking back at how we have perceived nature throughout the years, we can gain insight into how we have treated nature Continue Reading

Worshipping the Nile: Environment and Religion in Ancient Egypt, By Robyn Costello

For Ancient people, worship of their physical environment was not uncommon; we have seen this in sources from Ancient Mesopotamia, whose main gods, Anu and Enlil, represented the sky and earth respectively, to the power of the material world in the Dreamtime of Aboriginal Culture. However, what seems to be truly unique is the way Continue Reading

How do ‘Western’ Attitudes to the Climate Emergency Contrast to Global Views?, By Nathan Tippett

In November 2024, countries at the COP29 summit in Azerbaijan agreed on a $200bn per year increase in climate financial assistance to developing countries across the world. Western nations say a ‘massive deal was struck’ and the UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer stated that the pledges made were ‘ambitious’ from both a UK and an Continue Reading

The Mythologisation of Natural Disasters in the Ancient Mediterranean Civilisations, By Laura Wilkinson

The myths and legends of Ancient Greeks and Romans are more than mere stories of supernatural events. They reflect the collective consciousness of societies deeply connected with their natural environment. The Greeks and Romans viewed the gods and divinities which populated their myths as anthropomorphised representations of natural forces, and throughout ancient literature they had Continue Reading