Homage to Edward Steichen who died on this day fifty years ago.
Born in Bivange, Luxembourg on 27 March 1897, the young Edward emigrated to the US with his parents when he was 18. His was a long, varied & rich artistic career: though mainly known...
Author: Pierre Joris
Less predictable rainfall important for Maya decline
Reduced predictability of seasonal rainfall might have played an important role in the disintegration of Classic Maya societies about 1100 years ago. That is the result of a new study of the Potsdam Institute...
Overshooting climate targets could significantly increase risk for tipping cascades
Press release by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) 12/22/2022 Temporarily overshooting the climate targets of 1.5-2 degrees Celsius could increase the tipping risk of several Earth system elements by more than...
10 MustDos from Biodiversity Science
from Leibniz Research Network Biodiversity: We are calling for policymakers worldwide to take in the scientific knowledge synthesized in the 10 Must Knows from Biodiversity Science (10MustKnows) to inform much needed policies. At the...
Risk of passing multiple climate tipping points escalates above 1.5°C global warming
Joint press release by the University of Exeter, Stockholm Resilience Centre, Future Earth and Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) 09/09/2022 Multiple climate tipping points could be triggered if global temperature rises beyond...
Extreme temperatures fuel online hate speech
Relationship between temperature and hate tweets across five climatic zones in the USA Press release by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) 09/08/2022 Online Hate speech increases when daily maximum temperatures are...
Timber! or: Living in timber cities could avoid emissions…
(Photo by Sarah Worth ) Press release by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) 08/30/2022 Living in timber cities could avoid emissions – without using farmland for wood production Transition to timber...
Considering catastrophe: high-impact, low-probability climate scenarios “dangerously underexplored”
08/02/2022 Press release by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) Researchers call for a new “Climate Endgame” agenda and say far too little work has gone into understanding the mechanisms by which...
How to avoid eating the world:
From degrowth to a sustainable food system transformation Press release by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) 05/16/2022 • To make our food system more sustainable, curbing growth or shifting incomes alone...
Forests, Food, Pandemics and the Extinction of Species:
Biodiversity Hotspots Research network publishes “10 Must Knows” on biodiversity Press Release by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research 03/25/2022 “10 Must Knows from Biodiversity Science”, ranging from climate stress for forests to...
Poasis II: Selected Poems 2000-2024
“Todesguge/Deathfugue”
“Interglacial Narrows (Poems 1915-2021)”
“Always the Many, Never the One: Conversations In-between, with Florent Toniello”
“Conversations in the Pyrenees”
“A Voice Full of Cities: The Collected Essays of Robert Kelly.” Edited by Pierre Joris & Peter Cockelbergh
“An American Suite” (Poems) —Inpatient Press
“Arabia (not so) Deserta” : Essays on Maghrebi & Mashreqi Writing & Culture
“Barzakh” (Poems 2000-2012)
“Fox-trails, -tales & -trots”
“The Agony of I.B.” — A play. Editions PHI & TNL 2016
“The Book of U / Le livre des cormorans”
“Memory Rose Into Threshold Speech: The Collected Earlier Poetry of Paul Celan”
“Paul Celan, Microliths They Are, Little Stones”
“Paul Celan: Breathturn into Timestead-The Collected Later Poetry.” Translated & with commentary by Pierre Joris. Farrar, Straus & Giroux