Hard Water
A poet-anthropologist honors World Poetry Day with a piece that imagines alchemizing the suffering and devastation of Russia’s war on Ukraine.
Water
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Surfing in Color
A poet-anthropologist witnesses people of the African diaspora “riding waves across the surfable globe.”
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Adapt or Abandon? Hard Choices in the Himalayas
Anthropologists are documenting how global warming is transforming Asia’s water tower and threatening the livelihoods of farmers and herders.
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What Do Goats and Wars Have to Do With Glacier Loss?
In the Indian Himalayas, elders see a link between the erosion of community and the erosion of ice.
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And You Watch as We Make Woodwater Again
SAPIENS poet-in-residence Justin D. Wright speaks to the elemental craft of Black survival, photosynthesis, and sweet tea making in an anti-Black racist society.
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How to Survive Climate Change in the India-Bangladesh Borderlands
As erosion and rising waters threaten the Sundarbans, an anthropologist advocates for new, bottom-up approaches to living in a changing landscape.