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In Peru, Vultures Go High-Tech to Fight Garbage in Lima With GoPro

February 4, 2016
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Each bird—including Capitan Huggin, Capitana Aella, and Tiamat—is equipped with a solar-powered GPS device, and some have GoPro cameras attached to their chests. They’re then trained to track down garbage…

Museum as Play: Iteration, Interactivity, and the Human Experience

January 23, 2016
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In dh+lib, Digital Scholarship Librarian Thomas Padilla has a vivid conversation about career paths and museums of the future with Sebastian Chan, expert for digital and emerging media. Museums, as…

Susie O’Brien’s DEH Course | Digital Environmental Humanities

December 15, 2015
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In the latest blog post published by our friends at Digital Environmental Humanities Susie O'Brien, associate professor of English and cultural studies at McMaster Univesity, discusses the challenges of her…

What does technology do to our relationship with the environment? | Ensia

November 23, 2015
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Does technology enhance our relationship with nature or pull us further away?Smartphone users today can choose from thousands of nature-themed apps that allow them to keep track of what…

Cave Gave Game: Subterranean Space as Videogame Place | Electronic Book Review

November 23, 2015
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By Dennis Jerz and David Thomas at Electronic Book Review As fictive worlds, games depend on their use of space, much as narratives depend upon time. Reading game worlds through a spatial…

Can the digital revolution be environmentally sustainable?

November 23, 2015
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By Christopher Hodgson, for the Guardian. The digital revolution has brought technology in all aspects of our lives, making it almost unthinkable of a time without it. But this digital ecosystem…

At National Geographic: A New Push to Protect Wildlife

November 16, 2015
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By Bryan Christy, for National Geographic National Geographic's new Special Investigations Unit (SIU) just launched Wildlife Watch. The blog provides stories on the exploiters and defenders of the natural world…

Hi-tech agriculture is freeing the farmer from his fields

November 4, 2015
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From The Guardian: Robots to pick, drones to survey crops and satellites to drive tractors - experts predict a fully automated farm in five years. But is this what farmers…

Environmental safeguards ‘virtually non-existent’ in TTIP

November 3, 2015
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In the latest round of TTIP talks during October, the EU did not see any progress in introducing stronger language on environmental safeguards, despite significant public pressure. In January the…

Some thoughts on trees, documents and digital technology – Environmental History Resources

November 2, 2015
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Jan Oosthoek reports on his blog Environmental History Resources about the keynote talk given by Jennifer Gardner, curator of the Waite Arboretum, at the 9th conference of the Australian Forest…