OPINION
Multiple sources over several decades have described the Sydvaranger iron mine’s waste products, most of which end up in a nearby fjord, as ‘clean sand,’ a definition it increasingly doesn’t fit. So why does it keep resurfacing?
HISTORY
Students of African history and anticolonial resistance found themselves fighting their own university after it silently cancelled their course and fired their supervisor.
EXTRACTIVE INDUSTRIES
Norway’s Environment Directorate said existing fjord disposal permits cover four million tonnes per year of finely ground rock and process chemicals, which the CEO of a company set to acquire the mine described as “inert.”
E-WASTE
The Netherlands-based repairable phone maker said backward compatibility is “something we definitely want to improve on in future models.”
EDITORIAL
Giving statements on the record is the entire point of a press office.
EXTRACTIVE INDUSTRIES
3D models of the planned underwater waste deposit, transposed over London, cover an area from Farringdon to Waterloo.
EXTRACTIVE INDUSTRIES
A German public prosecutor said any investigation would have been restricted by the need for co-operation from Russian authorities.
MUSIC
The acclaimed sound artist talks theatre, field recording, and ecological metaphysics.
SURVEILLANCE TECH
Local authorities in Cambridge operate at least 73 Hikvision and Dahua surveillance cameras, many more than previously reported.
SURVEILLANCE TECH
Big Brother Watch called the “vast quantity” of the county’s surveillance devices “deeply alarming.”
SURVEILLANCE TECH
Hikvision CCTV cameras are located through Cambridge city centre. The company has long been criticised by MPs and campaigners on security and human rights grounds, and senior government ministers want its cameras banned from the UK.
CLIMATE
One year on from some of London’s most severe surface flooding, comparative photography can help us trace the cycle of shock, cleanup, and forgetting that follows environmental disasters.
OPINION
An attitude of ‘duty’ to undertake classical music education from a standpoint of ‘expertise’ arguably demonstrates paternalism under the guise of community care.
OPINION
When you describe the sound of protest as “noise” you deny its democratic function—and admit how much that bothers you.
FIELD RECORDING
Street recordings from the UK’s first coronavirus lockdown tell a tale of quietness, crisis, and the presence of absence.
FIELD RECORDING
A bog’s curious, ordinary, delicately explosive sounds belong in our narratives of climate crisis just as much as landscapes of epic disaster.
Getting to know a place takes time, even with methods like a randomised sound survey. It also takes the courage to throw away your map.
BOOK REVIEW
David George Haskell’s ‘Sounds Wild and Broken (2022) seeks to establish sound as a new vital sign for the environment. It takes on more than it bargained for.
