In 2019, hundreds gathered in Switzerland to mourn the loss of the Pizol glacier, holding a funeral to mark its disappearance after centuries of existence. Once a massive body of ice, it had been ...
(CNN) — Hundreds gathered to say goodbye when 700-year-old Pizol died. The funeral in Switzerland in 2019 was solemn. Mourners wore black; flowers were laid; a priest spoke. It was a symbolic moment: ...
A poignant recounting of the tangled and unnatural histories of extinction and empire, and how extinction is not necessarily inevitable but instead, is a political choice. One of the most famous and ...