This series closes with research including the work of Anna Lucia Goense, who reveals like Ada Lovelace before her, the kinship between code and weaving.

This edition’s pick is for those seeking a living, evidence-based map of what civil society actually knows, and is saying, about climate.

This is Understories’ Reading List, a fortnightly email for people who bridge climate science, narrative, and action. Each edition starts with findings worth keeping, and closes with a moment of beauty to carry forward.

Taking a step aside this week, with a link to wander, five Library entries and queer aerial embroider by Victoria Richards.

I'm writing this as France is coming out of the Gironde fires — 220,000 people evacuated, along with the trees and animals that couldn't evacuate themselves. 

This one comes as climate communication feels more urgent — and more contested — than ever.

The link between climate and health has rarely been this legible. Neither has the case for solidarity, and for the kind of local action that checks in on isolated people.

The next decade is decisive for climate action — and how we communicate will determine whether we succeed.