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An evolving set of words chosen by contributors to reflect their experiences of the climate crisis.

clearing,

light rain,

fish,

siblinghood,

siblings,

potencia,

cambio,

flujo,

tangible-intangible,

planetary,

vast,

rural,

sudden,

ubiquitous,

critical,

nice,

depressing,

bearable,

less,

becoming,

#NOKINGS,

in China,

in bubbles,

water,

bodies,

social relations,

brink,

the,

on,

warming up,

worrisome,

strange,

atypical,

light breeze,

blue sky,

no Kings,

unseasonable,

slow violence,

unsettled,

monsoonal,

shared,

monsoon,

protesting,

orange monarch,

charred,

everywhere,

aggression,

opportunistic,

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Static,

haunting,

un/graspable,

sensitive,

suspense,

expectation,

endings,

Fresh,

Cool,

connected,

complex,

crucial,

decommissioning,

data drop outs,

anomaly,

Gusting,

Thermic,

demonic,

witchy,

Saharan Dust,

slow-burn,

rebuilding,

Political,

adupt,

the first heat wave,

forecast,

changeable,

Fascinating,

Stunning,

Unique,

ever-changing,

restoration,

on my mind,

indistinguishable,

uncertain,

drizzle,

extraordinary,

fragile,

precious,

29.84Inhg,

edges,

glitchy,

29.75Inhg,

Magnetic,

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29.80 falling,

75F,

overcast,

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sun-baked,

parched,

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geological ghosts,

sunflowers,

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appearances,

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historic,

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erasure,

fluid,

us,

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scrambled,

heavy,

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adapting,

resilient,

taken for granted,

infinite,

Woman,

Definitions,

Enough,

politcal,

Trans rights now,

Polluters must Pay,

chaotic,

A transition,

A threshold,

A temporality,

Centrifugal,

Durational,

Rooted,

clouds,

of,

Lot,

hopeful,

sunny,

unseasonably warm,

INCREDIBLE,

VITAL,

ESSENTIALS,

Drizzling,

fluctuating,

temperate,

warming,

Unruly,

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debris,

canceled,

Bulbs blooming,

Peaceful,

honest,

climate whiplash,

changing,

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high pressure,

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early flowering,

misty,

early,

warmth,

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physical,

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red warning,

un-weather,

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ashen,

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angry,

confused,

failing,

moldering,

bone-chilling,

damp,

LA,

teleconnections,

snow,

Smoke,

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edging,

Santa Ana winds,

Palisades fire,

uncontained,

Evacuate,

Windstorm,

Fire weather,

invisible updrafts,

vultures soaring,

quiet,

Tract housing,

interference,

adaptation,

suspicion,

Sunken sailboats,

Idalia,

PM-2.5,

air quality alert,

inversion layer,

Future,

Unexpected,

Contrails,

new beginnings,

Polar vortex,

1.5°C,

chilling effect,

mossy,

sudden change,

rising,

cyclical,

loss,

fire,

climate reality,

huge,

bright,

underground,

hum of seeds,

Darragh,

elemental,

worms,

mulch,

conspiratorial,

passion,

Nebel,

brewing,

clamour,

forgery,

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repurposing,

concrete,

civil war,

common ground,

dialogue,

questions,

gloom,

weather,

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grey,

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wind,

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Flat earth,

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indoor sunshine,

displaced,

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temperature rising,

decay,

dirt,

soil,

what you know,

Resist,

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Collective action,

Silver linings,

Searching,

harvesting,

Policy,

Climate denial,

Democracy,

Fossil record,

Geologic time,

Anthropocene,

betting on the future,

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risky business,

hope,

reality,

flooding,

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Crisis,

slowing current,

Atlantic cooling,

Amoc,

frustration,

anticipation,

troubling,

Troubled,

everything,

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remote,

ten foot surge,

1000 year storm,

warming Gulf,

Milton,

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harvest,

mushrooms,

Palestine,

given names,

the wind singing,

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people,

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moist,

fair,

local,

light,

hotter,

learn,

radiate,

weather balloon,

upside down,

floods,

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Medium Temperature,

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immeasurable,

story,

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lichenous,

trans-scalar,

saturated,

fractal,

multi-scalar,

circulated,

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emitted,

warning,

sensuous,

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rainy,

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memory,

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2025-06-09 23:21:00

Seattle, United States

2025-06-09 23:06:00

Cyprus Amateur Radio Society

Nicosia , Cyprus

2025-06-09 23:00:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-06-09 22:55:00

Gilboa, New York, United States

2025-06-09 22:15:00

Cosmos Astronomy Club MIT WPU

2025-06-09 21:19:59

Bathgate, West Lothian, UK

2025-06-09 21:16:00

Iterable pueyrredon

Cordoba , Argentina

2025-06-09 20:16:00

Tsonami Arte Sonoro

Valparaiso, Chile

2025-06-09 18:56:22

Bathgate, West Lothian, UK

2025-06-09 11:26:27

Bathgate, West Lothian, UK

2025-06-09 11:08:00

Iterable pueyrredon

Cordoba , Argentina

2025-06-09 10:43:00

Oppressive Heat Project

Phnom Penh, Cambodia

2025-06-09 09:44:00

Mauritius, Mauritius

2025-06-09 09:12:00

Goownown Growers The Seaweed Institute

CAST, Helston, Cornwall, United Kingdom

2025-06-09 09:09:00

Arbroath, Scotland

2025-06-09 09:08:33

Bathgate, West Lothian, UK

2025-06-09 08:30:05

Lajosmizse, Hungary

Fully cloudy, 15.9 Celsius, 1024kPa, Wind: 12.6km/h from NW.

2025-06-08 23:56:00

Iterable pueyrredon

Cordoba , Argentina

2025-06-08 23:48:00

Iterable pueyrredon

Cordoba , Argentina

2025-06-08 23:08:00

Gilboa, New York, United States

2025-06-08 21:43:00

Iterable pueyrredon

Cordoba , Argentina

2025-06-08 21:32:31

Bathgate, West Lothian, UK

2025-06-08 20:20:00

Foto Colectania Hangar Ràdio Web MACBA

Barcelona, Spain

2025-06-08 19:46:00

Seattle, United States

2025-06-08 19:23:00

Arbroath, Scotland

2025-06-08 19:22:20

Bathgate, West Lothian, UK

2025-06-08 12:40:55

Lajosmizse, Hungary

Sunny,, 29.4 Celsius, 1013kPa, Wind: 2.1km/h from West.

2025-06-08 11:54:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-06-08 11:43:00

Goownown Growers The Seaweed Institute

CAST, Helston, Cornwall, United Kingdom

2025-06-08 11:39:07

Bathgate, West Lothian, UK

2025-06-08 10:56:00

Oppressive Heat Project

Phnom Penh, Cambodia

2025-06-08 09:56:00

Mauritius, Mauritius

2025-06-08 09:34:43

Bathgate, West Lothian, UK

2025-06-08 08:56:18

Lajosmizse, Hungary

2025-06-08 08:21:00

Cyprus Amateur Radio Society

Nicosia , Cyprus

2025-06-08 07:33:00

Cosmos Astronomy Club MIT WPU

2025-06-08 07:16:39

Lajosmizse, Hungary

Sunny, 20 Celsius. Wind 8.2km/h, from NW.

2025-06-07 23:18:00

Goownown Growers The Seaweed Institute

CAST, Helston, Cornwall, United Kingdom

2025-06-07 22:14:00

Seattle, United States

2025-06-07 21:59:00

Cyprus Amateur Radio Society

Nicosia , Cyprus

2025-06-07 21:45:06

Bathgate, West Lothian, UK

2025-06-07 19:48:30

Bathgate, West Lothian, UK

2025-06-07 19:18:02

Next to Sejong Arts Center, Sejong City, South Korea, South Korea

A cool summer evening. I felt a sense of excitement and wonder as I held the antenna under the sky, listening to signals from space. This was my first solo attempt before joining this project with my students next week — I’m thrilled to start this journey together!

2025-06-07 18:53:00

Oppressive Heat Project

Phnom Penh, Cambodia

2025-06-07 11:52:00

Arbroath, Scotland

2025-06-07 11:51:49

Bathgate, West Lothian, UK

2025-06-07 11:33:00

Iterable pueyrredon

Cordoba , Argentina

2025-06-07 11:19:00

Cosmos Astronomy Club MIT WPU

2025-06-07 10:09:00

Mauritius, Mauritius

2025-06-07 09:27:00

Foto Colectania Hangar Ràdio Web MACBA

Barcelona, Spain

2025-06-07 08:32:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-06-07 08:29:00

Gilboa, New York, United States

2025-06-07 08:21:38

Bathgate, West Lothian, UK

2025-06-07 08:08:00

Iterable pueyrredon

Cordoba , Argentina

2025-06-07 07:42:35

Lajosmizse, Hungary

Sunny. 24 Celsius degrees.

2025-06-06 23:31:00

Goownown Growers The Seaweed Institute

CAST, Helston, Cornwall, United Kingdom

2025-06-06 22:46:00

Cosmos Astronomy Club MIT WPU

2025-06-06 21:59:00

Arbroath, Scotland

2025-06-06 21:57:45

Bathgate, West Lothian, UK

2025-06-06 20:54:00

Iterable pueyrredon

Cordoba , Argentina

2025-06-06 19:55:00

Tsonami Arte Sonoro

Valparaiso, Chile

2025-06-06 19:36:00

Ostrava, Czech republic

2025-06-06 13:03:24

Sasha Engelmann Soph Dyer

under the magnolia tree, Ciutadella Park, Barcelona, Spain

For open-weather, there is a politics to building and maintaining infrastructure to listen to systems at the threshold of transformation. In the long tradition of radio amateurs, cyberfeminists, and anticolonial practitioners, we feel that it is our responsibility to develop literacies with systems that capture and represent our planet – so that we are able to name and the violence they enact, as well as recognise their alternative meanings and potential openings for interventions or imagining otherwise. For NOAA-18’s decommissioning, the collective was in Barcelona, Spain. We rushed from our lunch break to nearby Ciutadella Park and tuned to the satellite’s transmission for one last time.

2025-06-06 13:03:00

Foto Colectania Hangar Ràdio Web MACBA

Barcelona, Spain

2025-06-06 12:31:00

Seattle, United States

2025-06-06 12:07:00

Gilboa, New York, United States

2025-06-06 12:05:10

Richard A Carter

University of York, Campus East, United Kingdom

2025-06-06 11:57:45

Richard A Carter

University of York, Campus East, United Kingdom

2025-06-06 11:56:49

Bathgate, West Lothian, UK

2025-06-06 11:46:00

Iterable pueyrredon

Cordoba , Argentina

2025-06-06 11:32:00

Cosmos Astronomy Club MIT WPU

2025-06-06 10:49:00

Cyprus Amateur Radio Society

Nicosia , Cyprus

2025-06-06 10:14:00

Mauritius, Mauritius

2025-06-06 10:13:00

Iterable pueyrredon

Cordoba , Argentina

2025-06-06 09:49:00

Oppressive Heat Project

Phnom Penh, Cambodia

2025-06-06 09:38:18

Anna Madeleine Raupach

Ngunawal / Ngambri land, ACT Australia

A cold morning after a frosty night - one of the first of our winter.

2025-06-06 08:47:06

Bathgate, West Lothian, UK

2025-06-05 23:43:42

Bathgate, West Lothian, UK

2025-06-05 23:08:00

Foto Colectania Hangar Ràdio Web MACBA

Barcelona, Spain

2025-06-05 22:59:20

Lajosmizse, Hungary

2025-06-05 22:59:00

Cosmos Astronomy Club MIT WPU

2025-06-05 22:53:00

Iterable pueyrredon

Cordoba , Argentina

2025-06-05 22:11:00

Goownown Growers The Seaweed Institute

CAST, Helston, Cornwall, United Kingdom

2025-06-05 22:10:25

Bathgate, West Lothian, UK

2025-06-05 21:26:20

Lajosmizse, Hungary

My homemade QFH antenna, copper tube. RSP1A receiver, manual receiving.

2025-06-05 20:22:00

Tsonami Arte Sonoro

Valparaiso, Chile

2025-06-05 19:25:00

Seattle, United States

It's only appropriate that just as the first heat wave strikes Seattle this summer, the life of 1 of only 3 remaining NOAA polar-orbiting satellites in operation has unexpectedly come to an end. Thanks to the unprecedented agency funding cuts in the current presidential administration, NOAA has ended support for this satellite program. While our skies are becoming smokier and hotter, we are losing more instruments to observe and document these changes. This image of static is the first pass decoded at the Seattle AGS after NOAA 18 was decommissioned. Rest in peaceful orbit...

2025-06-05 19:00:59

Bathgate, West Lothian, UK

2025-06-05 12:24:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-06-05 12:20:00

Gilboa, New York, United States

2025-06-05 12:09:43

Bathgate, West Lothian, UK

2025-06-05 11:59:00

Iterable pueyrredon

Cordoba , Argentina

2025-06-05 11:02:00

Cyprus Amateur Radio Society

Nicosia , Cyprus

2025-06-05 10:27:00

Mauritius, Mauritius

2025-06-05 10:26:00

Iterable pueyrredon

Cordoba , Argentina

2025-06-05 09:13:14

Bathgate, West Lothian, UK

2025-06-05 09:13:00

Arbroath, Scotland

2025-06-05 07:02:00

Oppressive Heat

Phnom Penh, Cambodia

2025-06-04 23:56:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-06-04 23:06:00

Iterable pueyrredon

Cordoba , Argentina

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