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An ecological whodunit: The story of colony collapse disorder (2020)
Journal Article
Portus, R. (2023). An ecological whodunit: The story of colony collapse disorder. Society and Animals, 31, 242–260. https://doi.org/10.1163/15685306-BJA10026

As life on Earth becomes increasingly precarious, it becomes ever clearer that, while some nonhuman losses are perceived as tragic and controversial, many more are left to slip away, unnoticed and unmourned. The purpose of this study, then, is to det... Read More about An ecological whodunit: The story of colony collapse disorder.

Bees, extinction and ambient soundscapes: An exploratory environmental communication workshop (2019)
Journal Article
Portus, R., & McGinn, C. (2019). Bees, extinction and ambient soundscapes: An exploratory environmental communication workshop. Humanities, 8(3), Article 153. https://doi.org/10.3390/h8030153

As a response to the challenges that visual communication, popularly used in environmental communications, poses for more embodied engagements with climate change, this article focuses upon the neglected role of sound within environmental and climate... Read More about Bees, extinction and ambient soundscapes: An exploratory environmental communication workshop.

Where are the bees now? Exploring loss in an age of extinction (2018)
Digital Artefact
Portus, R. (2018). Where are the bees now? Exploring loss in an age of extinction. [Online Article]

We are living in an age of loss: the sixth mass extinction. Following this year's shocking report that the planet has lost half its wildlife in the past 40 years, and the 2018 Remembrance Day for Lost Species, we bring you 'The Vanishing'. In this ne... Read More about Where are the bees now? Exploring loss in an age of extinction.