A global view of the age of plastic, from its beginnings to the increasingly serious implications it has for humans and the environment.

This paper traces the emergence in Russia of an interest in water as a public health issue from the 1830s and 1840s through to the modernising Great Reforms, when private interests helped bring older plans into reality.

Edmund P. Russell, a Carson Fellow from October 2010 to June 2011, speaks of his collaborative research with neuroscientists and interest in designing environments to promote well-being.

In Toxic Bodies Langston tells us of the synthetic estrogen diethylstilbestrol (DES), a hormone disruptor that doctors prescribed to pregnant women for decades in the mid-twentieth century.