Excerpt from the book American Tropics: The Caribbean Roots of Biodiversity Science by Megan Raby.
This film explores the negative impacts of the multi-billion dollar carbon offsetting industry on those people who are most impacted but least heard.
The Panama Canal opens for shipping on 15 August 1914. This 77.1 kilometer canal connects the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean across the Isthmus of Panama. It eliminates the need for ships to make a long and hazardous detour around Cape Horn and provides a much faster and safer route between the two oceans.
This paper considers the construction of the Panama Canal in order to analyze the confluence of imperialism, modernity, and environmental control.
Castro wishes to encourage a new reading of the best-known sources and authors associated with this issue, as well as the adoption of a new perspective on the deep origins of the environmental problems that the country faces today.
During the twentieth century, two different ways of relating with nature interacted in Panama…
