Content Index

Demonstrating against hormone-treated beef, protesters destroy a McDonald’s restaurant in Millau, France.

Mosquito Empires, spanning nearly three centuries and the histories of many peoples, nations, and empires in the American tropical world, places considerable responsibility upon mosquitoes for the course of events in this region.

Why do we continue to talk about the debate over global warming as if it were a scientific controversy?

If climate change mitigation through political agreement has no hope of succeeding, does it make sense to tinker with the climate?

In this book Mark Carey identifies glacial retreat as a historical reality that has played a substantial role in the political, economic, and social dramas of South America.

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.

Russell employs the notion of the coevolution of plants, animals, and microorganisms to explain the causes and consequences of a broad range of events.

The first scientific conference on the causes of climate change takes place in Boulder, Colorado, in the US.

This dam project alters the Niger delta’s previously dynamic and self-regulating ecosystem.

This arboretum is founded by Mexican environmentalist Miguel Angel de Quevedo.