This article explores the materialization of the Anthropocene at the local level.
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This book packs into one slender volume a sweeping tale of fire, and humanity’s interactions with fire, from prehistory to the dawn of the twenty-first century.
The Camargue hut, a traditional dwelling from the southern French wetlands, exemplified the practical environmental wisdom of ordinary people.
This article tells the epic tale of the fall and rise of Mono Lake— the strange and beautiful Dead Sea of California—which fostered some of the most important environmental law developments of the last century.
In the 1790s, Spanish naturalists traveled the vast realms of the Spanish Americas to seek out useful and commodifiable resources.
This essay explores the paradoxical relationship between extractive activities of the mining company Anaconda and indigenous villages of Atacama, Chile.
A historical examination of the occurrence of pests and diseases in tobacco farming and the environmental impact in Southern Rhodesia.
In 1783, strong earthquakes shook Calabria. These events, in combination with a dry sulfuric fog, led contemporaries to believe they lived in the time of a “subsurface revolution.”
Once the largest toxic e-waste dump in the world, government investment in environmentally sustainable recycling has begun to change Guiyu.
This article examines early twentieth-century China’s top-down scheme of managing rivers based on watershed.