Clips by students attending the Universidad Internacional (Internationale Sommeruniversität/International University), a collaborative project that involves a range of universities and other organisations in Germany and Chile.
Burning cultivation of peatlands has been practised in peat-rich countries at one time or other throughout Western Europe. In these and other peat-rich countries, the inclusion of the emissions from burning cultivation could substantially alter historical carbon dioxide emission estimates.
This issue of Environment and History completes a third year of the new journal, and presents a useful opportunity for reflection about the state of the discipline.
The first part of the paper discusses the social, economic and legal history of the copper smoke problem, and the technology employed to control emissions. The second part deals with the chemical composition of copper smoke and estimates the output and dispersion of copper smoke and other metal fumes from the Llanelli Copper Company’s works in the 1860s.
The Kyoto Protocol is an addition to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) that stipulates a reduction of greenhouse gases.
