Welcome to our Portal

The Environment & Society Portal is a nonprofit education and research project that aims to make environmental humanities materials freely and openly accessible. We are pleased to launch with a small but fascinating selection of digital multimedia and interpretive features. Our goal is to cultivate the spirit of exploration and serendipity that characterizes research, allowing users to find—in a digital environment—unexpected results.

We invite you to discover something unexpected! To get started, type a search term in the box to the right, or click on one of the three navigation tools below.

Traverse the globe

Zoom, pan, and plot search results on the Map Viewer

Travel through time

View and compare events with the Timeline Tool

Trace connections

Find related results with the Keyword Explorer

About the Portal

The Environment & Society Portal is created by the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, a joint initiative of LMU Munich and the Deutsches Museum. The center is supported by a grant from the German Federal Ministry for Education and Research. Read more about the Portal.

In the coming years we want the Portal to grow dramatically and to include more thematically and geographically diverse environmental humanities content. You can help by contacting us with your .

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