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Welcome to the Portal

The Environment & Society Portal invites you to discover openly accessible resources on the human-environment relationship. Explore interpretive exhibitions, illustrated Arcadia articles, Places & Events, and the Multimedia Library’s journals, images, and recordings. We hope you’ll find unexpected inspiration.

The Wegener Diaries: Scientific Expeditions into the Eternal Ice

Visit "The Wegener Diaries: Scientific Expeditions into the Eternal Ice" and get unique insights into the manifold challenges German polar explorer Alfred Wegener and his team faced during their expeditions to Greenland between 1906 and 1931.

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Arcadia: Online Explorations in Global Environmental History

Browse Arcadia, a collection of illustrated encyclopedia-like articles about places, events, people, organizations, and species as they relate to both nature and human society.

Browse Arcadia
Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, a book that changed the world

Visit the online exhibition "Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, a book that changed the world" and learn all about the global reception and impact of Silent Spring as well as about the book’s legacy in popular culture, music, literature, and the arts.

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Multimedia Library for environmental humanities

The Multimedia Library’s diverse collection of digitized documents, images, podcasts, and films aims to inspire curiosity about environmental humanities topics and possibly even new ideas for research.

Browse Multimedia Library
Wilderness Babel

Visit the online exhibition "Wilderness Babel" and explore the linguistics of wilderness. Find out what wilderness means in your language and learn about the term's various meanings in different cultural settings.

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More about the Portal

The Environment & Society Portal is a project of 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 English and in German.

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Welcome to the Portal

The Wegener Diaries: Scientific Expeditions into the Eternal Ice

Arcadia: Online Explorations in Global Environmental History

Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, a book that changed the world

Multimedia Library for environmental humanities

Wilderness Babel

Traverse
the globe

Travel
through time

Trace
connections

More about the Portal

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