Photograph of Rachel Carson testifying before Congress, 1963
Rachel Carson testifying before the Senate Government Operations subcommitte.
Rachel Carson testifying before the Senate Government Operations subcommitte.
Covering the crater of a 1977 nuclear test, the “Cactus Dome” contains 84,000 cubic meters of radioactive soil.
This 1988 photograph by Richard Misrach portrays the influential activist group Princesses Against Plutonium.
Franz Kebl photographed the propeller sled Schneespatz, used in Alfred Wegener’s 1930 Greenland expedition.
Lithograph by Leopold Niemirowski from Puteshestvie po vostochnoi Sibiri I. Bulychova (Bulychov’s Travels in Eastern Siberia), 1856.
A map of the 1974 flood in Brisbane, Australia.
Fedor Yakovlevich Alekseev’s painting of Karuselnaya square (now Teatralnaya square) during the 1824 flood.
This painting by Leander Russ depicts a rescue operation during a flood in Vienna in 1847.
A photograph of Theodore Roosevelt visiting the Nahuel Huapi National Park in Argentina, 1913.
An unexpected group of activists, consisting of mostly farmers and vintners, occupied the construction site of a nuclear reactor near the German town of Wyhl in 1975.