Sounds in the Sky: Listening for the Aurora Borealis at Fort Chipewyan
Part of the scientific agenda of the British Arctic land expedition of 1819-22 was to investigate whether the appearance of the aurora borealis was accompanied by any sound.
Part of the scientific agenda of the British Arctic land expedition of 1819-22 was to investigate whether the appearance of the aurora borealis was accompanied by any sound.
A classic proponent of the trans-European Economic Enlightenment, the Oekonomische Gesellschaft Bern, founded in 1759, strove to optimize the use of the region’s resources in order to protect the sovereignty of the state of Bern. Its significance should not be measured according to its immediate practical effects, but rather in view of how its ideas for new forms of scientifically based natural resource usage unfolded over the long term.
Established in 1914, the Swiss National Park was one of Europe’s very first national parks. Scientific research became its hallmark and it became an important model for the establishment of protected areas around the world.
In 1862, Wilhelm von Blandowski produced The Encyclopedia of Australia as a large visual atlas of 142 plates dedicated to a comprehensive representation of the continent Australia.
The Galapagos Islands National Park, which was established in 1959, shelters Charles Darwin’s showcase of evolution and has become a testing field for international nature conservation concepts.
Latin America’s first national park derived from private and public ideas and became a template for regional conservation.
At the 1873 annual meeting of AAAS, Franklin B. Hough argued for protection of America’s forests and conducted the first national investigation of wildland fire.
This Arcadia article is about how camels used, until recently, to be a central feature of the steppe landscape of Southern Ukraine.
The First International Conference on Iceberg Utilization, held at Iowa State University in October 1977, contributed to the formation of nascent hydrologics in the late 1970s.
Effective strategies for rat control based on ecology were invented in Baltimore in the 1940s. The program, however, did not last.