Uranium: Is it a country?
This film examines the processes and politics involved in mining uranium at sites such as the Olympic Dam in Australia and transporting it to Europe in order to generate nuclear power.
This film examines the processes and politics involved in mining uranium at sites such as the Olympic Dam in Australia and transporting it to Europe in order to generate nuclear power.
This article examines energy consumption, the transition from organic to fossil energy carriers, and the consequent CO2 emissions over a period of almost 150 years (1861–2000) in Italy and Spain.
This film follows Father Marco, a priest who has earned a price on his head because of his opposition to Peru’s powerful mining companies.
This film examines the pros and cons of the financialization of nature, an approach which some believe can make up for failed political solutions.
Beschädigte Vegetation und sterbender Wald traces the history of the environmental problem of air pollution and its damaging effects on forests in Germany.
The article focuses on the role of militants in compounding the problem of environmental degradation in the Niger Delta region in Nigeria.
Jennifer Clapp examines the nature of international trade in toxic waste and the roles of multinational corporations and environmental NGOs. Waste transfer has become a routine practice for firms in industrialized countries and poor countries accept these imports but struggle to manage the materials safely. She argues that governments have failed to recognize the voices of protest.
This film examines lessons learnt from fracking in the US state of Colorado as the practice quietly expands to protected areas around the world.
The world is full of environmental injustices and inequalities; yet few European historians have tackled these subjects head on, nor have they explored their relationships with social inequalities.
This chapter from the virtual exhibition “The Life of Waste” discusses the origins of waste, our methods of consumption and the consequent production of waste, and how we learn to waste.