Umwelt als Ressource highlights the interaction and co-evolution of modern industry and the environment, using the example of the German paper industry in Saxony.
Hausmüll documents the rise of a "new" environmental problem in post-war Germany, that of an increase in consumption and consequently a dramatic increase in waste.
In 1947, inhabitants of Yakutsk gained access to potable groundwater from below the permafrost layer for the first time.
Little-known information is presented on the efforts to set up eider farms in the USSR between 1930 and 1960.
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.
Rohan Lloyd explores the relationship between scientific management and preservation of the Great Barrier Reef, with the understanding of anthropogenic climate change marking a pivotal point.
Anti-nuclear activism in Denmark was characterized by information campaigns and peaceful marches.
This article examines mobilization and resistance against pollution in the Alviela River in the Santarém municipality, Portugal, since the 1950s.
A map of the 1974 flood in Brisbane, Australia.
This painting by Leander Russ depicts a rescue operation during a flood in Vienna in 1847.
