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Arcadia, Autumn 2019, no. 41

The Bears’ Famous Invasion of Novaya Zemlya

Eugenio Luciano

Polar bears invade Russian archipelago and town in Novaya Zemlya, northern Russia.

Arcadia, Autumn 2019, no. 40

“The Tornado Was Not the A-Bomb’s Child”: The Politics of Extreme Weather in the Age of Atmospheric Nuclear Weapons Testing

Justin McBrien

When a tornado strikes Worcester, Massachusetts, residents suspect the disaster is the work of an unlikely culprit—the atomic bomb.

Arcadia, Autumn 2019, no. 39

“Yanqui Cotton Patch”: US Development Aid and Pesticide Use in Nicaragua

Hilary Francis

This article explores the impact of extensive pesticide use in Nicaragua after World War Two.

Arcadia, Autumn 2019, no. 38

Cosmology of the Ergene River Pollution

Çağdaş Dedeoğlu

This article investigates the pollution of the Ergene River as an outcome of the hegemonic cosmology in Turkey.

Arcadia, Autumn 2019, no. 37

The 1795 Disaster: Casualties of the Spiritual Waterscape of Lough Derg, County Donegal

James L. Smith

An account of the 1795 mass drowning on Lough Derg in Ireland’s County Donegal.

Arcadia, Autumn 2019, no. 36

Layers of Meaning and Layers of Time in a Former Russian Peat Mining Region

Katja Bruisch

This article explores the social and ecological legacies of the peat industry in Russia and the different meanings that people attach to peatlands after the end of peat extraction.

Arcadia, Autumn 2019, no. 35

Resistance in the Midst of the Anthropocene: The Rise and Fall of Artificial Earthquakes at the Rocky Mountain Arsenal, 1962–1966

Justin Whitney

This article explores the materialization of the Anthropocene at the local level.

Arcadia, Autumn 2019, no. 34

Coexisting with Nature: The Huts of the Camargue Wetlands

Catherine T. Dunlop

The Camargue hut, a traditional dwelling from the southern French wetlands, exemplified the practical environmental wisdom of ordinary people.

Arcadia, Autumn 2019, no. 33

Botanizing in the Borderlands

Lance C. Thurner

In the 1790s, Spanish naturalists traveled the vast realms of the Spanish Americas to seek out useful and commodifiable resources.

Arcadia, Autumn 2019, no. 32

Anaconda’s Pipelines: Water Supply Problems of a Desert Region

Anita Carrasco

This essay explores the paradoxical relationship between extractive activities of the mining company Anaconda and indigenous villages of Atacama, Chile.

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Arcadia: Explorations in Environmental History is an open-access, peer-reviewed publication platform for short, illustrated, and engaging environmental histories. Embedded in a particular time and place, each story focuses on a site, event, person, organization, or species as it relates to nature and human society. By publishing digitally on the Environment & Society Portal, Arcadia promotes accessibility and visibility of original research in global environmental history and cognate disciplines.

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