Periodicals

In this book, Laura Dassow Walls describes how the explorer Alexander von Humboldt developed his unitary worldview.

Russell employs the notion of the coevolution of plants, animals, and microorganisms to explain the causes and consequences of a broad range of events.

In Toxic Bodies Langston tells us of the synthetic estrogen diethylstilbestrol (DES), a hormone disruptor that doctors prescribed to pregnant women for decades in the mid-twentieth century.

In this book David Zierler tries to explain the success of the campaign against herbicidal warfare that followed the start of Operation Ranch Hand in 1961.

In this book Mark Carey identifies glacial retreat as a historical reality that has played a substantial role in the political, economic, and social dramas of South America.

If climate change mitigation through political agreement has no hope of succeeding, does it make sense to tinker with the climate?

Why do we continue to talk about the debate over global warming as if it were a scientific controversy?

Mosquito Empires, spanning nearly three centuries and the histories of many peoples, nations, and empires in the American tropical world, places considerable responsibility upon mosquitoes for the course of events in this region.

T. J. Demos, reader in modern and contemporary art at University College London, provides an overview of how relationships between contemporary art, ecology and concepts of sustainability have evolved over the last fifty years.

Gabriella Corona in conversation with Piero Bevilacqua, Guillermo Castro, Ranjan Chakrabarti, Kobus du Pisani, John R. McNeill, and Donald Worster.