Water, Firewood, and Disease in Nineteenth-Century Istanbul
This article looks at extreme droughts in Istanbul to understand the nineteenth-century changes in the Ottoman State.
This article looks at extreme droughts in Istanbul to understand the nineteenth-century changes in the Ottoman State.
A brief narration about typhoid disease in the postwar Balkan city Philippopolis.
The ship accident of Vicuña is considered one of the biggest disasters that occurred on the Brazilian coast of Paraná, Brazil.
In 1955, the Canadian Post Office Department issues a stamp to highlight its effective occupation of the High Arctic.
A look at the sociopolitical and environmental threats facing the Hadzabe hunter-gatherers in the Eyasi Basin, Tanzania.
This article focuses on the complicated interactions between climate change and the lives of people in and near Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
The Guaraní accused global corporations such as Coca Cola and Cargill of using their traditional knowledge associated with the stevia plant and filed for an access-and-benefit sharing agreement.
In Athens, 1886, an unprecedented debate took place concerning the poisoning of roaming dogs.
American equines shipped to the South African War suffered conditions like those on slave ships in the transatlantic slave trade.
This paper explores how conceptions of Canada as a naturally healthy environment proved false when the ill-health of civilians was revealed during the First World War.