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Entomology and Empire: Settler Colonial Science and the Campaign for Hawaiian Annexation
Pest control was a political act in late-nineteenth-century Hawaiʻi, helping sugarcane planters pursue annexation to the United States.
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Dead Zones and Toxic Algae Bloom in US Waters
Aquatic dead zones result from pollution caused by excessive fertilizer runoff and wastewater discharge. Their number and extent are increasing.
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Urban Horticulture in Modena, Italy, 1980–2015
In 1980, Modena was the first city in Italy to introduce a law recognizing social urban allotments.
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“Hit them hard and hit them well.” Possums, Pollution, and the Past in Aotearoa/New Zealand
The killing of possums as “pests” is framed as a caring relationship towards Aotearoa/New Zealand’s natural environment.
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Attempts to Establish Eider Farms in the USSR, and Why These Failed
Little-known information is presented on the efforts to set up eider farms in the USSR between 1930 and 1960.
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A Post-Wilderness National Park: Naturecultures of Destruction and Recuperation in the Castlemaine Goldfields
Once a denuded gold mining landscape, now a National Heritage Park, this place is site of emerging environmental histories of post-colonizing, post-mining lands.
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Mobilization against Genetically Modified Organisms in Portugal
This article studies mobilization against GMOs in Portugal since the 1990s.
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The Mystery of the Merganser
How Australian historical documents resolved questions about an unusual merganser specimen from Korea at the American Museum of Natural History.
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Once Upon a Game Reserve: Sambisa and the Tragedy of a Forested Landscape
This article focuses on the loss of the Sambisa Forest as a game reserve due to the conflict between the Nigerian army and the terrorist group Boko Haram.
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Making the “European Yellowstone”—Unintended Consequences or Unrealistic Intentions?
A neo-protectionist conservation plan proposes a private natural reserve in the Carpathians, promoting historically produced landscape as pristine nature and triggering growing discontent from local land users.