Hagood looks at Rachel Carson’s earlier popular publications on the natural history of the oceans and their impact on Silent Spring (1962).
This is a chapter of the virtual exhibition “Welcome to the Anthropocene: The Earth in Our Hands”—written and curated by historian Nina Möllers.
This is a chapter of the virtual exhibition “Welcome to the Anthropocene: The Earth in Our Hands”—written and curated by historian Nina Möllers.
In 1879, eight-year-old Maria Justina discovered spectacular paintings in the Altamira cave in northern Spain.
Boyan Slat combines environmentalism, creativity, and technology to tackle global issues of sustainability and pollution.
This book documents the burgeoning eco art movement from A to Z, presenting a panorama of artistic responses to environmental concerns.
American knowledge of British coal practices had at least two crucial implications for the timing and shape of the nation’s first fossil fuel energy transition. This story suggests that attention to transnational contexts can help us better understand how, when, and why energy transitions occur.
In October 1861 Philipp Reis presented his “telephone” to the members of the physics association in Frankfurt.
On his Apollo mission in 1968, astronaut Bill Anders shot one of the most well-known photographs of the Earth—“Earthrise.” It became a symbol for the fragility of the Earth and an icon for the environmental movement that soon followed.
