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“Too Much Loose Sand”: Narrating Coastal Erosion in Southeast Ireland
An exploration of Colm Tóibín’s literary responses to the coastal erosion of Ireland’s County Wexford.
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Multimedia | book profile
State of the World 2015: Confronting Hidden Threats to Sustainability
The 2015 edition examines what we think we know about environmental damage and the hidden threats to sustainability we need to recognize.
Multimedia | journal article
“Ecological Constitutionalism: A Necessity”
In view of the escalating environmental crisis, the democratic states of the Global North must ecologically transform their social and constitutional orders.
Multimedia | film profile
Standing on Sacred Ground: Islands of Sanctuary
This episode of a four-part documentary series reveals the struggles of indigenous Hawaiians and Australian Aboriginals to protect their sacred areas from modern and industrial encroachment.
Multimedia | image
America and the Transatlantic Triangular Trade
In the eighteenth century, cheap raw materials from the Americas and other emerging markets drove European world trade. The transatlantic triangular trade between Europe, Africa and America was established.
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Mass Spectrometry and Geological Eras
Geologists from the International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS) are responsible for deciding how the Earth’s history should be categorized into epochs and eras based on geological deposition in the earth.
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Histories of Transitions | Energy Transitions
In this chapter of the virtual exhibition “Energy Transitions,” historian Nuno Luís Madureira argues that the study of such transitions itself has gone through changes over the course of history.
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Tuberculosis in Echuca, and the Therapeutic Migration to Southeastern Australia (1889–1908)
In the nineteenth century, tuberculous individuals could travel from Europe to Echuca, Australia, in search of a cure.