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Scanning Tunneling Microscope
Nanotechnology can revolutionize the production of materials and offer ecological solutions but it may have unexpected consequences or lead to mismanagement.
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Fisheries, Fishers, and Fish Trading in the Urban Environment | Neva and Danube Rivers
In this chapter of their virtual exhibition “‘Commanding, Sovereign Stream’: The Neva and the Viennese Danube in the History of Imperial Metropolitan Centers,” the authors describe fish resources in St. Petersburg and Vienna and their role in urban life from different perspectives. Fisheries constituted an important part of local economic activities and fishers—both poor professionals and wealthy leisure anglers—were very visible in the cities’ crowds, at their markets, and on the banks of their rivers and canals.
Arcadia
Manoomin: The Taming of Wild Rice in the Great Lakes Region
Wild rice was “tamed” when domesticated in the 1950s, yet both cultivated and foraged wild rice face shared contemporary challenges.
Arcadia
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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Facing Changes, Changing Targets: Sperm-Whale Hunting in Late Eighteenth-Century Brazil
This article investigates the origins of the exploitation of sperm whales off the Brazilian coast in the eighteenth century.
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Munich and the Isar | Ecopolis München
Munich and the Isar: The City Makes the River?