“Cozy Families” or “Hideous Brutes”?—Working with Southern Elephant Seals on the French Kerguelen Islands
In 1908, Raymond Rallier du Baty and his crew struggled to reconcile their sympathy for elephant seals with their violence against them.
In 1908, Raymond Rallier du Baty and his crew struggled to reconcile their sympathy for elephant seals with their violence against them.
The historical politicization of the invasive black locust in Hungary.
Peat was a widely used fuel in mid-nineteenth-century Berlin that acted as a bridge in the energy transition between firewood and coal.
This exhibition shows some of the many links between the Neva River in St. Petersburg and the Viennese Danube discovered during the joint Russian-Austrian research project “The Long-Term Dynamics of Fish Populations and Ecosystems of European Rivers.”
Exploring the cultural and environmental transformation of Rocky Flats from military industrial complex to protected habitat.
This article studies the “Neste war,” 1970–1972, the first major victory of the environmental movement in Finland.
This article looks at changing perceptions of whales along the coasts of Portugal.
This article shows how rural collective action in tropical Australia transformed plantations into small farms in the late nineteenth century.
This article investigates the origins of the exploitation of sperm whales off the Brazilian coast in the eighteenth century.
Beijing’s huge palaces rest on giant timbers logged in the far reaches of southwestern China, a project with disastrous implications.