This piece examines the historical context of industrial heritage tourism of the post-industrial landscape at the São Domingos Mine in southeastern Portugal.
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 article investigates the origins of the exploitation of sperm whales off the Brazilian coast in the eighteenth century.
The construction of the Serre-Ponçon dam in 1955 was the first step in the development of dams in the Durance River, the most regulated waterway in France
To whom does the Northwest Passage belong? Historian Elene Baldassarri writes about the politics of the Far North. This is a chapter of the virtual exhibition “The Northwest Passage: Myth, Environment, and Resources.”
In this chapter of her virtual exhibition “Human-Nature Relations in German Literature,” Sabine Wilke examines forests and deforestation in works by Adalbert Stifter, Marlen Haushofer, and Elfriede Jelinek. For the German-language version of this exhibition, click here.
Munich and the Isar: The City Makes the River?
This chapter from the virtual exhibition “The Life of Waste” discusses the call for radical changes in our consumption and production patterns, and littering behavior. It explores the concepts of zero waste, upcycling, and recycling.
