Historian Robert Gioielli, Carson fellow from September 2010 to June 2011, speaks about his research project, “Hard Asphalt and Heavy Metals: An Environmental History of the Urban Crisis.”
This is a chapter of the virtual exhibition “Welcome to the Anthropocene: The Earth in Our Hands”—written and curated by historian Nina Möllers.
Environmental history is becoming increasingly important in research, teaching, and public outreach.
Excerpt from the book Greening Europe: Environmental Protection in the Long Twentieth Century – A Handbook.
Overview of the exhibition “Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring: A book that changed the world” by historian Mark Stoll. This exhibition presents the global reception and impact of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring.
This is Chapter 2 of the exhibition “Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring: A book that changed the world” by historian Mark Stoll.
Environmental activism in the 1960s forced the Army Corps of Engineers to limit the open-water dumping of dredge spoils in the Great Lakes and create new “natural” areas along the shore.
Full text of Gender and Sustainability.
The documentary follows a tribe in one of the poorest regions in India and its fight to save a sacred mountain from multinational mining moguls.
The text “Weltnaturschutz” (World nature protection) by Paul Sarasin (1856–1929) is a key document in the history of the global nature conservation movement.
