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Winter Water and Mobility in Early Modern Amsterdam
During the Little Ice Age’s harsh winters, frozen waterways posed challenges and opportunities in the Dutch Republic.
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Carbon Bomb: Indonesia’s Failed Mega Rice Project
In 1997 and 1998 peat swamp forests burned in Borneo, Indonesia, spewing big amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
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The Water Shops of Republican Tianjin
The water shop was a crucial part of the traditional water supply system in imperial and early modern China.
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Unifying the Yangzi Watershed in Early Twentieth-Century China
This article examines early twentieth-century China’s top-down scheme of managing rivers based on watershed.
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Civilizing Nature with the Spade and the Rifle: The Engineer Battalion in the Araucanía Region, Chile (1877–1891)
In the nineteenth century, the Chilean army developed a strategy to conquer the environment.
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Subterranean (In)visibilities: Traces, Underground Water, and Thermal Flows in the El Tatio Geyser Field, Atacama, Chile
Describing geothermal exploration traces and explosions at the “El Tatio” geyser field, this article explores the (in)visible trajectories of underground water.
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Logistical Ecologies: A Singapore Story
In the second half of the nineteenth century, the establishment of Keppel Harbour would lay the foundations for Singapore to become a logistics city.
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Land Subsidence and the Reservoirs of the Washburn Valley
Water management can have profound effects upon the landscape.
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“Moby Dick” in the Rhine: How a Beluga Whale Raised Awareness of Water Pollution in West Germany
In 1966, a stray beluga whale swimming up and down the polluted Lower Rhine caught the media’s attention in West Germany.