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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.
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The Competing Influences of Deluge and Drought in Queensland’s Dry Tropics
The 2019 flooding of Townsville in northern Australia proved that Queensland’s dry tropical environment is a temperamental master.
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From Nature to Infrastructure: Vallisaari Island in the Helsinki Archipelago
A centuries-old military island in the Helsinki archipelago is shaped by competing forces of abandonment and infrastructural development.
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The Distant Roots of Beijing’s Palaces
Beijing’s huge palaces rest on giant timbers logged in the far reaches of southwestern China, a project with disastrous implications.
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Touching Power: White Womanhood, Colonial Spectacle, and the “Forces of Nature” at the Boulder Power Inaugural
Gender colonization, progress, and nature on display as the first electricity from Hoover Dam arrived in Los Angeles in 1936.
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Other-than-Human Survivance Against the Trent-Severn Waterway
Emerging from an Indigenous Nishnaabeg ontology, “survivance” calls for an understanding of other-than-human persons as agentially surviving and resisting colonial violence.
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A Great Land Waiting | MB Williams
In the 1920s, MB rode horseback, hiked, and drove through the national parks of Western Canada. From this research, she wrote the most distinctive and enduring series of guidebooks that the Canadian park system has ever produced.
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Molluscan Explosion: The Dutch Shipworm Epidemic of the 1730s
An invasive mollusk called the shipworm (Teredo navalis) attacked coastal dikes in the Netherlands in the 1730s, leading to changes in the design of dikes.