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The Empire, the Naturalist, and the Countryside: Biological Science in Colonial Hong Kong
Geoffrey Herklots’ ambition to promote biology in interwar Hong Kong reflects the geopolitics of the British Empire.
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Xunáan Kab Rhythms: Native Bees and Ecological Change in Yucatan, Mexico
This entry focuses on native bees and their role as narrators of regional social and ecological histories.
Exhibition chapter
Moat–Bridge | Oceans in Three Paradoxes
Chapter 1 of Helen Rozwadowski’s virtual exhibition, Oceans in Three Paradoxes: Knowing the Blue through the Humanities.
Perspectives Article
Old and New Patterns of the Anthropocene
Jan Zalasiewicz presents the mounting evidence of the Anthropocene as a proposed geological epoch and points to the possible trajectories of planet Earth.
Perspectives Article
The Anthropocene Earth System and Three Human Stories
Julia Adeney Thomas explores three types of narrative that are emerging as people try to get to grips with the Anthropocene and their potential for steering our future course.
Multimedia | film profile
EHL VideoDictionary: Biodiversity
Donald Hughes on biodiversity. This is an entry in the KTH EHL VideoDictionary.
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Sandpipers and the Art of Letting Go: Narratives of Conservation in the Wadden Sea
How birds and poetry reacquaint us with an awareness of history and feelings of loss in Anthropocene nature reserves.
Multimedia | book excerpt
Animals and Society in Brazil, from the Sixteenth to Nineteenth Centuries
Excerpt from Animals and Society in Brazil, from the Sixteenth to Nineteenth Centuries.
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Becoming a Virgin Forest: From Remote Sensing to Erasing Environmental History
As virgin forests become carbon sinks and biodiversity hotspots, their coproduced history is consigned to oblivion.