As virgin forests become carbon sinks and biodiversity hotspots, their coproduced history is consigned to oblivion.

Across a century and a half, colonial, private and government salt farming at Sambhar has transformed the ecology of the lake and caused a slow cataclysm of pollution, affecting wildlife and livelihoods.

The Mennonite migrations from Ukraine to Kansas in 1874 transformed traditional tallgrass prairie for grain production.

The history of the Danube regulation in the Austrian Machland during the nineteenth century shows the enormous efforts made to transform a dynamic river landscape into a navigable waterway and a stable floodplain that supports the various human demands.