Multimedia | film profile
Tipping Point
On a journey through the Northwest Passage, this film examines the devastating effects of the Arctic’s disappearing sea ice on the planet’s climate and ecosystems.
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Perspectives
Sites of Remembering: Landscapes, Lessons, Policies
This volume explores the potential contribution memory studies can make to policymaking, in particular on conservation and disaster resilience.
Multimedia | film profile
There Once Was an Island: Te Henua e Nnoho
The Polynesian community of Takuu, a tiny low-lying atoll in the South Western Pacific, experiences the devastating effects of climate change first-hand.
Multimedia | podcast
Interview with Stephen J. Pyne, author of The Pyrocene: How We Created an Age of Fire, and What Happens Next
In this episode from the New Books Network podcast, Stephen J. Pyne is interviewed on his recent book, The Pyrocene: How We Created an Age of Fire, and What Happens Next.
Exhibition chapter
Trade-offs | Another Silent Spring
In “Another Silent Spring,” historian Donald Worster explains how human relations with other animals, wild and domestic, is at the core of a majority of epidemics.
Arcadia
River Rights at Rockhampton (a Rhetoric)
Rivers need property rights so that humans can live with floods.
Arcadia
The Thames Barrier: London's Moveable Flood Defense
In 1975, construction began for the Thames Barrier, a moveable flood defense located on the River Thames, downstream of central London in the United Kingdom.
Exhibition chapter
The Northwest Passage as a Voyage to Myth and Adventure | The Northwest Passage
Is the Arctic the last frontier? With text, audio, and video, historian Elena Baldassarri describes the historical struggle to find a passage through the perilous environments of the Far North. This is a chapter of the virtual exhibition “The Northwest Passage: Myth, Environment, and Resources.”
Arcadia
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.
Exhibition chapter
Epidemics and ecology | Another Silent Spring
In “Another Silent Spring,” historian Donald Worster explains how human relations with other animals, wild and domestic, is at the core of a majority of epidemics.