Lowcountry Hurricanes: Three Centuries of Storms at Sea and Ashore
This illustrated history recounts how, for the past three hundred years, hurricanes have altered lives and landscapes along the Georgia-South Carolina seaboard.
This illustrated history recounts how, for the past three hundred years, hurricanes have altered lives and landscapes along the Georgia-South Carolina seaboard.
Wolf Read, a 2009 graduate student in the Department of Forest Sciences at UBC, talks about his research on the complicated nature of windstorms in British Columbia’s Lower Mainland.
This article argues for the hybridization of electric utility regimes by means of innovative adaptation of wind power. For a number of reasons, and with the mediation of many different actors, wind power in Denmark proved to be a viable addition to the power system. It did not radically transform the system but nor did it leave it unchanged.
Jonathan Carruthers Jones’s 360º video takes you on a journey with multiple hikers to the Arctic Circle, the Abisko National Park in northern Sweden, to understand what wilderness means to people. He concludes that even though it is a much-contested term—with supposedly lots of personal differences in opinions—people share a lot in common in their views of what wilderness is.