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From Pulley to Pipe: The Decline of the Wells of Bangalore
This article investigates the transition of water supply in Bangalore, where wells were gradually replaced by piped water.
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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.
Exhibition chapter
Einführung in die Ausstellung | Mensch und Natur in der deutschen Literatur
This German-language version of Sabine Wilke’s virtual exhibition features short excerpts from German-language literary texts that address human-nature entanglements. The aim is to show how literature can contribute to understanding and problematizing the relation between humans and nonhuman nature. What aspects of human-nature relations are addressed, at what point in literary history, and how are they shaped poetically? For the English-language version of this exhibition, click here.
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Dike 14, Cleveland, Ohio: Containing Pollution in the Age of Ecology
Environmental activism in the 1960s forced the Army Corps of Engineers to limit the open-water dumping of dredge spoils in the Great Lakes and create new “natural” areas along the shore.
Exhibition chapter
Umweltverschmutzung und Abfall | Mensch und Natur in der deutschen Literatur
In this chapter of the German-language version of her virtual exhibition, “Mensch und Natur in der deutschen Literatur (Human-Nature Relations in German Literature),” Sabine Wilke shows how topics of pollution and waste in German-language writing reach back to the nineteenth century, when the production of industrial waste—and pollution of the air, ground, and water—first began to occur on a massive scale. For the English-language version of this exhibition, click here.
Multimedia | podcast
Nature's Past episode 47: "Pollution Probe and the History of Environmental Activism in Ontario”
In episode 47 of Nature’s Past, a podcast on Canadian environmental history, author Ryan O’Connor discusses the ENGO Pollution Probe and the early years of environmental activism in Canada with Sean Kheraj.
Multimedia | film profile
Plastic China
A woman and her family live next to a recycling plant in China, in mountains of plastic waste from Asia, Europe, and the U.S.This documentary reveals the lives of those on the fringes of global capitalist realities, a far cry from the communist dream.
Exhibition chapter
Nourish: A 360° Video Poem (Baltic Sea) | A 360º Visual Journey
In this chapter from the virtual exhibition “Global Environments: A 360º Visual Journey,” Jesse Peterson’s 360° video presents both an environment and posthuman character from which the human cannot be disentangled, in the context of cultural eutrophication fueled by anthropogenic sources of pollution and climate change affecting the marine environment.
Multimedia | journal article
"Breathing Air with Heft: An Experiential Report on Environmental Law and Public Health in China"
This article explores the intersections of daily life and environmental law in modern China. With comparative perspectives on analogous challenges in the United States, it reports on these critical domestic challenges for China at a pivotal moment in its reemergence as a dominant world power.
Perspectives Article
Promoting Health, Combating Climate Change: How the Promotores de Salud Network in the US-Mexico Borderlands is Building Climate Resilience
Schur Petri demonstrates how local health workers can effectively communicate climate risks on the ground.