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“It Was a Blast!”—Camp Life on Christmas Island, 1956–1958
The day-to-day experiences of the men who developed and tested the British nuclear deterrent on Christmas Island from 1956–1958.
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Chemical Rubble: Historicizing Toxic Waste in a Former Mining Town in Northern Chile
This article is an exploration of the chemical heritage of mining activities in northern Chile.
Multimedia | book profile
The Great Transformation. Climate - Can We Beat the Heat?
The comic The Great Transformation. Climate - Can We Beat the Heat? illustrates the 2011 report by the German Advisory Council on Global Change (WBGU). In nine episodes, WBGU members take on the role of comic heroes to explain the Great Transformation towards a climate-friendly, sustainable society.
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The Urban Planet: How Cities Save Our Future
This comic The Urban Planet: How Cities Save Our Future condenses into an illustrated story the fundamental findings of Humanity on the Move: Unlocking the Transformative Power of Cities, a report published by the German Advisory Council on Global Change (WBGU).
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Photograph: Dome on Runit Island
Covering the crater of a 1977 nuclear test, the “Cactus Dome” contains 84,000 cubic meters of radioactive soil.
Perspectives Article
Dragons Abroad: Chinese Migration and Environmental Change in Australasia
An examination of the role played by Chinese immigration to New Zealand and Australia in the understanding of the environment.
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An Unnatural History of Rocky Flats National Wildlife Refuge, Colorado
Exploring the cultural and environmental transformation of Rocky Flats from military industrial complex to protected habitat.
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Abandonment Issues: Producing Industrial Heritage Landscapes at the São Domingos Mine
This piece examines the historical context of industrial heritage tourism of the post-industrial landscape at the São Domingos Mine in southeastern Portugal.
Exhibition chapter
Introduction to the Exhibition | Human-Nature Relations in German Literature: A Curated Stroll
This virtual exhibition features, in English translation, 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 German-language version of this exhibition, click here.
Exhibition chapter
Pollution and Waste | Human-Nature Relations in German Literature: A Curated Stroll
In this chapter of her virtual exhibition “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 German-language version of this exhibition, click here.