Winged Scourge
An animated Disney film featuring the Seven Dwarves, showing various methods of combating the transmission of malaria by Anopheles mosquitoes.
An animated Disney film featuring the Seven Dwarves, showing various methods of combating the transmission of malaria by Anopheles mosquitoes.
Regina Horta Duarte uses the unannounced leveling of 350 Ficus benjamina along the principal avenue of Belo Horizonte, Brazil in November 1963 as the starting point for discussing the relationship between nature and society in Latin American urban environments.
The untold story behind the importation and release of the gypsy moth in North America.
A cultural history of bees and beekeeping in the United States.
Wild Earth 10, no. 3 features essays on “little things”: the microbial microcosm, forgotten pollinators like birds and bats, the American burying beetle, and butterflies.
This is a chapter of the virtual exhibition “Welcome to the Anthropocene: The Earth in Our Hands”—written and curated by historian Nina Möllers.
Through a short account of French reclamation in Algeria, this paper shows that it is between two divergent notions of environmental agency—environments acted upon and environments acting—that unruliness emerges as a provocative and potentially useful theme for environmental historians.
David Bello explores the fraught struggle between humans and locusts for occupancy of the agricultural niches created by farmers during China’s Qing dynasty.
Combating malaria through travel, diet, natural remedies, and architecture in early modern England.
Kelsey Green and Franklin Ginn investigate the response to colony collapse disorder (CCD) of a committed group of beekeepers, examining the philosophies and practices of alternative apiculture along two axes: the gifts of honey and poison; longing, connection, and bee-worship.