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Bombs and Biodiversity: A Case Study of Military Environmentalism in Australia
The history of Puckapunyal Military Training Area illustrates how war and the environment interact in sometimes unexpected ways.
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Atlantropa – Endless Energy from the Mediterranean Sea
The construction of a giant dam across the Strait of Gibraltar, proposed by the Munich architect Hermann Sörgel (1885–1952), would have created the largest hydroelectric facility in the world.
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Lions, Lords, and Automobiles: Animal Entertainment and Travel Technologies in the Late Twentieth Century
Automobiles fundamentally shifted the ways in which visitors to animal attractions experienced the creatures on display before their eyes.
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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.
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“The battle of geological experts”: Water Flow and Tunneling within a Welsh Mountain
This article discusses controversy over drainage tunnels in a Welsh lead mining region in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
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The Watering of California's Central Valley
The agricultural landscape of California was based on a complex system of aqueducts that created the illusion of “normal” climatic variation.
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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.
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The Origins of Ecocide: Revisiting the Ho Chi Minh Trail in the Vietnam War
The Vietnam War introduced a new language for the environmental impacts of modern warfare, and 50 years later, profound long-term consequences for people and nature remain.
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Nuclear Ghosts and the Atomic Landscape of the American South
“Nuclear Ghosts” explores the history of the Tennessee Valley Authority’s failed nuclear power project in rural Tennessee, the enviro-technological controversy the plant generated, and why nuclear power was seen as a threat not only to lives but also a way of life, one intimately connected to the American South’s culture and environment.