Explorers of the Canadian Arctic misrepresented the land as a snowscape while tundra plants were simultaneously collected for botanic collections.
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.
In the 1960s, real-time aerial observations supported mixed forms of land use in African national parks.
“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.
Making more beer for eighteenth-century London’s growing population increased the need for clean water. Efforts to guarantee supplies to the brewers had an effect on both urban and rural landscapes.
At the 1873 Viennese World’s Fair, the botanist Friedrich Haberlandt became enchanted with the vision of integrating soyfoods into European diets as a cheap source of protein.
Virtual water is heralded as the solution to freshwater scarcity and overconsumption, but it oversimplifies global water flows.
The creation of the Niagara Telecolorimeter helped engineers physically remake Niagara Falls in the mid-twentieth century.
Scientists work to deploy atomic energy in Panama, but fail to overcome the country’s entropic environment.
This article investigates the problem of defining technological change based on environmental sustainability criteria in Galicia.
