Cobbled-together machines are turned loose on nature in a desperate bid to coax peanuts from the soils of Tanganyika Territory.
When a tornado strikes Worcester, Massachusetts, residents suspect the disaster is the work of an unlikely culprit—the atomic bomb.
Explorers of the Canadian Arctic misrepresented the land as a snowscape while tundra plants were simultaneously collected for botanic collections.
An invasive mollusk called the shipworm (Teredo navalis) attacked coastal dikes in the Netherlands in the 1730s, leading to changes in the design of dikes.
Humans have a long history of meddling in the oil palm’s sex life.
In 1997 and 1998 peat swamp forests burned in Borneo, Indonesia, spewing big amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
This article examines how issues of representation and aesthetics have impacted the environmental history of early modern Europe.
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.
This article shows how rural collective action in tropical Australia transformed plantations into small farms in the late nineteenth century.
This article examines the implementation of the Gösgen Nuclear Power Plant in Switzerland, as well as its surrounding controversies.
