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The Lost Lakes of Bangalore
The urbanization of Bangalore transformed the once-strong relationship between communities and the lakes that they once created and maintained.
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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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Karabash: The City of Pollution
Karabash is one of the largest copper-smelting centers in Russia and open-pit copper extraction has been conducted there since 1837. In 1996, Karabash and its surrounding area were declared an ecological disaster zone. The city is still considered to be one of the most polluted places in the world.
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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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The Nuclear Disaster of Kyshtym 1957 and the Politics of the Cold War
In 1957 the third most severe nuclear accident in history happened in the Southern Urals, at the Soviet nuclear site “Mayak” near Kyshtym. For decades, almost no information about this incident reached the Western press—thanks to the CIA’s secrecy.
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“Yanqui Cotton Patch”: US Development Aid and Pesticide Use in Nicaragua
This article explores the impact of extensive pesticide use in Nicaragua after World War Two.
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Seed Oysters in Entangled Worlds: Ecological Disturbances, Knowledge Making, and Potentialities in Miyagi, Japan
This article focuses on the contingent practices that constitute oyster aquaculture in contemporary Japan and the multiple forms of more-than-human entanglements that emerge as a result.
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Cosmopolitan Trout: The 1883 Fisheries Exhibition and the Global Expansion of Fish Culture
Between 1875 and 1925, trout expanded beyond their native haunts to inhabit every corner of the globe. London’s Fisheries Exhibition in 1883 was a catalyst that ignited a transnational fish-culture revolution and turned trout into a cosmopolitan species.
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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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Onions and Tires in Sodom and Gomorrah
Agbogbloshie (Ghana) is an unnerving and fascinating example of human ingenuity, but at the same time an environmental and social tragedy.