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The Niagara Telecolorimeter
The creation of the Niagara Telecolorimeter helped engineers physically remake Niagara Falls in the mid-twentieth century.
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The Lake That Became a Bus Terminus
This article investigates the transformation of Bangalore’s Dharmambudhi lake into the central bus terminus.
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Mountain, Militarized: North Korea, Nuclear Tests, and Nature
This essay examines North Korea’s 2017 nuclear test as an example of how the Korean peninsula’s landscapes became militarized.
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Breeding for the Future: Corn and Climate Change
Climate change impacts both the goals of corn breeders, and their current everyday research.
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Environmental Writing in Times of Terrorism: The Peruvian Journalist Bárbara D’Achille
In the 1980s, Bárbara d’Achille traveled through Peru as one of the country’s first environmental writers and activists.
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Living on Coral Time: Debating Conservation in the Anthropocene
Coral scientists are dealing with an existential crisis and are divided between hope and despair in their approaches to coral conservation.
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American Champion Trees and the Wye Oak of Maryland
The surprising pedigree of a botanical idea.
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The 1971 Prague Conference on Problems Related to Environment—A Forgotten Contribution to International Environmentalism
In 1971, the UN Economic Commission for Europe holds a pioneering international conference on Problems Related to Environment.
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Searching for Stability: Energy, Entropy, and the Abandoning of the Panatomic Canal
Scientists work to deploy atomic energy in Panama, but fail to overcome the country’s entropic environment.
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Methodological Benefits of a GIS Map: The Example of the Eldgjá Eruption of the Late 930s CE and the Reliability of Historical Documents
The Eldgjá eruption in Iceland in the late 930s CE seems to have had tremendous repercussions. Only a few historical documents were written during the time in question.