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Views from Above: Light Airplanes and Wildlife Research and Management in the Serengeti during the 1950s and 1960s
In the 1960s, real-time aerial observations supported mixed forms of land use in African national parks.
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The Natural Ice Factory at Røsneshamn, Norway: How to Compete with Big-Tech by Using Nature
This article looks at how a fossil-fuel-based artificial ice producer challenged a competitor using renewable and sustainable resources.
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Water, Firewood, and Disease in Nineteenth-Century Istanbul
This article looks at extreme droughts in Istanbul to understand the nineteenth-century changes in the Ottoman State.
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The Typhoid Epidemic in Philippopolis, 1878
A brief narration about typhoid disease in the postwar Balkan city Philippopolis.
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The Enemy is Nature: Military Machines and Technological Bricolage in Britain’s “Great Agricultural Experiment”
Cobbled-together machines are turned loose on nature in a desperate bid to coax peanuts from the soils of Tanganyika Territory.
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Cleansing the Sacred Habitat in the Time of Coronavirus: Buddhist Sang Rituals in Sikkim in Response to the 2020 Covid-19 Pandemic
The Riwo Sangchö is a Buddhist purification ritual that has become popular in response to the Coronavirus in Sikkim, India.
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Plastic Milk Bags and the Abandonment of a Hungarian Wood Pasture
The introduction of plastic milk bags transformed parts of the Hungarian landscape.
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Rat Tech: Transforming Rodents into Technology in Tanzania
In Tanzania, those who consider rats technology envision nature as being transformed through social practices that rework environmental histories.
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Mining and Environmental Destruction in Minas Gerais: A Historical Comparison
Historical documents indicate that the disasters caused by mining in Brazil are a reality since the eighteenth century.
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Memories from the Disaster in 2004 of the Ship Vicuña
The ship accident of Vicuña is considered one of the biggest disasters that occurred on the Brazilian coast of Paraná, Brazil.