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From Wilderness to Breeding Farms: The Domestication of the Chinchilla lanigera
When Mathias Chapman opened his first chinchilla breeding farm in Southern California, he also saved the fur trade industry.
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Philippe-Sirice Bridel, the Natural Landscape, and the Swiss National Sentiment
Philippe-Sirice Bridel’s youthful diary synthesizes the political and aesthetic issues related to nature, showing the environmental sensibility of the time.
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“his & nature’s expropriation”: Wetland Enclosure, Salvage Poetics, and Social Reproduction in Wendy Mulford’s East Anglia Sequence
Wendy Mulford’s poetry reflects on drainage, environmental loss, and social reproduction in the fens, reframing environmental history through a Marxist-feminist lens.
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Poles of Exploration and Exploitation: Olaudah Equiano in the Arctic
This essay proposes that Olaudah Equiano’s account of a 1773 Arctic voyage doubles as a critique of exploration and exploitation.
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Housing for a Changing Climate: The Commonwealth Environmental Building Station in 1950s Australia
Houses made from earth have historically shaped environmental thinking in Australia.
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Sight and Sound: Beyond the Huia Extinction Story
Beyond the 1907 Huia-extinction signposts, many voices, never silent, call for hearing as well as justice toward mending relations.
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The Equestrian Suburb of Latine Los Angeles
This article explores how Latine residents fashioned the identity and environment of the suburban community of Avocado Heights through equestrianism.
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River Rights at Rockhampton (a Rhetoric)
Rivers need property rights so that humans can live with floods.
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What Is a Fungus? Mycology’s Dada Moment
An article exploring the Dadaist undertones in fungal taxonomy.
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The Struggle for Air: Mining, Dust, and Death on the South African Rand
Underground mining on South Africa’s Rand transformed the air.