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From Crisis to Action: The 1972 Myrtea Oil Spill in the Singapore Strait
This article explors the 1972 Myrtea oil spill in the Singapore Strait, its environmental impact, and subsequent policy changes.
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Peat-Powered Berlin: The Role of Peat in the Urban Energy Transition in the Mid-Nineteenth Century
Peat was a widely used fuel in mid-nineteenth-century Berlin that acted as a bridge in the energy transition between firewood and coal.
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What Living in Space Teaches Us about Living on Earth
To live among the stars always meant solving the down-to-earth problem of sustainable waste management.
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The Colonial Roots of the Kangaroo Controversy
This article situates contemporary debates over kangaroo-population management within Australia’s violent history of settler-colonial occupation and attendant environmental transformations.
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Turning Ash into Gold: The 1783 Mount Asama Eruption and the Tenmei Famine in Early Modern Japanese Satire
The 1783 Mount Asama eruption and the Tenmei Famine were reimagined through humor in early modern Japanese satire, revealing a world where rice, not riches, defined survival.
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Confidence in a Confidence Man: A Banana-Disease “Solution” in Late Colonial Jamaica
This article examines a “cure” for Panama disease in 1930s Jamaica, highlighting an attempt to profit off ecological vulnerability.
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“Cozy Families” or “Hideous Brutes”?—Working with Southern Elephant Seals on the French Kerguelen Islands
In 1908, Raymond Rallier du Baty and his crew struggled to reconcile their sympathy for elephant seals with their violence against them.
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Links Between State Power and Tree Species: Black Locust in Central Europe
The historical politicization of the invasive black locust in Hungary.
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Dunes, Development, and Delay: Climate Change Comes to Long Beach
An east-coast beachfront neighborhood faces a difficult decision about how to respond to storms and rising seas.
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Other-than-Human Survivance Against the Trent-Severn Waterway
Emerging from an Indigenous Nishnaabeg ontology, “survivance” calls for an understanding of other-than-human persons as agentially surviving and resisting colonial violence.