Simon Werrett, Carson Fellow from May to September 2011, talks about his research on ‘Recycling and the History of Science and Technology.’
In this Springs article, history of technology professor Nina Wormbs explores how people justify acting unsustainably.
Frank Zelko dives into the history of teeth and shows that today’s teeth are the product of centuries of biocultural evolution.
In view of the escalating environmental crisis, the democratic states of the Global North must ecologically transform their social and constitutional orders.
In the nineteenth century, a water crisis in Rio de Janeiro resulted in the planting of forests, influencing the development of Brazil’s forestry policy and the emergence of tropical forestry.
Ukraine’s Dnipro River and nearby inhabitants have lived through brute-force environmental change and war over the last century.
This essay examines how military, technology, and nature converge in the Israeli griffon vulture project and what politics stand behind it.
This essay brings previously underexplored paths of political ecology, environmental history, and even biosemiotics and plant neurophysiology in Italo Calvino’s The Baron in the Trees (1957) to light.
This artistic contribution explores sensory engagement with contamination caused by oil-waste pits in the Ecuadorian Amazon.
The entwined history of legends, literature, limnology, and a Cold War nuclear power plant at Lake Stechlin in northeastern Germany.
