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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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Plastic China
A woman and her family live next to a recycling plant in China, in mountains of plastic waste from Asia, Europe, and the U.S.This documentary reveals the lives of those on the fringes of global capitalist realities, a far cry from the communist dream.
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Alternative Futures: India Unshackled
Alternative Futures brings together 35 essays on India’s future, written by a diverse set of authors: activists, researchers, media persons, those who have influenced policies, and those working at the grassroots. Divided into four sections—Ecological Futures, Political Futures, Economic Futures, and Socio-Cultural Futures—the book covers a wide range of issues including environmental governance, biodiversity, democracy and power, law, agriculture, pastoralism, industry, languages, learning and education, knowledge, health and sexuality among others.
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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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Birds in Our Lives
Birds in Our Lives is an account of bird conservation in India, written by conservationist Ashish Kothari. It educates the reader on the importance of birds in Indian culture and economy and highlights the imminent threats to their habitats and populations, as well as growing efforts to conserve birdlife.
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Practicing Relativism in the Anthropocene: On Science, Belief, and the Humanities
Practicing Relativism in the Anthropocene addresses a set of contemporary issues involving knowledge and science from a constructivist-pragmatist perspective often labeled “relativism.”
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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.