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Development and Degradation in the Lakes of Lapsista and Ioannina from the 1950s to the Present
With the drying of its sister lake for purposes of agricultural development, Pamvotis is suffering accelerating degradation.
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Methodological Benefits of a GIS Map: The Example of the Eldgjá Eruption of the Late 930s CE and the Reliability of Historical Documents
The Eldgjá eruption in Iceland in the late 930s CE seems to have had tremendous repercussions. Only a few historical documents were written during the time in question.
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Onions and Tires in Sodom and Gomorrah
Agbogbloshie (Ghana) is an unnerving and fascinating example of human ingenuity, but at the same time an environmental and social tragedy.
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“The battle of geological experts”: Water Flow and Tunneling within a Welsh Mountain
This article discusses controversy over drainage tunnels in a Welsh lead mining region in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
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What Does It Mean to Study Environments in Ukraine Now?
An essay on Russian imperialism and the entanglement of the geologic and the military.
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What Cannot Be Unearthed | Ghosh in Munich
Wan Yin Kim Fung’s “What Cannot Be Unearthed” is a sensitively told account that quite literally gives pause to the toxic fallout of nineteenth- and twentieth-century copper mining in eastern Japan. It was one of the two honorable mentions in the nonfiction category of the RCC environmental writing competition “Tell the Untold!”
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Castlemaine: Climate Change, Consciousness, and Art
This area attracted an exodus of youthful creative urban dwellers resettling the land with aims of self-sufficiency and communal living.