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Cryptids and Disasters: Serpents and a Werewolf in the Western Indian Ocean Region
In Tanzania and Mauritius, physical disasters are filtered through cultural lenses, including sightings of cryptids: serpents and a werewolf.
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Ecotourism with Hand Lenses and Astrotourism with Telescopes | From Hand Lenses to Telescopes
Sixth chapter of Ricardo Rozzi et al.’s virtual exhibition, From Hand Lenses to Telescopes: Exploring the Microcosm and Macrocosm in Chile’s Biocultural Laboratories.
Multimedia | book excerpt
A Perfect Storm in the Amazon Wilderness
Chapters from Timothy J. Killeen’s book A Perfect Storm in the Amazon Wilderness.
Multimedia | journal
Earth First! 25, no. 5
In Earth First! 25, no. 5 Turtle problematizes seal hunt in Canada, Sam and Sprocket refer to the dangers of cellphone communication, and Ron Huber explores the history of Earth First! treehuggers.
Exhibition chapter
Beyond the Exhibition | Ecopolis München 2019
Ecopolis München 2019: Environmental Stories of Discovery is an exhibition on Munich’s environmental histories. It showcases the final projects of students in the Environmental Studies Certificate Program of the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society. The stories told in this exhibition ask: to whom does the urban world belong and what do we want the urban environment of the future to look like?
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Flood Levels and Borderlines: Livestock Farming and Evictions Resistance at the !Garib/Orange River in Southern Africa
A farmer on the !Garib/Orange river in Namibia uses historical flood markers to challenge eviction in the post-apartheid landscape.
Multimedia | journal
Earth First! 26, no. 3
Earth First! 26, no. 3 reports from the buffalo field campaign in Montana, gives an account of the activists’ fight against governmental sanctions and the “criminalization of dissent,” and considers relations between the high cancer rates and the multitude of petrochemical plants in Louisiana.
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Hertz: Electromagnetic Waves
On November 11, 1886, Heinrich Hertz, the pioneer of high-frequency and radio technology, for the first time observed the propagation of an electromagnetic wave with this setup.
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Different Ways of Thinking Globally: The Unlikely Return of the Noosphere in Russian Environmental Discourses
What role does Vernadsky’s concept of the noosphere plays in contemporary Russian environmental legislation and green economy discourses?
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Earth First! Journal 31, no. 3
Earth First! Journal 31, no. 3 presents thoughts on jaguar recovery in the United States, ecocide and renewal in Iraq’s marshlands, South Florida forest defense work, and native land rights at Glen Cove.