In 1947, inhabitants of Yakutsk gained access to potable groundwater from below the permafrost layer for the first time.
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Combating malaria through travel, diet, natural remedies, and architecture in early modern England.
In 1980, Modena was the first city in Italy to introduce a law recognizing social urban allotments.
“Understanding the human implications of climate change,” the tagline of the Weather Matters hub, reveals it as a space for conversation among scholars and stakeholders concerned about climate change.
This film follows a young Liberian who returns to his post-war country with film footage which has the potential to push radical land reforms for sustainable community development.
The killing of possums as “pests” is framed as a caring relationship towards Aotearoa/New Zealand’s natural environment.
Die Natur der Gefahr traces the history of the Ohio river, its significance for trade and industry, and its flooding disasters between the late eighteenth century through to the twentieth century.
Natur und Industrie im Sozialismus challenges common conceptions that portray the environmental history of East Germany as one of decline, highlighting the existence of advocates of environmental measures within the socialist party.
Die Hamburger Sturmflut von 1962 is an in-depth historical study of the 1962 storm flood that devastated Hamburg and Germany. It compares the flood to others in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, while reflecting on the sociocultural and technological contexts of the time.
Weltmeere examines society’s relationship with the oceans in the nineteenth century, through subjects such as whale fishing, polar expeditions, the sea in literature and psychology, and marine studies.