science

Over time, the peoples living in Latin America’s diverse landscapes have developed complex and varied ways of understanding the world around them. For much of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the main goal of the sciences was to keep Latin America’s “prodigal” landscapes as productive as possible. Since the mid-twentieth century, a new countercurrent has emerged, which focuses on using science to conserve biological diversity, and to promote sustainability.

This article looks at three approaches through history of humans to birds.

This article looks at how scientific theories—in particular those of South African statesman Jan Smuts—sought to reorient the position of Africa in a global, historic hierarchy.

This article looks at how environmental life histories have been used for particular purposes.

This article is a critique of Daniel Lord Smail’s book On Deep History and the Brain.

This article is the abstract of a scientific study on healing vs. non-healing environments. The experiment used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to record brain activity while participants visualized different environments.

This study brings together research in a variety of disciplines to reconstruct the history of mining in Schwaz, Tirol.

The Anthropocene emphasizes that all of us are collectively responsible for the future of the world. Society will have to legitimize science and technology, focusing in particular on education as one of the most powerful tools for transformation, in order to make the Anthropocene long-lasting, equitable, and worth-living.