science

Why do we continue to talk about the debate over global warming as if it were a scientific controversy?

For nearly a century, we have relied increasingly on science and technology to harness natural forces, but at what environmental and social cost?

Simon Werrett, Carson Fellow from May to September 2011, talks about his research on ‘Recycling and the History of Science and Technology.’

Istvan Praet, Carson Fellow from July to December 2011, talks about the perception of catastrophes among the Chachi, the Amerindian inhabitants of Esmeraldas, a lowland region on the Pacific coast.

Reinhold Leinfelder, Affiliated Carson Professor as of 2012, speaks about his research concerning the Anthropocene.

Lawrence Culver, Carson Center fellow from June to December 2010, speaks about his research project “Manifest Disaster: Climate and the Making of America.”

Edmund P. Russell, a Carson Fellow from October 2010 to June 2011, speaks of his collaborative research with neuroscientists and interest in designing environments to promote well-being.

Three species of the family Mustelidae (stoats, weasels and ferrets) were initially introduced into New Zealand (and granted statutory protection) in an attempt to control a burgeoning rabbit population…

This essay explores the dynamics of failure to strike a solution to the problem of invasive species in the form of water hyacinth through an examination of the competing domains of bureaucracy, science and private commercial interests in a colonial context.