When the oil tanker Exxon Valdez runs aground on 24 March 1989, it releases 41.6 million tons of crude oil along the coast of Alaska. The spill causes enormous damage to local ecosystems and wildlife.
A comprehensive history of the development of Houston, examining the factors that have facilitated large-scale energy production and unprecedented growth—and the environmental cost of that development.
An on-the-ground view of working conditions in one of Chittagong’s shipbreaking yards provides insight into what happens to large ships at the end of their lives, and the people who dismantle them.
This article focuses on attempts, some experimental but all ultimately unsuccessful, to render Queensland’s Fitzroy River suitable for large-scale shipping by constructing ‘training’ walls and dredging intensively.
During the twentieth century, two different ways of relating with nature interacted in Panama…
