Environment

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ship on waterway that is polluted with oil spill
Water Crisis on the Blue Planet: What Water’s Past tells us about Humanity’s Future
Albert Bierstadt, Mount Corcoran, c. 1876-1877, oil on canvas
Silent Spring Revolution, a Conversation with Douglas Brinkley
The ruins of Cassino, May 1944 - a wrecked Sherman tank and Bailey bridge in the foreground, with Monastery Ridge and Castle Hill
The Nature of World War II
advertisement with bi-plane dusting over a field and two farmers talking about it
Remembering Rachel Carson’s "Silent Spring"
Advertisement for DDT featured in Time Magazine, June 30, 1947. This image illustrates the rosy reputation that pesticides enjoyed before the publication of Silent Spring.
A World Drenched with Pesticides: Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring
polar bear stepping off the ice
Killing the Arctic – Human Impact on the Arctic
cars on a highway
Sweet Fuel: The Remarkable Story of Brazilian Ethanol
And Water for All - stylized image of hands with water behind them
... And Water for All
seedlings
Seed Money: Monsanto's Past and Our Food Future
Herd of horses on desert-steppe
A Postcard from Eastern Kazakhstan
Image of earth covered in trees and water
"Pale Blue Dot": History of Our Environment
A nuclear power plant located on the Rhine at night.
The Unkept Promise of Nuclear Power
Two Nord Stream pipes are welded together on the Castoro Sei pipelaying vessel in preparation for laying them beneath the Baltic Sea, 2011.
The Environmental Threat of Russia’s Nord Stream 2 Pipeline
A polar bear steps off an ice slab.
Killing the Arctic
view looking up into treetops
Climate Change: Insights from History
Bird on rock outcrop in Galapagos Islands
What’s “Natural” on the Galapagos Islands?
A painting by Siu Luna.
Another Silent Spring
American Dreams at Little Duck Key.
The American Dream after COVID-19
man standing my large container of fish with ocean and mountains in background
It’s the Factors of Life: Abiotic and Biotic Factors of Biomes
bus with sign on side reading Soybean Powered, This bus runs on soybean bio-diesel
The Bottom of the Barrel: The Long Transition of Energy in America
Cañón Silfra, Parque Nacional de Þingvellir, Suðurland, Islandia
Divergent Plate Boundaries: The Earth is Tearing Itself Apart
NASA marks Earth Day’s 50th anniversary.
“Give Earth a Chance”: Earth Day and the Politics of Modern Environmentalism
Sculpture of Donald Trump ripping up the Paris climate agreement.
Dirty Water: Federal Deregulation and the Re-Polluting of America
Rainforest scars from illegal mining and deforestation.
The Amazon Rainforest under Threat