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Environment

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Herd of horses on desert-steppe
A Postcard from Eastern Kazakhstan
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
melting Wedgemount Glacier
World Population
Tanks rolling off a German assembly line in 1943
The Nature of World War II
An artist's rendering of the Tunguska event
The 1908 Tunguska Event and the Threats of Tomorrow
a Galapagos sea turtle swimming in the ocean
What’s “Natural” on the Galapagos Islands?
A 1950s flyer describing fluoride as rat poison, the polio vaccine as a communist conspiracy to bring about socialized medicine, and mental health as a Jewish plot to imprison anti-Semites in insane asylums.
Toxic Treatment: Fluoride's Transformation from Industrial Waste to Public Health Miracle
coast of Maine
Environment: Today and Yesterday
A rhino standing on the beach
The Sixth Extinction and Our Unraveling World
The Biosphere 2 complex is an earth system science research facility near Tucson, AZ.
Colonizing Mars: Practicing Other Worlds on Earth
Tiger
Caged: Humans and Animals at the Zoo

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