Environment

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Genoa Park along the west bank of the Scioto River in Columbus, Ohio, United States
12/29/2014: Cities of the Future
Martha last passenger pigeon
100 years have gone by... still no Passenger Pigeons
The Golubac Fortress was a medieval fortified town on the south side of the Danube River
A Postcard from Djerdap, Serbia
Cover of Rivers and the Power of Ancient Rome by Brian Campbell
Rome's Wondrous Rivers
Exploring Environmental History Podcast Logo
The Best in History Online – "Exploring Environmental History Podcast"
Photo of a deer
4/24/14: Memories of the Iron Curtain
The Nature of Childhood: An Environmental History of Growing Up in America since 1865 Book Cover
Play, Paranoia, and American Childhood in the Great Outdoors
Insects on white flowers
4/22/14: An Earth Day Round Up
Earth during the Ice Age
3/27/14: Climate Change, the Little Ice Age, and History
Splash of water
3/22/14: Happy World Water Day!
Photo of Earth
2/28/14: 21 Historical Events to Remember
The aurora borealis over the Arctic
Climate Change, Russia, and the Race for the Arctic
Hurricane Sandy Rockaway
Hurricane Sandy Should Inspire New Ways of Building and Living on the Seashore
The Humboldt Current: Nineteenth-Century Exploration and the Roots of American Environmentalism, by Aaron Sachs Book Cover
The Humboldt Current: Nineteenth-Century Exploration and the Roots of American Environmentalism
Spraying Pesticides - NARA 1940
Fifty Years After “Silent Spring,” Let’s Not Roll Back Environmental Protections
In 2007, Russia planted a titanium flag in the chilly arctic depths at the North Pole.
Russia and the Race for the Arctic
Canada's Athabasca Glacier.
Climate, Human Population and Human Survival: What the Deep Past Tells Us about the Future
In the last fifty years, global agricultural practices have favored growing ever fewer varieties of high-yielding crops, leading to fears that the loss of genetic diversity in food leaves the growing human population exposed to risks of food shortages from disease, pests, and climate change.
Conserving Diversity at the Dinner Table: Plants, Food Security, and Gene Banks
Oil and coal dominated U.S. energy production in the twentieth century.
Energy Policy and the Long Transition in America
Protesters demonstrate against nuclear power and a storage facility at Rokkasho following the March 2011 disaster at Japan's Fukushima I power plant, the worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl (1986).
'The Energy of a Bright Tomorrow': The Rise of Nuclear Power in Japan
A sign illustrating Level 5 Water Restrictions in Goulburn, New South Wales, 2006, during the worst of Australia's decade-long drought.
Dry Days Down Under: Australia and the World Water Crisis
A collection of packaged food items.
Feast and Famine: The Global Food Crisis
Images like these, of starving children and a malnourished population given to periodic famines, offer a human face to the long standing debate about whether India is "overpopulated" or "underdeveloped".
Population Bomb? The Debate over Indian Population
Carter’s “Crisis of Confidence” Speech.
How Carter’s “Crisis of Confidence” Speech Still Matters