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Environment

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buildings in ancient Rome on fire
The Great Fire of Rome
view of the site of the explosion in Tunguska
The Tunguska Mystery Explosion
penguin standing on sand at a beach with a plant and ocean behind it
Early Encounters with Penguins
Nuuk, Greenland skyline with the aurora borealis.
Greenland Fantasies
Women from Jericho's Palestinian refugee camp going to fetch water, 1961.
An Environmental “Nakba”: Water, Trees, and Farms as Tools of Israeli Policy Toward Palestine
Exterior view of the Union Carbide pesticide factory in Bhopal, India,
The Bhopal Chemical Gas Disaster
fire at plant in Bhopal in background people lost in the fire
Remembering Bhopal: The World's Worst Industrial Disaster
Ippolito Caffi's Eclisse di sole alle Fondamenta, Nove 1842, a solar eclipse and people standing on a shore looking up at it
Solar Eclipses in American History
The Fire of Rome, 18 July 64 AD, Oil on Canvas, Robert Hubert, 1785. In the Musee des Beaux-Arts Andre Malraux; Le Havre, France.
The Great Fire of Rome
A Nuclear Power Plant in the Untied Kingdom against a blue sky.
How Green Is the Atom?
Bob Campbell Photograph Of Dian Fossey Filming Orphaned Gorillas Coco And Pucker, Rwanda 1969, Bob Campbell
Gorillas in the Mist: The Life and Legacy of Dian Fossey
Ruins of Chorrillos after the battle of January 13, 1881. Photograph by Eugene Courret. Glass Plate. National Library of Peru Collection.
The War of the Pacific and the Fate of South America
The Statue of Liberty during the June 10, 2021 solar eclipse.
Solar Eclipses in American History
Wrangell-St Elias Natl Park by CheWei Chang, Flickr, CC BY-ND 2.0
America’s National Parks: 10 Moments of Insight
a woman wearing old pilot goggles on her head and holding a bottle of Coca-Cola
Country Capitalism: How Corporations from the American South Remade Our Economy and the Planet
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

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