Environment

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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
Person on horseback faces line of police and military vehicles
Native Sovereignty and the Dakota Access Pipeline
View of the Solovetskii Monastery.
A Postcard from Solovki
Haze obscuring image of rooftops in China
The Greening of China?
An abandoned building in Chernobyl
A Postcard from Chernobyl
Various sedimentary rock strata are visible in many areas of Badlands National Park.
Ten Moments of Insight in America’s National Parks