Environment

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A woman on the outskirts of Kyiv carrying a bucket of apricots
Eating at You: Food and Chernobyl
These false killer whales were part of an MSE in Flinders Bay, Australia, July of 1986.
Washed Ashore: Marine Mammals from Medieval Times to Today
wind turbines
Energy Policy: How is the “Long Transition” from Fossil Fuels Doing?
The Cornalvo Dam, near the city of Mérida in Spain.
Top Ten Origins: Dams
Top view of person serving themself a rice dish from a table of food
Food for Thought: Diet in History
cracks in the ground due to drought
Paris, and Existential Global Challenges
Dian Fossey with mountain gorilla.
Dian Fossey: Conservationist in the Mist
Glacial ice on Lake Baikal
Climate Change and Human Life
Portion of DisasterHistory.org timeline.
Best in History Online: Disaster History
President Theodore Roosevelt helped solidify conservation as a national agenda item along with preservationist John Muir.
Executive Conservation
Glacial melt from Myrdalsjökull glacier in the south (jökull means glacier in Icelandic). Note the alluvial cones formed by volcanic ash and sediment.
A Postcard from Reykjavik: Iceland’s Volcanic History
melting glaciers
Top Ten Origins: Climate Change
From the 2011 UN Climate Change Conference in Durban, South Africa.
Top Ten Origins: Climate Change
Hurricane Elena photographed from Space Shuttle Discovery, September 1, 1985
Rough Weather Ahead
Lake Oroville, California, 2014.
The West without Water: What Can Past Droughts Tell Us About Tomorrow?
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