Environment

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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
A refugee camp holding thousands of displaced Darfurians/Sudanese in the aftermath of war in the western part of Sudan.
'The World's Worst Humanitarian Crisis': Understanding the Darfur Conflict
man with giant crab
A Tale of Two Fisheries: Fishing and Over-Fishing in American Waters
Firefighters working on the San Diego wildfires in 2007.
San Diego’s Natural Disaster Wasn’t Entirely Natural
A bison in Yellowstone National Park.
Why the Buffalo Still Roam
Botanic Blooming sagebrush on the great plains
Why the Great Plains Are Dying
San Francisco earthquake 1906
San Francisco 1906 and Katrina 2005: The Increasing Costs of Unpreparedness
Herbert Hoover
We Could Use a Man like Herbert Hoover Again
John Muir, the founder of the Sierra Club.
Conservation — An American, and Republican, Tradition
Cygnet, Ohio, in Wood County was a booming oil town with 13 saloons and many workers when this photo was taken in 1885.
An Energy Plan for You!