Climate Change

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Image of earth covered in trees and water
"Pale Blue Dot": History of Our Environment
President George Bush signing deregulation papers with gas company employees looking on
Texas, Enron, and Energy Monopolies
view looking up into treetops
Climate Change: Insights from History
NASA marks Earth Day’s 50th anniversary.
“Give Earth a Chance”: Earth Day and the Politics of Modern Environmentalism
Rainforest scars from illegal mining and deforestation.
The Amazon Rainforest under Threat
Glacier cutting through rock
World Population
A rhino standing on the beach
The Sixth Extinction and Our Unraveling World
Haze obscuring image of rooftops in China
The Greening of China?
wind turbines
Energy Policy: How is the “Long Transition” from Fossil Fuels Doing?
cracks in the ground due to drought
Paris, and Existential Global Challenges
Glacial ice on Lake Baikal
Climate Change and Human Life
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?
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The Best in History Online – "Exploring Environmental History Podcast"
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
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
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
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