AbstractInsect-inspired algorithms have broad appeal in artificial intelligence (AI). They power the labeling, selection, and grouping of data from the past, including the human past. Insect-inspired ...

AbstractThis article takes a long-term view of the history of Kenya’s wildlife, to consider the gradual defaunation of wildlife that took place over the first half of the twentieth century. In the Bar...

AbstractThis article explores the historical emergence of the Danube Delta as part of the larger story of hydro-modernity—that is, the creation of political and scientific representations of dynamic l...

Abstract Environmentalists have long seen in the watershed the promise of an ethic of stewardship predicated on the recognition that no action affecting a waterway can be free from upstream influences...

Abstract This article reexamines the early history of reforestation in postwar South Korea, focusing on the 1950s, a decade typically overshadowed by the authoritarian tree-planting campaigns of the P...

Abstract People interacted with birds and created ecological knowledge about them while enslaved and during the transition to emancipation from 1848 onward in the Danish colony of St. Croix. These Bla...

Abstract This article argues that the early modern Spanish tuna fisheries were a compelling maritime cultural theater in which species, calendars, and cultural practices collided. Combining the accoun...

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Abstract In 1990, video game publisher Maxis released SimEarth. Designed by Will Wright, the game tasked users to consider atmospheric, geologic, and biological variables to simulate a global system. ...

Abstract The process of creating archaeological heritage sites is necessarily rooted in the environments that surround them. This was particularly true for the Maya archaeological site of Quiriguá, lo...

Abstract By the summer of 1974, David Brower had turned his environmental organization Friends of the Earth into a leading proponent of global environmentalism. However, after returning from the secon...

Abstract This article examines notions of rising seas in the early modern Dutch Republic and explores how Dutch water management spurred efforts to think and act across scales. Focusing on a 1731 repo...

Abstract This article argues that first the British, then the Indian, and especially the Chinese states extended their control over the upper Brahmaputra River’s waters in Tibet and the Himalaya, marg...

Abstract In the 1980s, women in Oregon, Texas, and New Jersey organized the first “citizen beach cleanups,” directing volunteers to not simply clean up but collate data on the number and type of trash...

Abstract In December 1942, teachers and Japanese Americans at the Tule Lake Relocation Center created a scrapbook for Elmer Shirrell, the camp’s outgoing director. The scrapbook reveals Tule Lake teac...

Abstract This article brings together a history of more-than-human sensory life across the multitude of underwater environments that shaped knowledge of and concern about the effects of anthropogenic ...

Abstract This article focuses on the extensive, low-lying mangrove forests in the lower Gangetic Delta, commonly called the Sundarbans, in the early decades of the nineteenth century. The English East...

Abstract This article highlights the necessity of historicizing wetland ecologies in order to understand the history of zoonotic disease in modern China. It examines how increasing commercial cultivat...

Abstract This article examines the rise of off-road motorcycling in California and argues that the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) became, in effect, the “Bureau of Livestock and Motorcycles” in the l...

Abstract Between the late sixteenth and early eighteenth centuries, waves of cooling associated with the Little Ice Age increased the thickness and extent of sea ice across the Greenland Sea, a vast e...

Abstract In the late 1980s, South Carolina tried to curb its accelerating erosion problems with the Beachfront Management Act (BMA), but economic interests ultimately overrode environmentalist concern...

Abstract This essay traces the conceptual history of biodiversity and ecosystem services from the late 1970s to the early 2000s. In contrast to recent historical studies that have interpreted biodiver...

This article uses two moments from the history of ivory to examine the shared histories of mammoths and elephants. The first came in the late nineteenth century, when mammoth ivory was proposed as a s...