Environmental History

Peter Monteath recalls what happened when two explorers, whose nations were battling for supremacy, met on the other side of the world.

Devra Davis looks at the London Smog disaster of 1952-53.

Continuing our History and the Environment series, Harriet Ritvo looks at the role of big-game hunting in spreading awareness of the need for conservation

Tom Griffiths continues our series on History and the Environment, travelling into the longue durée of the Australian past.

Philip Stott unravels the emergence of myths about the tropical rain forests.

David Lowenthal introduces our new series on History and the Environment with an overview of the subject and of human interaction with the world we inhabit.

Charles Maechling argues that the Japanese attack, which took place on December 7th 1941, was partly a response to the country's limited energy resources.

Bruce Campbell argues that a unique conjunction of human and environmental factors went into creating the crisis of the mid-14th century.