Reading Time: 5 minutesThe virtual landscapes found in video games can be breathtaking wonders, terrifying and treacherous ruins that make players’ hearts race, or just a cross section of soil strata players can navigate with a pickaxe.
Environmental History Now.
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The International Regime on Climate Change: On Differentiated Responsibilities and Respective Capabilities
Reading Time: 8 minutesTo understand the politics of climate change and international efforts to address the issue, there is a concept of paramount importance: the principle of common but differentiated responsibilities and respective capabilities (CBDRRC).
A Healing Hillock, or a True “Magic Mountain”? On Defining the Locations of Tuberculosis Treatment
Reading Time: 6 minutesTuberculosis in the nineteenth century was a big business in the British Empire. With the development of mineral spa towns in Australia, the promulgation of localities deemed to be the most suitable for the treatment of tuberculosis “meant there was no slow accretion of legend or folk medicine… it was always self-consciously scientific” in how sites were appraised and described.
Nation, Toxicity, and Care: Exploring Chemical Kinship in Cuba’s Latest Environmental Disaster
Reading Time: 7 minutesEarlier this month, Cuba experienced what will enter its history as one of the worst environmental catastrophes ever to take place on the island.
“East Meets West” in a Wardian Case
Reading Time: 7 minutesI am walking in a Wardian Case. Above the historic West India docks, above the newly opened Elizabeth line, yet dwarfed by the skyscrapers that crowd the dockland horizon of east London.
