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Does the creation of space debris mean that humanity has extended the “industrial sphere” into near-Earth space? Historian Lisa Ruth Rand, A PhD candidate at the University of Pennsylvania, discusses this question on episode 67 of Exploring Environmental History. She also examines why environmental historians should study the expansion of humanity beyond earth and other space environmental history related issues.

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The UK National Grid: history of an energy landscape and its impacts

Published: March 6, 2015, 2:10 a.m.
Duration: 25 minutes 1 second

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Environmental history of a hydrological landscape: the soughs of Derbyshire

Published: Feb. 11, 2015, 6:48 a.m.
Duration: 22 minutes 31 seconds

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Tin: a historical perspective on a networked resource

Published: Jan. 24, 2015, 1:08 p.m.
Duration: 34 minutes 21 seconds

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Climate variability and population dynamics in prehistoric Australia

Published: Oct. 27, 2014, 12:28 a.m.
Duration: 25 minutes 1 second

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Who is responsible for global warming?

Published: Sept. 22, 2014, 10:58 a.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 28 seconds

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The Broken Promise of Agricultural Progresss

Published: Aug. 14, 2014, 12:20 a.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 37 seconds

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Origins, entanglements and civic aims of the early forestry movement in the United States

Published: May 27, 2014, 3:55 a.m.
Duration: 34 minutes 41 seconds

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A sustainable common future? The Brundtland Report in historical perspective

Published: Feb. 20, 2014, 12:18 p.m.
Duration: 35 minutes 21 seconds

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Environmental Humanities: something new under the sun?

Published: Jan. 18, 2014, 10:33 a.m.
Duration: 26 minutes 46 seconds

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Events in the collective environmental memory of humanity

Published: Dec. 18, 2013, 1:43 p.m.
Duration: 25 minutes 1 second

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The power of the wild

Published: Nov. 25, 2013, 1:07 a.m.
Duration: 25 minutes 56 seconds

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The nature of South African environmental history

Published: Nov. 19, 2013, 4:34 a.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 1 second

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The IPCCs Fifth Assessment Report: a historical perspective

Published: Oct. 3, 2013, 1:18 a.m.
Duration: 26 minutes 9 seconds

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Desire for the Wild – Wild Desires? The trouble with rewilding

Published: Sept. 28, 2013, 3 a.m.
Duration: 25 minutes 31 seconds

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Scientific and environmental diplomacy and the Antarctic

Published: Sept. 18, 2013, 2:06 a.m.
Duration: 34 minutes 33 seconds

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The Scottish forestry experience and the development of forestry in India

Published: April 4, 2013, 12:16 p.m.
Duration: 32 minutes 57 seconds

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Conquering the Highlands. History of the afforestation of the Scottish uplands

Published: March 26, 2013, 10:06 a.m.
Duration: 30 minutes 54 seconds

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Kielder: the story of a man-made landscape

Published: Feb. 22, 2013, 1:40 a.m.
Duration: 25 minutes 12 seconds

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Remaking wetlands: a tale of rice, ducks and floods in the Murrumbidgee River region

Published: Dec. 5, 2012, 1:26 a.m.
Duration: 34 minutes 14 seconds

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Canine City: Dogs and Humans in Urban History

Published: Nov. 20, 2012, 12:40 a.m.
Duration: 26 minutes 8 seconds

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Explorations in historical climatology

Published: July 24, 2012, 4:57 a.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 40 seconds

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Medicinal plants in New Zealand: bridging the gap between medical and environmental history

Published: June 19, 2012, 2:47 a.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 24 seconds

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Silent Spring at 50: a comparison perspective

Published: Dec. 21, 2011, 1:25 p.m.
Duration: 25 minutes 21 seconds

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A transformed landscape: the steppes of Ukraine and Russia

Published: July 27, 2011, 12:44 p.m.
Duration: 33 minutes 29 seconds

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Teaching and discovering environmental history online

Published: July 11, 2011, 3:40 p.m.
Duration: 21 minutes 26 seconds

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Energy utopia or dystopia? - A historical perspective on nuclear energy

Published: April 7, 2011, 5:55 a.m.
Duration: 26 minutes 59 seconds

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Reframing a vision of lost fens

Published: Dec. 18, 2010, 10:31 p.m.
Duration: 19 minutes 23 seconds

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Slavery, fossil fuel use and climate change: past connections, present similarities

Published: Dec. 8, 2010, 8:54 p.m.
Duration: 24 minutes 30 seconds

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The draining of the East Anglia Fens: social unrest, design flaws and unintended environmental consequences

Published: Oct. 6, 2010, 3:40 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 15 seconds

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The First World War and the transformation of forestry in British Columbia

Published: July 19, 2010, 9:48 a.m.
Duration: 19 minutes 41 seconds

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Island Environmental Histories: the Ogasawara Islands

Published: July 9, 2010, 10:48 a.m.
Duration: 26 minutes 4 seconds

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Mountains, the Asiatic Black Bear and conservation in Japan and New Zealand

Published: May 20, 2010, 1 p.m.
Duration: 24 minutes 32 seconds

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Volcanoes in European history

Published: April 17, 2010, 8:40 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 56 seconds

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Distance learning environmental history and Scottish forestry

Published: April 7, 2010, 12:27 p.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 46 seconds

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Empire and Environmental Anxiety

Published: March 6, 2010, 4:55 p.m.
Duration: 21 minutes 57 seconds

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Environmental History of the 2012 Olympic site: The Lower River Lea

Published: Feb. 10, 2010, 11:27 a.m.
Duration: 26 minutes 1 second

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Green Colonialism in Zimbabwe

Published: Jan. 7, 2010, 5:17 a.m.
Duration: 21 minutes 30 seconds

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Historical climatology and the cultural memory of extreme weather events

Published: Dec. 11, 2009, 10:25 a.m.
Duration: 19 minutes 41 seconds

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Environmental history of the Middle Ages

Published: Nov. 26, 2009, 2:10 p.m.
Duration: 22 minutes 22 seconds

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Biological invasions, culture and biodiversity in South Africa

Published: Nov. 4, 2009, 9:50 a.m.
Duration: 24 minutes 24 seconds

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Biological invasions and transformations in history

Published: Oct. 12, 2009, 11:43 a.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 52 seconds

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Environmental history: an applied science

Published: Sept. 7, 2009, 8:55 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 51 seconds

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Environmental history: a transatlantic perspective

Published: June 29, 2009, 9:08 a.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 10 seconds

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Environmental history: definitions, methods and challenges

Published: June 9, 2009, 7:27 p.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 18 seconds

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Donald Worster on environmental history

Published: May 26, 2009, 9:26 a.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 8 seconds

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Disasters, history and cultures of coping

Published: Nov. 26, 2008, 4:16 p.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 24 seconds

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Great Floods of Northumbria, 1771-2008

Published: Nov. 21, 2008, 10:11 a.m.
Duration: 19 minutes 37 seconds

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Environmental histories of settlement in Canada and New Zealand

Published: July 10, 2008, 6:29 p.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 23 seconds

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Artifact or natural? The history of Flanders Moss in Scotland

Published: May 19, 2008, 10:30 p.m.
Duration: 19 minutes 51 seconds

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Archaeology, History and Climate Change

Published: April 11, 2008, 11:39 a.m.
Duration: 17 minutes 31 seconds

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Urban air pollution in historical perspective

Published: Feb. 16, 2008, 12:15 p.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 58 seconds

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The environmental shadow of apartheid and rinderpest

Published: Dec. 15, 2007, 3:01 p.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 3 seconds

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Botanists, colonists and local knowledge of nature in South Africa

Published: Nov. 29, 2007, 10:11 a.m.
Duration: 26 minutes 31 seconds

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The ozone hole, climate change and the Canadian Arctic

Published: Oct. 7, 2007, 6:51 p.m.
Duration: 21 minutes 14 seconds

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History and sustainability

Published: Sept. 15, 2007, 12:30 p.m.
Duration: 31 minutes

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Humanities, Climate Change and Digital (Environmental) History

Published: Aug. 7, 2007, 10:03 p.m.
Duration: 33 minutes 30 seconds

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Environmental Connections: Europe and the Wider World

Published: June 14, 2007, 12:36 a.m.
Duration: 41 minutes 28 seconds

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Scottish Environmental History

Published: May 24, 2007, 9:52 a.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 56 seconds

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Australian environmental and forest history

Published: Jan. 26, 2007, 9 a.m.
Duration: 30 minutes 28 seconds

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Climate history and a forest journey

Published: Dec. 9, 2006, 6:10 p.m.
Duration: 30 minutes 10 seconds

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Marine Environmental History

Published: Oct. 25, 2006, 11:23 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 28 seconds

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History of flood defences and waste

Published: July 22, 2006, 10:25 p.m.
Duration: 17 minutes 49 seconds

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Resources, the past and the present

Published: May 24, 2006, 12:16 a.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 52 seconds

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Rivers run through them: Landscapes in environmental history

Published: April 10, 2006, 3:50 p.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 51 seconds

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Themes in environmental history

Published: March 16, 2006, 2:20 p.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 2 seconds

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What is environmental history?

Published: March 2, 2006, 9 p.m.
Duration: 17 minutes 38 seconds

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