For most people in the United States, going almost anywhere begins with reaching for the car keys. This is true, Christo
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Cities are amongst our greatest creations. Yet at the start of the twenty-first century there is increasing concern over
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Because of their enormous size, elephants have long been irresistible for kings as symbols of their eminence. In early c
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Humanity is by many measures the biggest success story in the animal kingdom; but what are the costs of this triumph? Ov
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Stretching along 156 miles of Florida's East Coast, the Indian River Lagoon contains the St. Lucie estuary, the Mos
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As the very first book of its kind, An Environmental History of Medieval Europe provides a highly original survey of med
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The Crimean Peninsula has a rich and complex environmental history. The Black Sea in particular has had a major impact o
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The former Soviet empire spanned eleven time zones and contained half the world's forests; vast deposits of oil, ga
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