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Thermal plasticity is independent of environmental history in an intertidal seaweed [PDF]

Ecology and Evolution, 2019
Organisms inhabiting the intertidal zone have been used to study natural ecophysiological responses and adaptations to thermal stress because these organisms are routinely exposed to high‐temperature conditions for hours at a time.
Sophie J. McCoy, Stephen Widdicombe
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Lipid consumption in coral larvae differs among sites: a consideration of environmental history in a global ocean change scenario. [PDF]

Proc Biol Sci, 2017
Rivest EB, Chen CS, Fan TY, Li HH, Hofmann GE.   +4 more
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Comfort in Australia’s Unproductive North and the Attendant Anxiety of Tropical Cyclones

ABE Journal, 2021
In 1922, the Commonwealth Bank opened in Cairns, North Queensland, on the corner of Abbott and Spence Street, not far from the Esplanade and the waters of the Trinity Inlet.
Deborah van der Plaat
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Urban Everyday Life and Electrification in Context of Fuel Crises in First Quarter of 20th Century

Научный диалог, 2023
The article examines the social response to the introduction of new electric technologies (street lighting and trams) in cities, as well as the limitations on their use during periods of fuel crises. The concepts of “energy transition” and “shift towards
A. B. Agafonova
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Representing Environmental Emergency as Social Emergency: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 in Blues Songs from Louisiana and Mississippi

E-REA, 2021
The Great 1927 Flood ranks as the worst environmental disaster in American history. In the early 20th century, Mississippi floods had been worsening as the levee system progressed, in a period when the development of industrial plantations required the ...
Stéphanie DENÈVE
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Gender, environment and history: New methods and approaches in environmental history

, 2021
We are far from the first, and expect we will not be the last, to wonder at the paucity of research on women, gender and sexuality in (Anglophone) environmental history.
Morgan, RA, Cook, M, Cook, Margaret, Morgan, Ruth A.   +3 more
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Environmental History and World History

Historia provinciae: журнал региональной истории, 2018
This paper deals with three major aspects of world environmental historiography. Firstly, based on a bird’s-eye view of the world environmental historiography, the ‘received wisdoms’ were deconstructed.
Bao Maohong
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Forgotten whales, fading codfish: Perceptions of ‘natural’ ecosystems inform visions of future recovery

People and Nature, 2023
Perceptions of past ecological change affect views of current ecosystem state, but how do baselines help to shape stakeholders' visions of an idealized future?
Loren McClenachan, Benjamin Neal
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Innovation opportunities in irrigation technology for using virtual water in 21st Century South Africa: Reflections from the past to the present

Contree, 2011
In 21st century South Africa, new and old technological innovations in agriculture can be employed to protect existing and future water supplies that are increasingly becoming vulnerable to encroaching global warming trends.
Mark Nyandoro
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Shaping Landscapes: Thinking On the Interactions between People and Nature in Inter- and Postdisciplinary Narratives

Humanities, 2021
This article addresses broad and plural concepts of landscape, considering its diversity of meanings and uses, which go far beyond its environmental and geographical connotations. It discusses the relationship between humanity and the rest of the natural
Ana Cristina Roque, Cecilia Veracini, Cristina Brito   +2 more
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