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environmental history Environmental history is the study of Human impact on the environment, human interaction with the natural world over time, emphasising the active role nature plays in influencing human affairs and vice versa. Environmental history first emerged ...

, the study of human interaction with the natural world over time.

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History of agriculture in India History is the systematic study of the past, focusing primarily on the human past. As an academic discipline, it analyses and interprets evidence to construct narratives about what happened and explain why it happened. Some theorists categ ...

(from ancient times) *

History of agriculture in the People's Republic of China For millennia, agriculture has played an important role in the Chinese economy and society. By the time the People's Republic of China was established in 1949, virtually all arable land was under cultivation; irrigation and drainage systems ...

(from ancient times) *

History of agriculture in the United States The history of agriculture in the United States covers the period from the first English settlers to the present day. In Colonial America, agriculture was the primary livelihood for 90% of the population, and most towns were shipping points for th ...

History of the anti-nuclear movement The application of nuclear technology, both as a source of energy and as an instrument of war, has been controversial.Robert BenfordThe Anti-nuclear Movement (book review)''American Journal of Sociology'', Vol. 89, No. 6, (May 1984), pp. 1456- ...

(from before 1945) *

History of the bicycle Vehicles that have two wheels and require balancing by the rider date back to the early 19th century. The first means of transport making use of two wheels arranged consecutively, and thus the archetype of the bicycle, was the German ''draisine' ...

(from 1817 with archetype) *

History of biotechnology Biotechnology is the application of scientific and engineering principles to the processing of materials by biological agents to provide goods and services. From its inception, biotechnology has maintained a close relationship with society. Altho ...

History of climate change science The history of the scientific discovery of climate change began in the early 19th century when ice ages and other natural changes in paleoclimate were first suspected and the natural greenhouse effect was first identified. In the late 19th centu ...

(from the early 19th century) *

History of coal mining The history of coal mining goes back thousands of years, with early mines documented in ancient China, the Roman Empire and other early historical economies. It became important in the Industrial Revolution of the 19th and 20th centuries, when it w ...

(from ancient times) *

History of coal mining in the United States The history of coal mining in the United States starts with the first commercial use in 1701, within the Manakin-Sabot area of Richmond, Virginia. Coal was the dominant power source in the late 19th century and the early 20th century, and ...

History of cycling Cycling quickly became an activity after bicycles were introduced in the 19th century and remains popular with more than a billion people worldwide used for recreation, transportation and sport. Racing The first documented cycling race was a 1,2 ...

History of cycling in New Zealand The bicycle originally reached New Zealand in the 1860s in the form of the velocipede, also known as the 'boneshaker'. These bikes, as elsewhere, soon evolved into the elegant 'high wheelers', known today as penny-farthings. Popular among wealth ...

(from the 1860s) * History of the diesel car (from 1933) *

History of electric power transmission Electric power transmission, the tools and means of moving electricity far from where it is generated, date back to the late 19th century. They include the movement of electricity in bulk (formally called "electric power transmission, transmission" ...

(from the late 19th century) * History of electricity sector in Canada (from the late 19th century) * History of electricity supply in Queensland *

History of the electric vehicle Crude electric carriages were invented in the late 1820s and 1830s. Practical, commercially available electric vehicles appeared during the 1890s. An electric vehicle held the vehicular land speed record until around 1900. In the early 20th c ...

(from the mid-19th century) *

History of ethanol fuel in Brazil The history of ethanol fuel in Brazil dates from the 1970s and relates to Brazil's sugarcane-based ethanol fuel program, which allowed the country to become the world's second largest producer of ethanol, and the world's largest exporter. Seve ...

(from the 1970s) *

History of flooding in Canada The history of flooding in Canada includes floods caused by snowmelt runoff or freshet flooding, storm-rainfall and "flash flooding", ice jams during ice formation and spring break-up, natural dams, coastal flooding on ocean or lake coasts from sto ...

History of Hydro-Québec Hydro-Québec is a Canadian Crown corporations of Canada#Quebec, Crown corporation public utility established in 1944 by the Government of Quebec. The company is in charge of the electricity generation, generation, electric power transmission, trans ...

(from 1944) * History of the jet engine *

History of manufactured gas The history of gaseous fuel, important for lighting, heating, and cooking purposes throughout most of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century, began with the development of analytical and pneumatic chemistry in the 18th century. ...

(from the 18th century) * History of nanotechnology (from the 1980s) *

History of nuclear weapons Building on major scientific breakthroughs made during the 1930s, the United Kingdom began the world's first nuclear weapons research project, codenamed Tube Alloys, in 1941, during World War II. The United States, in collaboration with the Uni ...

(from the 1930s) *

History of numerical weather prediction The history of numerical weather prediction considers how current weather conditions as input into mathematical models of the atmosphere and oceans to predict the weather and future sea state (the process of numerical weather prediction) has ch ...

(from 1950) *

History of the oil shale industry The history of the oil shale industry started in ancient times. The modern industrial use of oil shale for shale oil extraction, oil extraction dates to the mid-19th century and started growing just before World War I because of the mass product ...

(from the mid-19th century) *

History of the oil tanker The history of the oil tanker is part of the evolution of the technology of oil transportation alongside the oil industry. Background The technology of oil transportation has evolved alongside the oil industry. Although use of oil reaches to p ...

(since 1863?) *

History of organic farming Traditional farming (of many particular kinds in different eras and places) was the original type of agriculture, and has been practiced for thousands of years. All traditional farming is now considered to be "organic farming" although at the ti ...

(from ancient times) *

History of passive solar building design The passive solar design of buildings includes consideration of their orientation to the sun and their thermal mass, factors which have been incorporated to a greater or lesser extent in vernacular architecture for thousands of years. Ancient Greek ...

History of the petroleum industry in Canada The Canadian petroleum industry arose in parallel with that of the United States. Because of Canada's unique geography, geology, resources and patterns of settlement, however, it developed in different ways. The evolution of the petroleum secto ...

(from the late 1950s?) *

History of the petroleum industry in Canada (frontier exploration and development) Canada's early petroleum discoveries took place near population centres or along lines of penetration into the frontier. The first oil play, for example, was in southern Ontario. The first western natural gas discovery occurred on a Canadian Paci ...

(from 1920) *

History of the petroleum industry in Canada (natural gas) Natural gas has been used almost as long as crude oil in Canada, but its commercial development was not as rapid. This is because of special properties of this energy commodity: it is a gas, and it frequently contains impurities. The technic ...

(most significantly from 1980) * History of the petroleum industry in Canada (natural gas liquids) (from 1914) *

History of the petroleum industry in Canada (oil sands and heavy oil) Canada's oil sands and heavy oil resources are among the world's largest petroleum deposits. They include the oil sands of northern Alberta, and the heavy oil reservoirs that surround the small city of Lloydminster, which sits on the border bet ...

(from 1719) *

History of the petroleum industry in the United States The history of the petroleum industry in the United States goes back to the early 19th century, although the indigenous peoples, like many ancient societies, have used petroleum seeps since prehistoric times; where found, these seeps signaled t ...

(from the early 19th century) *

History of plug-in hybrids The history of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) spans a little more than a century, but most of the significant commercial developments have taken place after 2002. The revival of interest in this automotive technology together with al ...

(most significantly from 2002) *

History of rail transport The history of rail transport began before the beginning of the common era. It can be divided into several discrete periods defined by the principal means of track material and motive power used. Ancient systems The Post Track, a prehisto ...

(from nearly 500 years ago) (See also: :History of rail transport.) *

History of rapid transit The history of rapid transit began in London with the opening of the Metropolitan Railway, which is now part of the London Underground, in 1863. By World War I, electric underground railways were being used in Athens Metro, Athens, Berlin U-Bah ...

(from 1863) *

History of road transport The history of road transport started with the development of tracks by humans and their beasts of burden. Antiquity The first forms of road transport were pack animals carrying goods over tracks that often followed game trails, such as the Nat ...

(from ancient times) *

History of Statoil (1972–2007) Statoil ASA was a Norwegian petroleum company established in 1972. It merged with the oil and gas division of Norsk Hydro in 2007 and was known as StatoilHydro until 2009, when the name was changed back to Statoil ASA. The brand Statoil wa ...

History of the steam engine The first recorded rudimentary steam engine was the aeolipile mentioned by De Architectura#Roman technology, Vitruvius between 30 and 15 BC and, described by Heron of Alexandria in 1st-century Roman Egypt. Several steam-powered devices were lat ...

(from the first century CE) *

History of steam road vehicles The history of steam road vehicles comprises the development of vehicles powered by a steam engine for use on land and independent of rails, whether for conventional road use, such as the steam car and steam waggon, or for agricultural or heavy ...

(experimentally from the 17th century) * History of sustainability (from the earliest civilizations) *

History of the Venezuelan oil industry Venezuela has the world's largest proven oil reserves at an estimated 304 billion barrels (18% of global reserves) as of 2020. The country was once one of the world's largest exporters of oil. Oil production peaked in the late 1990s and ea ...

(from before European colonization) *

History of waste management History is the systematic study of the past, focusing primarily on the human past. As an academic discipline, it analyses and interprets evidence to construct narratives about what happened and explain why it happened. Some theorists categ ...

(from ancient times) * History of water filters (from ancient times) * History of water fluoridation (from c. 1901, with research on cause Colorado brown stain) *

History of water supply and sanitation The history of water supply and sanitation is one of a logistics, logistical challenge to provide Water supply, clean water and sanitation systems since the dawn of civilization. Where water resources, infrastructure or sanitation systems were ins ...

(from ancient times) *

History of wildfire suppression in the United States Wildfire suppression has had a long and varied history in the United States. For most of the 20th century, any form of wildland fire, whether it was naturally caused or otherwise, was quickly suppressed for fear of uncontrollable and destructive ...

* Environmental history of Latin America

Timelines

* Timeline of alcohol fuel *

Timeline of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill A timeline is a list of events displayed in chronological order. It is typically a graphic design showing a long bar labelled with dates paralleling it, and usually contemporaneous events. Timelines can use any suitable scale representing ti ...

Timeline of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill (May 2010) Following is a Timeline of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, Timeline of the ''Deepwater Horizon'' oil spill for May 2010. Before May 1 May May 1–5 *May 1 :*Two military C-130 Hercules aircraft were employed to spray oil dispersant. *May ...

Timeline of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill (June 2010) Following is a timeline of the ''Deepwater Horizon'' oil spill for June 2010. Events prior to June June 1–5 *June 1 :*United States attorney general Eric Holder said his office was going to investigate possible criminal prosecutions. He s ...

* Timeline of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill (July 2010) * Timeline of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill (August 2010) *

Timeline of environmental events This timeline lists events in the external environment that have influenced events in human history. This timeline is for use with the article on environmental determinism. For the history of humanity's influence on the environment, and humanit ...

Timeline of environmental history This timeline lists events in the external environment that have influenced events in human history. This timeline is for use with the article on environmental determinism. For the history of humanity's influence on the environment, and humanit ...

Timeline of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster Fukushima Daiichi is 1 of 2 multi-Nuclear reactor technology, reactor Nuclear power plant, nuclear power sites in the Fukushima Prefecture of Japan. Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, A nuclear disaster occurred there after a Moment magnitude ...

* Timeline of the Fukushima Daini nuclear accidents *

Timeline of genetically modified organisms Genetic engineering is the science of manipulating genetic material of an organism. The concept of genetic engineering was first proposed by Nikolay Timofeev-Ressovsky in 1934. The first artificial genetic modification accomplished using biotech ...

* Timeline of history of environmentalism *

Timeline of major U.S. environmental and occupational health regulation * 1916 – National Park Service Organic Act created the National Park Service. * 1918 – Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918, Migratory Bird Treaty Act creates protections for migratory birds. * 1947 – Los Angeles Air Pollution Control Distri ...

Timeline of Minamata disease The following is a timeline of key events related to Minamata disease: References "Minamata Disease: The History and Measures" The Ministry of the Environment (Japan), Ministry of the Environment, (2002), retrieved 17 January 2007"Minamat ...

Timeline of the New Zealand environment This is a timeline of environmental history of New Zealand. It includes notable events affecting the natural environment of New Zealand as a result of human activity. Pre 1700s 14th century- *Arrival of Māori who brought with them the kiore ...

Timeline of nuclear weapons development This timeline of nuclear weapons development is a chronological catalog of the evolution of nuclear weapons rooting from the development of the science surrounding nuclear fission and nuclear fusion. In addition to the scientific advancements, thi ...

Timeline of relief efforts after the 2010 Chile earthquake The timeline of relief efforts after the 2010 Chile earthquake of 27 February 2010 involves the sequence of events in the days following a highly destructive 8.8 earthquake with an epicentre just offshore of the Maule Region, see Maule, Chile. ...

* Timeline of relief efforts after the 2010 Haiti earthquake

Environmental history books

Miscellaneous topics

* :Environment by year *

Growth of photovoltaics Between 1992 and 2023, the worldwide usage of photovoltaics (PV) increased exponential growth, exponentially. During this period, it evolved from a niche market of small-scale applications to a mainstream electricity source. From 2016-2022 it ha ...

Instrumental temperature record Global surface temperature (GST) is the average temperature of Earth's surface. More precisely, it is the weighted average of the temperatures over the ocean and land. The former is also called sea surface temperature and the latter is calle ...

* List of years in the environment * Table of years in the environment *

Temperature record of the past 1000 years The temperature record of the last 2,000 years is reconstructed using data from climate proxy records in conjunction with the modern instrumental temperature record which only covers the last 170 years at a global scale. Large-scale reconstructi ...

Gallery

File:Oil consumption per day by region from 1980 to 2006 solid2.svg, Oil consumption per day by region from 1980 to 2006 File:Biodiversity Hotspots 2015.svg, Biodiversity hotspots

References

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''Environmental History''
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American Society for Environmental HistoryEnvironmental History ResourcesHistorical Topics , US EPAJSTOR: All Volumes and Issues - Browse - Environmental History
996–2007 (Volumes 1–12)br>JSTOR: All Volumes and Issues - Browse - Forest & Conservation History

990–1995 (Volumes 34–39) 99 may refer to: * 99 (number) * one of the years 99 BC, AD 99, 1999, 2099, etc. Art, entertainment, and media Film, television and radio * ''99'' (1918 film), a Hungarian film * ''99'' (2009 film), an Indian Hindi film * ''99'' (2019 film), ...

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976–1989 (Volumes 1–13)br>JSTOR: All Volumes and Issues - Browse - Environmental History Review

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History History is the systematic study of the past, focusing primarily on the Human history, human past. As an academic discipline, it analyses and interprets evidence to construct narratives about what happened and explain why it happened. Some t ...

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