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Hi-tech agriculture is freeing the farmer from his fields

November 4, 2015
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From The Guardian: Robots to pick, drones to survey crops and satellites to drive tractors - experts predict a fully automated farm in five years. But is this what farmers…

CfP: Transformations of the Earth—International Graduate Student Workshop in Environmental History

November 4, 2015
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Remin University, China, and the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, Germany, invite interested, advanced graduate students or early postdocs to a conference giving them the chance to present the works their…

Environmental safeguards ‘virtually non-existent’ in TTIP

November 3, 2015
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In the latest round of TTIP talks during October, the EU did not see any progress in introducing stronger language on environmental safeguards, despite significant public pressure. In January the…

Some thoughts on trees, documents and digital technology – Environmental History Resources

November 2, 2015
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Jan Oosthoek reports on his blog Environmental History Resources about the keynote talk given by Jennifer Gardner, curator of the Waite Arboretum, at the 9th conference of the Australian Forest…

The Drone that Can Plant Trees

October 12, 2015
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Engineers are hoping to use drones to plant in areas that have been deforested. Martin Tengler, of BioCarbon Engineering, explains in a video how the technology works. BioCarbon Engineering recently spoke at…

The USDA is Launching Hordes of Irradiated Moths from Drones

October 12, 2015
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In Popular Science, Mary Beth Griggs reports that the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is dropping sterile moths from drones to manage infestations in cotton crops. Keeping moths away from…

Biodiversity Heritage Library: What Makes a Citizen Science Project Successful?

October 7, 2015
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On its blog BHL discusses what are the factors that lead to the success of the many crowdsourcing projects it supports by interviewing one of its most dedicated volunteers, Siobhan…

Postdoc: Gerda Henkel Fellowship in Digital History

September 22, 2015
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With the generous support of the Gerda Henkel Foundation, the German Historical Institute (GHI) and the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at the George Mason University (RRCHNM)…

Call for Papers: E is for Environment: New Vocabularies for the Past, Present, and Future

September 14, 2015
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A Graduate Student Symposium in Celebration of Gaylord Nelson at 100 Madison, Wisconsin March 4-6, 2016 http://eisforenvironment.org “Environment is all of America and its problems. It is rats in the…

Modelling spread of hospital bugs

September 9, 2015
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By Susanna Jolly, BBC Science & Environment, 9 September 2015. A new computer model predicts that multi-bed hospital wards increase bacterial hand contamination by 20% compared with single-bed wards. ...…

Eruptions, Earthquakes, & Emissions: Visualizing the Planet’s Heartbeat

Exit counselling for the Modern?

Ant meets ANT: A gathering on “media ecologies”

A THATCamp for environmental historians