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Walkonomics app guides you to the most nature-filled path

July 17, 2015
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We've written before about the Walkonomics app, which helps you find the best route for getting from point A to B based on walkability. The app takes into account things…

When you give a tree an email address

July 16, 2015
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"Officials assigned the trees ID numbers and email addresses in 2013 as part of a program designed to make it easier for citizens to report problems like dangerous branches. The…

80 presentations: “In Paris, Scientists Chart Varied Paths to a Sustainable Human Relationship With Earth’s Climate”

July 14, 2015
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Source: Andrew C. Revkin, "In Paris, Scientists Chart Varied Paths to a Sustainable Human Relationship with Earth's Climate," Dot Earth Blog 11 July 2015 A richly variegated four-day climate change conference, concluding…

Hacking the Humanities

July 8, 2015
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Elias Muhanna, an assistant professor of comparative literature at Brown University, describes an assignment based on Pliny the Elder's "Natural History." After reading the assignment and reëvaluating the choices I’d…

Ant Spider Bee at #ESEH2015

July 8, 2015
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by Finn Arne Jørgensen Another European Society for Environmental History conference is over - this time, little over 300 scholars from the whole world met in beautiful and steaming hot…

Instagram Adds Trending Locations, Here’s How They Work

June 24, 2015
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By Dave Gershgorn in Popular Science: At first, Instagram was the app for picture people. Photographers who saw the app’s potential early on in its life cycle, like David Guttenfelder…

CFP: A Campfire Conversation About Small Data and Big Stories, ASEH 2016

June 13, 2015
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Ant Spider Bee editor Finn Arne Jørgensen is looking for contributors to a session at ASEH 2016 in Seattle, March 30 - April 3. A campfire conversation can be seen…

Beyond Google Earth

June 9, 2015
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"Satellite imagery might seem neutral, but it is constructed by systems which not only present but also transform the visual data." Source: Beyond Google Earth

Rare-earth mining in Chile could make China look bad

June 9, 2015
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"the rare-earth minerals like neodymium and dysprosium used to make iPhones, cars, wind turbines, Tomahawk cruise missiles, glass, and various other consumer goods come primarily from mines in China, where environmental…

These 3D maps of coral reefs are totally rad

June 9, 2015
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"Lee dove with a waterproof camera to take nearly 200,000 images of the reefs from every angle. Then he uploaded the photos to Autodesk rendering software, stitching them together into…

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