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The Climate Crisis and Eroding Public Beach Access: A Q&A with Kara Murphy Schlichting, winner of the 2024 Forest History Society's Blegen Article Award

Malibu's Broad Beach is backed by some of the most expensive, exclusive real estate in Los Angeles County and is a bellwether for how California coastal communities address the tension between public access and private development in the face of the climate crisis and sea level rise.
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As renewable energy demand rises, mining for minerals in the Amazon is at a critical point

Illegal mining for critical minerals needed for the global renewable energy transition is increasingly driving deforestation in Indigenous lands in the Amazon. In recent years, these illegal miners, who are often self-employed, mobile and working covertly, have expanded their gold mining operations to include cassiterite or “black gold”, a critical mineral essential for the renewable energy transition.
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Rewriting the story of horses and human history

Archaeologist William T. Taylor shares a behind-the-scenes tour of the fieldwork and discoveries that inspired HOOF BEATS, a new book that explores how horses forever altered the course of human history.
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DNA, Race, and Reproduction

by Emily Klancher Merchant (Editor), Meaghan O'Keefe (Editor)
Feb 2025
Open Access

The Celluloid Specimen: Moving Image Research into Animal Life

by Benjamin Schultz-Figueroa (Author)
Feb 2023
Open Access

Renaissance Futurities: Science, Art, Invention

by Charlene Villaseñor Black (Editor), Mari-Tere Álvarez (Editor)
Nov 2019
Open Access

Rivers of the Anthropocene

by Jason M. Kelly (Editor), Philip Scarpino (Editor), and 3 more
Nov 2017
Open Access

Water and Los Angeles: A Tale of Three Rivers, 1900-1941

by William F. Deverell (Author), Tom Sitton (Author)
Oct 2016
Open Access