Professor Alfred Crosby’s 1986 book Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900-1900 is an earlier example of environmental history. Crosby asserts that Europeans, with their command and control of ocean navigation brought swifter regime change to the ecosystems of their colonial worlds. From smallpox to rats to oranges, Europeans picked up indigenous flora and
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A group of scientists has published a report stating that the FDA was wrong to assert that the common chemical in plastics is harmless. BPA, according to the report, The Food and Drug Administration ignored scientific evidence and used flawed methods when it determined that After 9 years, Pittsburgh’s National Aviary’s expansion plans will begin to be implemented this Spring. The An indoor free-flight bird theater and an open-air rooftop theater for birds-of-prey highlight the long-awaited $23-million expansion plans the National Aviary revealed this morning. … The rooftop raptor theater will be 66 feet in diameter, according to the We really could use a big infrastructure investment around Pittsburgh. These locks & dams are 75 years old and a vital, if often unseen, component of our local infrastructure. The Army Corps of Engineers says a dam on the Allegheny River in western Pennsylvania is so eroded it could fail if it is hit by From the Post-Gazette: Starting Saturday, a Westmoreland County funeral home and owners of nearby Rose Memorial Park will begin offering green burials, an eco-friendly way of burying the dead. |
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