... Silicon Valley microelectronics toxic gases Bhopal disaster Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition environmental history In early December 1984, the Union Carbide factory in the Indian town of Bhopal exploded in the middle of the night. It released 40 tons of methyl isocyanate into the atmosphere...

... Legislation subsequently made its way to the highest level of the imperial British Government, requiring assisted migrants to “repay a suitable portion of the cost of their passage if they quit the colony within a definite period.” 10 San Francisco fire incendiarism urban history environmental...

...Brett M. Bennett; Gregory A. Barton This special issue of Pacific Historical Review , “Crossroads of Indo-Pacific Environmental Histories,” is guest edited by Gregory A. Barton and Brett M. Bennett. The special issue explores how environmental historians can use the concept of the Indo-Pacific...

...James D. Drake This article traces the process by which people in the United States embraced the Continental Divide as a geographic feature of North America in the late 1860s. Building on recent work in environmental history, Civil War memory, geography, and the history of nationalism, the essay...