Stories
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The big freeze
In recent years we’ve come to realise that global heating is our biggest threat. But it’s hard to shake off the fear of a return to ice-age conditions, the predominant narrative since the late 17th century.
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Air of threat
Novelist Chloe Aridjis vividly describes the suffocating atmosphere of Mexico City, as a combination of topography, crowded neighbourhoods, and reckless political diktats create a downward spiral.
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How nature is defending itself in court
The idea that nature has legal rights is increasingly being taken seriously, but who gets to speak for it? Isabella Kaminski asks how the non-human can be represented within a human-made system.
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Illuminated manuscripts, illuminating medicines
From rare bugs to exorbitantly priced plant parts, find out more about the artistic and medical uses of pigments from the past.
Catalogue
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Volcanoes of North America : a reading lesson for students of geography and geology / by Israel C. Russell.
Russell, Israel C. (Israel Cook), 1852-1906.Date: 1897- Books
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Buffon's Natural history, abridged. Including the history of the elements, the earth, and its component parts, Mountains, Rivers, Seas, Winds, Whirlwinds, Waterspouts, Volcanoes, Earthquakes, Of Man, Quadrupeds, Birds, Fishes, Shell-Fish, Lizards, And Serpents; With A General View Of The Insect World. Illustrated with a great variety of copper-plates, elegantly engraved.
Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de, 1707-1788.Date: M,DCC,XCI. [1791]- Books
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The wonders of nature and art; being an account of whatever is most curious and remarkable throughout the world; Whether relating to its Animals, Vegetables, Minerals, Volcanoes, Cataracts, Hot and Cold Springs, and Other Parts of Natural History; or, to the Buildings, Manufactures, Inventions, and Discoveries of its Inhabitants. The whole collected from the writings of the best historians, Travellers, Geographers, and Philosophers, among which are some Original Manuscripts; interspersed with pious Observations and Reflections; illustrated with Notes, and adorned with Copper-Plates. The second edition. ...
Date: MDCCLXVIII. [1768]- Archives and manuscripts
Red trees in front of three volcanoes (artwork)
Date: 1940s-1997Reference: PP/RSI/B/2/4/6Part of: Rita Simon Collection- Books
Through France with Berzelius : live scholars and dead volcanoes / Carl Gustaf Bernhard.
Bernhard, Carl Gustaf.Date: 1989