Environmental

Sandwiched between the Mediterranean Sea and the Leb- anon Mountains, Beirut is a site of successive Phoenician, Roman, and Ottoman ports, Beirut has a rich...Read more

Originally one of the most productive wetlands of the Great Lakes, the marshes at the mouth of the Don River were rap- idly degraded by...Read more

For centuries, the Lenape inhabited the area at the conflu- ence of the Hudson and East Rivers. In the early 17th century Dutch settlers built...Read more

Prior to the Gold Rush in 1848, San Francisco was a small community of a few hundred people, named Yerba Buena Cove. As the population...Read more

False Creek was an important hub for the lumber industry in Vancouver. By 1891, six out of eight saw mills were located in False Creek...Read more

The Ile Notre-Dame began as a small, rocky island claimed by Guillaume Vignal in 1661. During the mid 19th-century, the island acted as an important...Read more

First occupied by the indigenous Cadigal People 14,000 years before European settlement, the area now known as Barangaroo began as significant hunting and fishing grounds...Read more

Surrounded by brackish marshes, Boston was described by early settlers as “wild and dangerous” due to its ever changing environment. As settlement increased, low laying...Read more