Recent research suggests rats may not have played the critical role in keeping plague going in Europe.
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Business managers rethinking supply chains should consider COVID effects, the African free trade area and green industrial growth.
Churches’ struggles to respond to the plague and constant warfare in the 14th and 15th centuries helped shape the kinds of Christianity in the world today.
The Black Death is believed to have been the most devastating pandemic in Europe’s history. Now paleoecologists and historians have cast doubt on how bad it was.
Halloween, with its mix of the macabre and the playful, provides a moment to reflect on how closely life and death are interwoven – especially in the COVID era.
Global conservation efforts have suffered during the COVID-19 outbreak. It’s sadly ironic, because avoiding habitat loss is a cost-effective way to prevent pandemics.
Humanity is destroying Earth’s ability to support complex life. But coming to grips with the magnitude of the problem is hard, even for experts.
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A fast-moving equine flu cratered the US economy in the fall of 1872, showing all too clearly that horses were essential and deserved better treatment.
Although memorials to past pandemics are not as prolific as war memorials, they do exist. A scholar of visual culture provides a brief history of monuments around the world.
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Researcher, Palaeobotany, Sapienza University of Rome
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Matthew Flinders Professor of Global Ecology and Node Leader in the ARC Centre of Excellence for Indigenous and Environmental Histories and Futures, Flinders University
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Professor of History, University of Tennessee
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President, Center for Conservation Biology, Bing Professor of Population Studies, Stanford University
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Visiting Professor at Strathmore Business School ;Professor of International Business, City University New York, City University of New York
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Associate Professor of History, Rutgers University - Newark
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Professor of History, University of Glasgow
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Independent Max Planck research Group Leader, Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology
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Professor, Environmental History and Historical Epidemiology, Georgetown University
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Associate Professor of History, Colorado State University
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Professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, University of California, Los Angeles
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Emeritus Professor of Environmental Management, The University of Queensland
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Associate Professor of History, University of Stirling
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Associate Professor, Art and Visual Culture, Iowa State University
