Environmental Collection

Welwyn Garden City, an example of town planning
An advertisement for new houses and industrial sites at the new town of Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, an example of town planning, designed to take people away from polluted cities

Industrial panorama, Hanley, Stoke on Trent, early 1900s

Moho nobilis, Hawaii o-o
Moho nobilis. Ff. 26, watercolour by William Ellis from a collection of sketches of Mammals, Birds and Fish made on Captian James Cooks third voyage (1776-1780)

Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). La destruccio del bosc es la destruccio de l'economia (Destruction of the forest is the destruction of economy). Poster edited by the Generalitat of Catalunya

Pete Seeger, American folk musician and singer-songwriter
Peter "Pete" Seeger (b 1919), American folk musician and singer-songwriter. From the 1960s onwards he has performed protest music in support of international disarmament

Aerial view of Cardiff, showing less smoke pollution
Aerial view of Cardiff, claiming to show less smoke pollution, due to the use of Welsh coals rather than inferior types. 1931

Aerial view of a city with heavy smoke pollution
Aerial view of an unnamed industrial city showing heavy smoke pollution, claimed to be caused by inferior coals (ie not Welsh). 1931

Magnifying glass - Town Hall
German Environmental protest group pamphlet cover illustration: Osnabruck unter der grunen Lupe : eine Stadt verliert ganz langsam ihr Gesicht

Douglas DC-6A N6540C (msn 45368, line number 932), of the United States Department of Commerce, attached to the Environmental Science Services Administration (ESSA), Research Flight Facility (RFF)

Cartoons, Improving landscapes
Cartoons, Improving Landscapes, with the addition of smoky chimney-stacks, gas towers, soap factories and drainage pipes. Date: 1880

Desolation at sea-port Dikson, Arctic Russia. Summer, August. Broken and abandoned ships and rubbish everywhere in what use to be one of the major ports in Russian Arctic ocean coast (Kara sea)

Hvanneyri model farm, Iceland
Hvanneyri, one of the model farms, represents the most modern methods of construction in its buildings and the latest methods of cultivation and animal breeding in 1939. Date: 1939

A typical oil-pump - oil-well in a desert. near Kumdag - Turkmenistan - former CIS - Spring - April

Wooden wedges are used to fix a leakage - an old pipe-line carrying chemicals. desert near Kumdag -Turkmenistan - former CIS - Spring - April

A typical oil-pump on an oil-well with a puddle of oil - in a desert near Kumdag. typical in Turkmenistan former CIS - Spring - April

An old rusty pipe-line - carrying extracted iodine chemicals - in a desert near Kumdag. Turkmenistan - former CIS - Spring - April

Maloyuganskii village - aerial of village and taiga forest. near Surgut, Siberia, Russia. Spring. Fog visible on the horizon is due to smoke from uncontrolled forest fires

ASIATIC BLACK BEAR - chewing bark (Selenarctos thibetanus japonicus). Gunma Prefecture, Kanto Region on Honshu Island, Japan

Smoking pipes of metallurgical complex in Norilsk, Russian Arctic.. Summer, August. Severely polluted town sits in the same landscape depression in arctic tundra

Driftwood - accumulating in Yenisey-river gulf. on a Kara-sea shore. It consist of wood from lost logging rafts, trees washed away up Yenisey-river and a lot of rubbish. Russian Arctic near Dikson

Destruction of rainforest: preparation for oil-palm plantation which replaces rainforest in a river-valley, (Elaeis guineensis). Sabah, Borneo; Malaysia; June

Climate Change Wall
The Climate Change Wall in the Darwin Centre of the Natural History Museum, London

Usnea inflata, beard lichen
And Hypogymnia physodes (right), Burnham Beeches, Bucks, W. London. The former is a recent colonist following reductions in SO2 pollution

Sceloglaux albifacies, laughing owl
This owl, native only to New Zealand, became extinct in c. 1914, probably due to deforestation and the disappearance of its favourite prey the Kiori rat. Artist unknown

Ara ambiguus, great green macaw
Plate 6 painting by Louis Bourquet from Francois Le Vaillants Histoire Naturelle des Perroquets, Vol. 1, (1801). Annotated Le Grand Ara Militaire

Erythrina sp
A native Erythrina sp. flowering in a shade coffee farm located in the crater of Volcan Chinameca, El Salvador

Logging operations in Brunei
View of felled logs and forest in Brunei

Darwin Initiative project members
Collecting plants in the threatened Atlantic forests of the Mbaracayu Forest Nature Reserve, Paraguay

Hoplostethus atlanticus, orange roughy
Photograph of three orange roughy (Hoplostethus atlanticus). These handsome and widespread, deep-living fish are already suffering from overfishing in some places

Illegal logging taking place along the East-West Highway, Malaysia, 1993

Environmental degradation in El Salvador
Photo of environmental degradation in El Salvador

Lichens result from an intimate relationship between a fungus and an alga; there are about 18, 000 species

Schubert / I Carve Her
Song : Ich scnitt es gern in alle Rinden ein (I carve her name on every forest tree..) unaware that his Beloved is secretary of the local environmental organisation

Flower field, Ta Pinu National Shrine

Man-made salt pans, Zebbug, Gozo

Dolmen / standing stones, Ta Cenc, looking towards Xewkiwa church Date: 2011

Hay bales, Ta Pinu National Shrine, Ghammar / Ghasri, Gozo Date: 2011

Ta Pinu Church and national shrine, Ghasri, Gozo 2011

Maltese watch-tower on limestone cliffs above Gnejna Bay. Originally a lookout post for raiding corsairs / Ottoman Turks, c. 1550 Date: 2011

Chemical Waste Dump
Environmental pollution : An old marlpit, used as a sump for chemical waste. Date: 1960s

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