This blog is participating in a series of workshops entitled Cultural Spaces of Climate. The second workshop on "historising climate" takes place today at the Royal Geographical Society.
Topics range from "weather and climate in colonial Bombay" and "changing meanings of storm surges" to "the role of the Met Office in the coal shortages of 1947". More to follow.
Ancient Peruvian civilisation grew mighty by harvesting guano
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The Chincha Kingdom was transporting seabird excrement from islands to
valleys as early as the 13th century, and this powerful fertiliser may have
been key...
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