Historian of science and environment | finishing a book on watery Earth histories 1550-1800 | researching a new one on uranium and energy futures in the 1970s-80s | Postdoc @iisg-amsterdam.bsky.social | PhD from @uva.nl
![With the headline “Der Wald stirbt” [“The Forest is Dying”], this 1981 Spiegel cover page, depicting gray, sulphur-spewing chimneys above a plantation pine forest, made it clear to readers that industrial byproducts, mainly sulfur dioxide emissions, were responsible for forest dieback.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:7dm745pgg5yu6wazsvidub65/bafkreiabzh5oytlj5mm77pzlf4hcitlexf3il4ukgf6cjsm6xhdk63bwmi)
Historian of science and environment | finishing a book on watery Earth histories 1550-1800 | researching a new one on uranium and energy futures in the 1970s-80s | Postdoc @iisg-amsterdam.bsky.social | PhD from @uva.nl