Global environmental change: a natural and cultural environmental history

acid rain acidification afforestation agricultural agroforestry alkenone aquifers Australia bacteria biogeochemical cycles biomass biotechnology Brazil Britain Bronze Age carbon dioxide Chichester climatic change coleopteran conifers deforestation desertification developed nations Devensian diatom Earth Report ecosystems environmental eutrophication fertilisers Flandrian forest forestry fossil fuels genetic engineering global warming glyphosate grassland greenhouse effect greenhouse gas habitats heavy metals herbicides Himalaya Holocene hominids Homo sapiens sapiens hunter-gatherer hydrological cycle ice cores industrialisation insecticides interglacial Iron Age irrigation kyr BP land degradation last glacial maximum legumes Little Ice Age Loess plateau maize Marsworth mesolithic methane Nature Conservancy Council neolithic nitrate nitrogen fixation North America northern hemisphere nutrients Older Dryas organophosphate oxygen isotope stages ozone depletion pesticide Pleistocene polar front pollen proxy climatic pyrethroids Quaternary salinisation savanna sediments shifting cultivation soil erosion somaclonal variation straight-tusked elephant stratigraphy stratosphere tropical rainforest tundra upper palaeolithic woolly rhinoceros Younger Dryas