He knew about climate change in 1799. What can we learn?
Published on: Friday 19 July 2019
During Humboldt’s travels through Venezuela in 1799, he noticed that farmers in the Aragua valley were deforesting the region to grow indigo. As a result, the nearby lake was drying up. Later, in a ...
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