Chernobyl, Dark Waters, and the Contingency of Environmental Disaster and Scientific Knowledge

This article contributes towards scholarship on teaching environmental history by analysing a series ( Chernobyl , 2019) and film ( Dark Waters , 2019). It argues that the immediacy of such media offer an ideal entry point into environmental history and history of science for students first studying those subjects. As well, it provides a model for how to use media in environment history.