Evaggelos Vallianatos

Evaggelos Vallianatos, Ph.D., studied history and biology at the University of Illinois; earned his Ph.D. in Greek and European history at the University of Wisconsin; did postdoctoral studies in the history of science at Harvard. He worked on Capitol Hill and the US EPA; taught at several universities and authored several books, including The Antikythera Mechanism: The Story Behind the Genius of the Greek Computer and its Demise. He is the author of Earth on Fire: Brewing Plagues and Climate Chaos in Our Backyards, forthcoming by World Scientific, Spring 2025.

Climate Fires and Anger as Fierce as the Santa Anna Winds

The Future of Our Food is Not in Vast Factory Farms

The Return of Odysseus to Ithaca

Leaf Blowers: An Invisible Source of Climate Chaos and Harm to Human and Environmental Health

Lessons of the Peloponnesian War

Roots of War: Western Civilization and the Turks

Glyphosate and Neonicotinoids are Poisoning Honeybees (and the World)

The Annihilation of Honeybees

Red Fire Ant Wars

The Enemy Next Door: Achilles and Hector

Uprooting: Turkey, Greece, Cyprus and American Nuclear Weapons

Money or Your Life

Pesticides: Existential Danger

Looming War Between NATO Allies: Greece and Turkey

After Biden

Factory Tourism is Wrecking Greece

Climate and Political Heatwaves Kill

Supreme Court Madness

Zeus Filled the Streets, Markets, Seas, and the Heavens

A Moment of Climate Truth

In Empire, Billionaires, and Wars We Trust

Destroying the Natural World in Order to Save it?

The Struggle for the Aegean

Big Oil and Civilization Don’t Mix

The Blue Homeland of Turkey Threatens War Against Greece

The School of Ancient Greece for Science, Civilization, and Planetary Governance

What We Owe the Greek

Time to Choose

Fear and the Cold War

Biden’s Last Chance

On the Brink of Nuclear War

Opening the Jar of Pandora

Greek Traditions – Backbone of Civilization

Homer, Aristotle, and Alexander the Great

The Beast Behind the Classical Mask: The German Occupation of Greece, 1941-1944

Climate Change and Wars Are Breaking Down the Foundations of Civilization

Τhe Climate Summit in the United Arab Emirates did the Bidding of the Petroleum Billionaires

Greek History Writing

Climate Summit at the Petroleum Kingdom

Why Was the Antikythera Mechanism So Far Ahead of its Time?

Pandora’s New Arms Race

Hellas in the Mediterranean World

Humanity at Risk

Slaughter of the American Buffalo

Pope Francis: the World is Collapsing

Expendable Endangered Species

Climate Chaos and the Deserts

Climate Catastrophe: A Worldwide Exploding Bomb

Cosmic Foolishness

Poseidonia Meadows in Greece at Grave Risk