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Ellsworth Huntington (), American geographer, was the most notable exponent of environmentalism in the English-speaking world in the twentieth century, rivaled only by the Australian geographer Thomas Griffith Taylor.

Trained as a geologist, Huntington took a post in at a small college in Turkey; after two years at Harvard, , he was attached to the Pumpelly expedition for geographic and rcheological explorations in Turkestan and Iran. This experience, and further travels in India, Tibet, and Siberia, inspired his first major work, The Pulse of Asia (), in which he stressed the role of climatic change, especially desiccation, in initiating chain reactions of nomadic movements that culminated in such upheavals as the Mongol, Mogul, and Manchu invasions.

From until his death Huntington was associated with Yale University; he traveled extensively in all continents except Antarctica.

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