Environmental History Now
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EHN showcases the environment-related work + expertise of grad students and ECRs who identify as women, trans and/or nonbinary people #EnvHist #EnvHum 🌱🌍
Alyssa Spence's new piece for EHN, on wildfires in in LA and Northern Mexico, is out now! #envhist #envhum envhistnow.com/2026/06/25/w...
Wildfires Across Borders: Comparing Impacts in Los Angeles and Northern Mexico
Wildfire seasons should not be framed as isolated spectacles. Thinking otherwise provides a basis for more coordinated disaster response and long-term adaptation strategies that address inequality rat...
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Thrilled to share a new piece in DOING ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY from Dr. Raechel Lutz about publishing edited collections #envhist #envhum
How to Publish an Edited Collection
Raechel Lutz shares some of what she knows - hoping more historians will take up this useful and fulfilling work.
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Today Katrine Ehnhuus helps us make sense of Europe's Arctic energy dilemma. This is the latest in our new series which unpacks current events through the lens of #envhist #envhum envhistnow.com/2026/06/05/m...
Making Sense of Europe’s Arctic Energy Dilemma
Arctic oil and gas projects are not quick fixes to Europe’s current energy challenges. Arctic oil is justified through the language of urgency and energy security, yet it cannot meaningfully address E...
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Thrilled to share the latest piece in our series POLITICS OF NATURE, by contributor Torrey Chin #envhist #envhum
A Pear Tree Grew In Dorchester
An essay on invasive Bradford pear trees in Massachusetts, weaving together ecological regulation, Boston’s pear history, racialized school busing, family memory, and the politics of belonging in chan...
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Come write with us at EHN! Graduate students and early career scholars who identify as women, trans, and/or nonbinary people (FLINTA*) are invited to submit abstracts for our next round of publications.
We're thrilled to share a piece reckoning with/making meaning from extinction by Olivia Davis & Risa Aria Schnebly, written for a special conference on “Making Amidst Extinction,” the results of which will be published in an upcoming special issue in Cultural Geographies #envhist #envhum
Of Ferrets and Phantoms
A lyrical nonfiction essay about searching for endangered Black-footed ferrets in Arizona’s Aubrey Valley, extinction, conservation, ecological loss, and the haunting presence of absence in the Anthro...
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Some updates on our community letter -- subscribe to keep up with us!
Community Letter | April 2026
new series + call for new editors
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Today, Robyn Gulliver is MAKING SENSE OF...fossil fuel marketing. Our new series helps you make sense of the news from an #envhist #envhum perspective.
Inherited Addiction: How Decades of Fossil Fuel Marketing Built the Historical Myths Fuelling Today’s Profits
If you’ve followed Australian news over the past two months, the sense of panic has been all-pervasive. Headlines about the fuel crisis blast from screen and podcasts tracking fuel supplies update …
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Need some Friday reading? Want to dig deeper into today's headlines? We're thrilled to launch EHN's newest series, MAKING SENSE OF... with two pieces from MarĂa del Pilar Peralta Ardila and Rae Ferner-Rose on hippos and polar bears. More soon! #envhist #envhum
Making Sense of… – Environmental History Now.
Posts about Making Sense of… written by Rae Ferner-Rose and MarĂa del Pilar Peralta Ardila
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Thrilled to share @maggiemcnulty.bsky.social latest post on postindustrial landscapes, resilience, and spatial justice in Denver #envhist #envhum
Desire in a Damaged Landscape: The Promise and Paradox of Denver’s Platte Farm Open Space
A community-led green space in Colorado reveals the juxtaposition of promises and tensions that co-exist in efforts to remediate land scarred by industry, sparking questions for environmental resea…
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Latest on EHN from @valeriazambianchi.bsky.social on metaphors for the earth system #envhist #envhum #histsci #histtech
Rethinking Incomplete Metaphors for the Earth System
We often hear about the Anthropocene, but what if it’s not the only way to understand our impact on Earth? Ideas like the noosphere and technosphere offer striking new ways to see humanity’s role o…
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WE're thrilled to feature this crosspost of @katiekung.bsky.social with Feministische Geo-RundMail, an online publication by the working group Feminist Geographies, as part of their Feminist Fabulative Futures issue #envhist #envhum envhistnow.com/2026/03/26/a...
A future with non-kins: 
the rape of a wallaby
In Aotearoa New Zealand, wallabies are invasive pests. In a world of “multispecies” relationship, what does it mean to be an invader? What forms of care, cruelty, and gendered violence emerge in th…
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Today we have "The Impact Assessment as Archive: Historical Approaches to Regulatory Documents from Alberta’s Oil Sands" by Felice Physioc Originally published with @envhistnow.bsky.social niche-canada.org/2026/03/26/t... #envhist #energy #oilsands #fossilfuels #alberta #cdnhist
Spring is the season of GERMINATION and we’re ready for new ideas to take root. 🌱 Submit your work now for our Spring issue! We’re looking for fresh perspectives and research that helps new conversations grow. Our spring deadline is March 31st for peer reviewed research. g-ehr.com/submit/
This week on EHN: Adrienne Brown reflects on doing #envhist #envhum in 2026
This is Fine: Studying Intersectional US Environmental History While it Burns Around Us
It is really hard to focus on the work in front of you when your field is burning around you.
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Thrilled to share our most recent book review from contributor & editor Evelyn Ramiel, discussing history, biology, and embodiment through the lens of #envhist #envhum
Sex Is a History: A Review of Performance all the Way Down by Richard O. Prum
Book review of Richard O. Prum’s book Performance all the Way Down, published by University of Chicago Press in 2023.
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"Re-relating to the yūsuichi as a wetland happens not despite histories of dispossession and state engineering, but because of and through them," writes Kimberly Fung in our latest FIELD NOTES piece #envhist #envhum
Fieldwork In-between: Walking and Cutting Grass in Japan’s Post-Mining Landscape
Walking through Ashio’s scarred mountains (Japan) and cutting grass along the Watarase River, fieldwork turns out to be less about gathering data and more about learning to sense how toxicity and c…
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Sharing some updates over on our monthly community letter #envhist #envhum
January Community Letter
posts this month + a note from our new eic
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“As an activist, I’d sat in many planning meetings trying to figure out why our campaigns were failing. But as an academic, I’d learnt that success garners much more research than failure," writes @regulliver.bsky.social in today's post. envhistnow.com/2026/01/29/c... #envhist #envhum
Counting What counts: Preserving environmental activism history
When the flyers, posters, and participants are lost or forgotten, so too is our understanding about how our shared environmental history has been shaped by activism.
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The @northernenvhistory.bsky.social's first seminar of the year is fast approaching! 27/1 2pm GMT Sign up below! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/snake-word...
Snake Words in Estonia: Nature and Nationalism in Andrus Kivirähk
The Northern Environmental History Network is thrilled to welcome Dr Alfie Howard to present on Snake Words in Estonia!
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Our first piece of 2026 is from Felice Physioc on regulatory documents, history, and impact assessments in our TOOLS FOR CHANGE SERIES #envhist #envhum envhistnow.com/2026/01/15/t...
The Impact Assessment as Archive: Historical Approaches to Regulatory Documents from Alberta’s Oil Sands
Canada’s recent embrace of Indigenous rights looks transformative on paper, but in the Alberta oil sands, a different story unfolds.
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Looking for a seasonal or festive read? Check out Roisin Gilloch Boyle’s latest for EHN, on snow globes and the Anthropocene #envhist #envhum envhistnow.com/2025/12/24/o...
On Snow Globes
Snow globes bear witness to their times and are the perfect curio for the Anthropocene. What would our snow globe of the Anthropocene be made of?
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Looking for a seasonal or festive read? Check out Roisin Gilloch Boyle’s latest for EHN, on snow globes and the Anthropocene #envhist #envhum envhistnow.com/2025/12/24/o...
On Snow Globes
Snow globes bear witness to their times and are the perfect curio for the Anthropocene. What would our snow globe of the Anthropocene be made of?
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We're delighted to share a new post today from Lamlela Plaatjie, on land and water use, Indigenous knowledge, and decolonial praxis #envhist #envhum envhistnow.com/2025/12/10/p...
Primordial Waters: Being and Doing the Urban Indigenous
Guided by an ancestral call to recover the Primordial Water in Cape Town, this essay reflects on how human–nature connections continue to adapt, resist, and reimagine themselves in contemporary Sou…
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We're thrilled to share a breathtaking new essay today from @critical-lycan.bsky.social on multispecies sanctuary, queerness, and wolfdogs #envhist #envhum
Queering Sanctuary and Un/Becoming with Wolf/Dogs
If there is anything to be salvaged from the fraught concept of “wildness,” it is in the wily tenacity and audacious hopefulness of these queer taxonomic renegades.
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Don't miss the chance to submit to Germinate! The winter deadline for our peer reviewed section is December 31st. Submissions are welcome between 1,200 and 2,000 words that connect the environmental present to its past. We're excited to read your work! g-ehr.com/submit/
We're thrilled to share a breathtaking new essay today from @critical-lycan.bsky.social on multispecies sanctuary, queerness, and wolfdogs #envhist #envhum
Queering Sanctuary and Un/Becoming with Wolf/Dogs
If there is anything to be salvaged from the fraught concept of “wildness,” it is in the wily tenacity and audacious hopefulness of these queer taxonomic renegades.
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Today we're spotlighting friend of EHN, @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social, who has helped keep us sustainable during our fundraising drive this year #envhist #envhum
Another round of gratitude today for Dr. Robin Hartanto Honggare for supporting EHN and keeping us sustainable! Chip in at ko-fi.com/envhistnow #envhist #envhum
This Monday, we want to thank Dr. Tina Adcock for her ongoing support of EHN! Join Dr. Adcock and many others in keeping us going ko-fi.com/envhistnow #envhist #envhum
