EHN’s 8th Anniversary Retrospective

EHN is proud to celebrate eight years of publishing. To finish off this year’s anniversary week, the core editorial team selected three essays that spoke to them personally.

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Silent Springs, Windswept Seas: Notes from the Beinecke’s Rachel Carson Exhibit

“Silent Springs, Windswept Seas: Rachel Carson’s Environmental Vision,” an exhibit curated by Carla Baricz and James Kessenides, is on display on the second floor of Yale University’s Beinecke Library...

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Disorientation: Walking Through Finnskogen’s Fire History

Walking through Finnskogen reveals how fire, Forest Finn heritage, hidden traces and ecological restoration reshape our understanding of place.

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Disruptive Reciprocity: A Review of The US Military and the Pacific Environment

The edited volume explores how the Pacific environment influences and disrupts US military operations. Reviewed by Savannah Scott.

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Lakebody: Living Waters at Great Salt Lake

Saline lakes are declining around the world. The Great Salt Lake and its surrounding wetlands are a keystone ecosystem.

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The Return to Offshore: From Nuclear Power to Data Centers

What can we learn from the attempt to build an offshore nuclear power plant?

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Reclaiming the Visual, Ecologically: A Review of Methods for Ecocritical Art History

Barbara Martinović reviews Methods for Ecocritical Art History with a sharp and critical eye. The volume has 23 essays organized into six thematic sections and offers urgently needed methods for ecocr...

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Book Review: Lessons for a Warming Planet: A Vital History of U.S. Environmental Law

Authors Alejandro E. Camacho and Brigham Daniels intervene in debates on contemporary environmental legal scholarship by advancing the centrality of law both as a driver of environmental degradation a...

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Not Just Possums: Feral Cats, “Stone-Cold Killers,” and Conservation

How are the same media tactics which demonize possums now being applied to feral cats, targeted by Predator Free 2050 as the "stone-cold killers"?

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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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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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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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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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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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Community Letter | April 2026

new series + call for new editors

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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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Making Sense of… – Environmental History Now.

Posts about Making Sense of… written by Rae Ferner-Rose and María del Pilar Peralta Ardila

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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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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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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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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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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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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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January Community Letter

posts this month + a note from our new eic

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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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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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