Living Among the Logwood: Maya Forests, Liminal Amphibians, and Quotidian Connectivities in the Laguna de Términos, 1667–1717 | Environmental History: Vol 31, No 4

AbstractDuring the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, the forests, wetlands, savannas, and mangroves of Laguna de Términos, the world’s largest tidal lagoon by volume, became a key site ...

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Distilling the Forest: Wood Alcohol and Industrial Chemistry in the Early Twentieth Century | Environmental History: Vol 31, No 4

AbstractIn the early twentieth century, American chemists sought new ways to produce fuel and organic chemicals from the nation’s forests through improved wood distillation technologies. Remote hinter...

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Machines Writing Histories Using Insect Algorithms: Toward an Age of Environmental Historiography for Artificial Intelligence | Environmental History: Vol 31, No 3

AbstractInsect-inspired algorithms have broad appeal in artificial intelligence (AI). They power the labeling, selection, and grouping of data from the past, including the human past. Insect-inspired ...

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Hunting, Environmental Change, and the Defaunation of Wildlife in Baringo, Kenya (1840–1977) | Environmental History: Vol 31, No 3

AbstractThis article takes a long-term view of the history of Kenya’s wildlife, to consider the gradual defaunation of wildlife that took place over the first half of the twentieth century. In the Bar...

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Common Reed and Giant Cane: Transnational Plant Lives and Hydro-Modernities in the Socialist Danube Delta | Environmental History: Vol 31, No 3

AbstractThis article explores the historical emergence of the Danube Delta as part of the larger story of hydro-modernity—that is, the creation of political and scientific representations of dynamic l...

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Watershed Protection as Dispossession in Japanese-Occupied Taiwan | Environmental History: Vol 31, No 2

Abstract Environmentalists have long seen in the watershed the promise of an ethic of stewardship predicated on the recognition that no action affecting a waterway can be free from upstream influences...

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“A Good Tree Is a Fast-Growing Tree”: South Korea’s Reforestation in the 1950s and the Making of Cold War Ecology in East Asia | Environmental History: Vol 31, No 2

Abstract This article reexamines the early history of reforestation in postwar South Korea, focusing on the 1950s, a decade typically overshadowed by the authoritarian tree-planting campaigns of the P...

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Ecologies in Flight: Black Environmental Knowledge and Human-Bird Interactions Between the Caribbean and Britain | Environmental History: Vol 31, No 2

Abstract People interacted with birds and created ecological knowledge about them while enslaved and during the transition to emancipation from 1848 onward in the Danish colony of St. Croix. These Bla...

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Seasonal Harvests: Migration, Reproduction, and Religion in the Early Modern Spanish Tuna Fisheries | Environmental History: Vol 30, No 3

Abstract This article argues that the early modern Spanish tuna fisheries were a compelling maritime cultural theater in which species, calendars, and cultural practices collided. Combining the accoun...

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Playing Gaia: Simulation, Science, and the Significance of Video Games for Environmental History | Environmental History

Abstract In 1990, video game publisher Maxis released SimEarth. Designed by Will Wright, the game tasked users to consider atmospheric, geologic, and biological variables to simulate a global system. ...

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Heritage and Environment: Archaeology at a United Fruit Company Site, 1909–1939 | Environmental History

Abstract The process of creating archaeological heritage sites is necessarily rooted in the environments that surround them. This was particularly true for the Maya archaeological site of Quiriguá, lo...

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The “Eco-Phony” World’s Fair: Expo ’74 and the Bind of Being Friends of the Earth | Environmental History

Abstract By the summer of 1974, David Brower had turned his environmental organization Friends of the Earth into a leading proponent of global environmentalism. However, after returning from the secon...

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Rising Seas, Sinking Lands: Reckoning with Local and Global Sea Level in the Early Modern Netherlands | Environmental History

Abstract This article examines notions of rising seas in the early modern Dutch Republic and explores how Dutch water management spurred efforts to think and act across scales. Focusing on a 1731 repo...

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Colonizing the Lu’s Realm: How Lowland Aquacultures Transformed the Upper Brahmaputra’s Waters in the Twentieth Century | Environmental History

Abstract This article argues that first the British, then the Indian, and especially the Chinese states extended their control over the upper Brahmaputra River’s waters in Tibet and the Himalaya, marg...

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Making Plastics Count: Citizen Science Beach Cleanups and the Ocean Plastic Pollution Crisis (1980s–2020s) | Environmental History

Abstract In the 1980s, women in Oregon, Texas, and New Jersey organized the first “citizen beach cleanups,” directing volunteers to not simply clean up but collate data on the number and type of trash...

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Drawing Barbed Wire: The Tule Lake Scrapbook of 1942 | Environmental History

Abstract In December 1942, teachers and Japanese Americans at the Tule Lake Relocation Center created a scrapbook for Elmer Shirrell, the camp’s outgoing director. The scrapbook reveals Tule Lake teac...

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Still a Silent World: Fish Ears, Whale Politics, and the Science of Ocean Noise, 1941–1990 | Environmental History

Abstract This article brings together a history of more-than-human sensory life across the multitude of underwater environments that shaped knowledge of and concern about the effects of anthropogenic ...

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Muddy Lines and Murky Waters: The Making of a Colonial Deltaic Forest, 1816–1828 | Environmental History

Abstract This article focuses on the extensive, low-lying mangrove forests in the lower Gangetic Delta, commonly called the Sundarbans, in the early decades of the nineteenth century. The English East...

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Reeds, Snails, and Parasites: Schistosomiasis and Wetland Ecology in China’s Yangzi Delta from the 1870s to 1949 | Environmental History

Abstract This article highlights the necessity of historicizing wetland ecologies in order to understand the history of zoonotic disease in modern China. It examines how increasing commercial cultivat...

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