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Mark Stoll

@markstoll.bsky.social

Environmental historian, author of Profit: An Environmental History (2023) and Inherit the Holy Mountain: Religion and the Rise of American Environmentalism (2015). https://www.markstoll.net/ Professor at @texastechuniv.bsky.social

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University of Washington Press@uwapress.uw.edu · 2d ago

Stephen Pyne, author of UNDYING FIRE, asks, "Why is it that countries that we think of as modernized—those that have money, science, technology—are the ones that are being clobbered?" The answer isn't just climate—it's also how we've changed the land itself. Read more in The New Yorker:

The New Yorker@newyorker.com · 3d ago

Across Spain, France, England, and much of Europe, this year has seen extreme wildfires. Why are flames erupting in this particular way, in this particular moment in time? www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

Hayden L. Nelson 🌲🐺🦫🔥🪵@haydenlnelson.bsky.social · 2d ago

I recently wrote a couple of articles on the history of forest fires and fire prevention in MN, one an overview and one more in-depth. #envhist #MinnesotaHistory #Wildfire @mprnews.org @minnpost.bsky.social Links to the articles: niche-canada.org/2026/06/13/t... www.mnhs.org/mnopedia/sea...

MPR News@mprnews.org · 2d ago

There was a new fire detected over the weekend — the lightning-caused Finstad Fire, burning near Finstad Lake near Buyck. It was last reported to be just a tenth of an acre; crews were dropping water on the fire to try to keep it from spreading.

Chris Baraniuk@chrisbaraniuk.com · 2d ago

NEW: Big new feature from me about offshore wind farms as anchors for wildlife! For example: seals swimming *into* turbine towers to, apparently, hunt fish - and scour protection at the base of turbines used by sea creatures as a dwelling place. atmos.earth/science-and-...

The Sea Life Making a Home in Offshore Wind Farms | Atmos

Offshore wind farms can pose risks to birds and marine life. But their foundations also serve as artificial reefs, offering essential habit.

atmos.earth

Dr. Jessica M. DeWitt@jessicamdewitt.bsky.social · 2d ago

Companion read - "The Past, Present and Future of Forest Fires" by @haydenlnelson.bsky.social niche-canada.org/2026/06/13/t... @nichecanada.bsky.social #envhist #wildfires

The Past, Present, and Future of Forest Fires

Upfront costs–in research, in personnel, and in deployment–are essential for fire prevention. Yet today, as in the early twentieth century, the federal government, despite possessing knowledge indicat...

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2d ago

CARTOON OF THE DAY (if you know who made this let us know)

Tony Nuspl@tonynuspl.bsky.social · 6d ago

Yucatán residents say the waste oozing from hundreds of enormous hog farms is destroying the environment, the run-off contaminating aquifers. Mexican cenotes are the primary source of drinking water in the Yucatan Peninsula. #BigAg #CAFOs #industrialeaters #OmnivoresDilemma #waterpolitics #envhist

Drugs, hormones and excrement: the polluting pig mega-farms supplying pork to the world

Mexico is a leading international pork producer, but Yucatán residents say the waste oozing from hundreds of enormous hog farms is destroying the environment

theguardian.com

Joschka Meier@josserme.bsky.social · 5d ago

I've got a lot of sources about live in the rural Alps (1250-1600) that I want to make publicly accessible. But before I do so, I'd like to try & make it more difficult for AI-scrapers to gobble them up. Anyone have any ideas or tips? #skystorians #medievalsky #envhist #animalhistory #earlymodern

The dataset consists of a collection of over 1'600 sources, that were gathered and analysed for the research project “Living Landscapes: Environmental Adaptation and Resource Management by the Alpine Population, 1400–1550” [...]. This project investigates the rural Alpine region from Valais to Tyrol and South Tyrol during the Late Middle Ages up to the beginning of the Early Modern Era to shed light on how people and animals lived in and used alpine spaces and how the natural environment, in turn, influenced their lives. These questions are explored through an examination of the collective and communal use and management of space and resources, with a focus on the closely interlinked topics of transportation, livestock husbandry, and the Alpwirtschaft, which were of paramount importance to Alpine communities. The research project also looks at social and environmental history more broadly including topics like intra- and inter-municipal conflicts and cooperation, labor practices, the acquisiton and transmission of knowledge in village communities and human-animal relationships. [...] The dataset and the collections created from it are an extensive and representative selection of relevant sources from all source editions and archival holdings used in the research project. Their publication not only serves as a reference for the dissertation resulting from the research project but is also intended to provide other researchers with easy access to the project’s research data and the interesting sources from the rural Alpine area. [...] Detailed descriptions, summaries, copies, images, and/or transcriptions are available for all sources, which, due to factors such as the amount of work required to prepare them for publication, image rights, and similar considerations, cannot be published at this time. However, this information can be requested and shared on a case-by-case basis and all interested parties are encouraged to reach outThese are collections of sources (or rather the corresponding information), which contain the themes that are mentioned in title of the collection. More information on these themes, collections and their significance can be found in the dissertation. They have been published indivually on Zenodo to ensure clarity and to facilitate efficient access: Sammlung Amtszwang [obligation of villagers to assume an office if elected, wether they wanted to or not] Version 1.0.0, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.21722273 Sammlung Auenschutz [protection of river meadows] Version 1.0.0, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.21722479 Sammlung Bluembsuech [grazing in forests] Version 1.0.0, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.21722604 Sammlung Feuerprävention [fire prevention] Version 1.0.0, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.21722703 Sammlung Gemeine Arbeit [communal work duties] Version 1.0.0, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.21722764 Regarding this topic, as well as the important role of women in carrying out communal work tasks, see: Meier, Joschka Sergej: Toil and Trouble: The Labour, Duties and Rights of Women in Alpine Communities in the Late Middle Ages and Early Modern Period. In: Journal of Medieval History 52/3 (2026): 331-352, here p. 339-346. DOI: 10.1080/03044181.2026.2616283. - cooperative grazing practices - hay regulations - how long cut lumber may sit unused - numerical alp rights - horses in Raetia - areas to protect livestock against the sun and insects - wolves and bears -provisions to put rings into pig's noses - sheep -rights to seek refuge from snow and storms with livestock - pigs - laminitis prevention - condemning profit at the expense of the community - scales - ways which were only used during winter - literally winter livestock, the amount of animals someone could feed with their own produce - access to water for livestock - communal) breeding animals - water hygiene Due to character limits I unfortunately can't provide alt text for the entirety of what's visible in the picture
Joschka Meier@josserme.bsky.social · last mo.

Too hot to think or write, so I worked on publishing the dataset of my research instead. Turns out it's pretty chunky! 1'000+ pages of sources about life in the Alps from the 13th to the 17th cent. Hope it'll help others, so that they don't have go through as many editions & archives as I did

The picture shows a screenshot of a project on Zenodo: "Quellenbestände zur Geschichte des ländlichen Alpenraumes im Spätmittelalter und Frühen Neuzeit Authors/Creators: Meier, Joschka Sergej (Project leader) Affiliations: 1. University of Bern 2. Swiss National Science Foundation" Below that an opened File called "Gesamte Datensammlung V1" is visible, opened to page 718 of 1077: "Signatur: TLA, Pestarchiv Akte IX 011, Dokument 8 Datierungsangaben: 1541-05-23 Titel: «underricht von dem phleger zu Rodenekh und Mülbach clauss der Rodhalber dasselbs» Tags - Grobe Angaben zum Inhalt der Quelle: Transport, Pferde, Region, Grafschaft Tirol Relevanter Ort oder Ortschaft: "
NiCHE Canada@nichecanada.bsky.social · 4d ago

“From the 1970s, as Canada struggled around what we can recognize with hindsight as the neoliberal turn, paved with crises of energy and otherwise, Imperial sought transformative policy influence.” - Mack Penner niche-canada.org/2025/10/18/f... #envhist #cdnhist #energyhistory #neoliberalism

Fossil Fueling Neoliberalism: Notes on the Oilmen’s Market Crusade

Imperial Oil promoted neoliberal policies aligning corporate and national interests, shaping Canada’s energy politics and linking prosperity to fossil-fuel-driven economic dependence.

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Brent Toderian@brenttoderian.bsky.social · 5d ago

It would be easy to call this the “new normal“ but that’s incorrect. In actual fact, “normal” is going to keep getting worse and worse and worse. Just how bad it will get depends entirely on how fast & far we go on real, legitimate (not performative) #ClimateAction. We know how. It’s about will.

Nahel Belgherze@wxnb.bsky.social · 5d ago

Bordeaux, France, has now recorded more days above 40°C in 2026 alone than during the entire 105-year period from 1920 (when observations began) to 2025. This is deeply shocking.

Chris Nagano@charliesaito22.bsky.social · 5d ago

It’s as if SECDOI Burgum & US Flop & Waffle Service Director Nesvik are carefully going through the entire USFWS to identify & carpet bomb any program protecting wildlife or endangered species open.substack.com/pub/ourpubli...

A Quiet Rule Review Could Drain the Prairie Pothole Region, America’s “Duck Factory”

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service rule revision would drain thousands of tiny-but-vital wetlands across the northern Great Plains

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