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Swedish artist Roland Svennsson's picturesque depiction of the eating of Mount Nimba. Credit: Roland Svensson, 1969. Courtesy of the family of Roland Svensson.

Swedish artist Roland Svennsson's picturesque depiction of the eating of Mount Nimba. Credit: Roland Svensson, 1969. Courtesy of the family of Roland Svensson.

Thrilled to be part of an @envirohistory.bsky.social Forum on Subterranean Archives with co-author Emmanuelle Roth. In "Visual Tailings," a surfeit of photos & films born of industrial extraction by a Swedish #mining co. in Liberia makes for unruly remains.
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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...

Congratulations to @mwarsh.bsky.social for winning the Leopold-Hidy Award for the article "Seasonal Harvests: Migration, Reproduction, and Religion in the Early Modern Spanish Tuna Fisheries." @uchicagopress.bsky.social has taken down the paywall to the article:

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ASEH Virtual Exhibit Welcome to the UNC Press Virtual Exhibit for the American Society for Environmental History. Scroll through our newest releases! We’re looking forward to

Are you at the American Society for Environmental History conference? If so, be sure to stop by our booth! If not, you can still join in on the fun and browse our virtual exhibit 👇

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Attending the American Society for Environmental History meeting this year? Whether you're attending or not, you can browse our virtual exhibit. Check out our featured books and get 30% off & free domestic shipping with promo code EX58258 here: bit.ly/UCPEXASEH #ASEH2026

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If you haven’t yet, you should really elevate your Sunday (or any other day tbh) by reading this essay by Camden Burd in @envirohistory.bsky.social

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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. ...

Ahead of new print alert! You can now read Camden Burd's Gallery Essay "Playing Gaia: Simulation, Science, and the Significance of Video Games for Environmental History" from the January 2026 issue. #envhist #envhum

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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...

Ahead of new print alert! You can now read Sophie Brockmann's "Heritage and Environment: Archaeology at a United Fruit Company Site, 1909–1939" from the January 2026 issue. #evnhist #envhum

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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...

Ahead of new print alert! You can now read Megan Ann Black's "The 'Eco-Phony' World’s Fair: Expo ’74 and the Bind of Being Friends of the Earth" from the January 2026 issue. #envhist #envhum #environmentalism

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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...

Ahead of new print alert! You can now read @mathijsboom.bsky.social and Jip van Besouw's "Rising Seas, Sinking Lands: Reckoning with Local and Global Sea Level in the Early Modern Netherlands" from the January 2026 issue. #envhist #envhum

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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...

Ahead of new print alert! You can now read @ruthgamble.bsky.social and Hongzhang Xu's "Colonizing the Lu’s Realm: How Lowland Aquacultures Transformed the Upper Brahmaputra’s Waters in the Twentieth Century" from the January 2026 issue. #envhist #envhum

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Applications sought for next editor(s) of Environmental History. For more information please visit the ASEH website: www.aseh.org

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Our October 2025 issue is now available! If you are a print subscriber look for it in the mail! #envhist #envhum
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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...

Ahead of new print alert! You can now read @elsadevienne.bsky.social's "Making Plastics Count: Citizen Science Beach Cleanups and the Ocean Plastic Pollution Crisis (1980s–2020s)" from the October 2025 issue. #envhist #envhum #pollution

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Read "The Nature of Planetary Habitability: A Conceptual History of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services" from Environmental History and learn more about the history of biodiversity as a concept. Find it here: ow.ly/TpT750Wy4HR @envirohistory.bsky.social

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Thanks to everyone who made the SOLCHA meeting in Rio such a success. Obrigado! Keep the manuscripts coming.

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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...

Ahead of new print alert! You can now read Samuel J. Klee's "Drawing Barbed Wire: The Tule Lake Scrapbook of 1942" from the October 2025 issue. #envhist #envhum

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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 ...

Ahead of new print alert! You can now read Max Chervin Bridge's "Still a Silent World: Fish Ears, Whale Politics, and the Science of Ocean Noise, 1941–1990" from the October 2025 issue. #envhist #envhum #oceanhistory #sensoryhistory #animalhistory

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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...

Ahead of new print alert! You can now read Sabujkoli Mukherjee's "Muddy Lines and Murky Waters: The Making of a Colonial Deltaic Forest, 1816–1828" from the October 2025 issue. #envhist #envhum #foresthistory #IndianHistory

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Environmental History | Vol 30, No 3

Our July 2025 issue is now available! If you are a print subscriber look for it in the mail! #envhist #envhum

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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...

Ahead of new print alert! You can now read Richard Yu-Cheng Shih's "Reeds, Snails, and Parasites: Schistosomiasis and Wetland Ecology in China’s Yangzi Delta from the 1870s to 1949" from the July 2025 issue. #evnhist #envhum

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Ahead of new print alert! You can now read Adelaide Mandeville's "Man-Made Weather: The Promise, Peril, and Uncertainty of Cloud Seeding in Postwar America" from the July 2025 issue. #envhist #envhum

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The Bureau of Livestock and Motorcycles: Measuring Leisure in the Bureau of Land Management’s Off-Road Era | Environmental History Abstract This article examines the rise of off-road motorcycling in California and argues that the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) became, in effect, the “Bureau of Livestock and Motorcycles” in the l...

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@jsizek.bsky.social's "The Bureau of Livestock and Motorcycles: Measuring Leisure in the Bureau of Land Management’s Off-Road Era" from the July 2025 issue. #envhist #envhum #BureauOfLandManagement

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Ahead of new print alert! You can now read @mwarsh.bsky.social's "Seasonal Harvests: Migration, Reproduction, and Religion in the Early Modern Spanish Tuna Fisheries" from the July 2025 issue. #envhist #envhum #fisheries

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Environmental History: Leopold-Hidy Award

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Congratulations to Jack Bouchard, who won the 2024 Leopold-Hidy Award, given annually to the best article in 𝘌𝘯𝘷𝘪𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘭 𝘏𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺. You can read Bouchard's article at the link below. The paywall will be down until the end of May.

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Environmental History | Vol 30, No 2

Our April 2025 issue is now available! If you are a print subscriber look for it in the mail! #envhist #envhum
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If you have suggestions for a media review, or would like to be considered as a reviewer for upcoming material, please contact our media review editor at Dr. Scout Blum at sblum@troy.edu.

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Environmental History is pleased to announce that we will be soliciting media reviews for future issues of the journal. Media reviews will supplement book reviews in the journal and will cover games, museum exhibits, films and documentaries, podcasts, and other media.

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The ASEH has issued a statement on the closure of the EPA Museum. Read it here: aseh.org/resources/Do...

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The Price of Adaptation: Visualizing Climate Change in the Greenland Sea, 1596–1800 | Environmental History Abstract Between the late sixteenth and early eighteenth centuries, waves of cooling associated with the Little Ice Age increased the thickness and extent of sea ice across the Greenland Sea, a vast e...

Ahead of new print alert! You can now read "The Price of Adaptation: Visualizing Climate Change in the Greenland Sea, 1596–1800" by @dagomardegroot.bsky.social and Rachel Kase from the April 2025 issue. #envhist #envhum #climate

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