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"[This paper] provides a fresh perspective on the role of animals in forging human’s understanding of the ocean’s depths, and on the interplay between science, technology, and myth in defining the human relationship to the natural world." #animalhist #oceanhist #envhist #envhum

From racial capitalism and fire ecology to urban nightscapes, our editor-in-chief, @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social, has the low down of our most-read articles pubished in January 2026.

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#envhist #cdnhist #urbanhistory @urbanhistorya.bsky.social #fire

The Edible Windbreak: Caragana on the Prairies Settler agriculture reshaped prairie grasslands; drought-resistant Caragana windbreaks protected soil and crops, reflecting cultural efforts to remake landscapes and define prairie homesteads.

This conversation will be based on @kesiatk.bsky.social's 2018 CHESS reflection, "The Edible Windbreak: Caragana on the Prairies," which is our 12th most-read article of all time: niche-canada.org/2018/07/12/t...

#aghist #CHESS #envhist #cdnhist #prairies

If you want to write about the demolition of the US Forest Service with some historical context, our Tracking the Effects: Environmental History and the Current United States Federal Administration series is accepting submissions on an ongoing basis.

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#envhist

"Book of Nature" header image for advertisement, Peale's Museum in Philadelphia, July 1810. Scudder's Museum in New York also used "Book of Nature" language in its advertising.

Third installment of The Public Sphere of Birds, collecting U.S. newspaper items related to birds, 1801-1810. Includes documentation of the promotion and reception of Wilson's Ornithology and the increasing use of bird metaphors in political discourse. #envhist #envhum archive.org/details/publ...

Check out Jennifer Eaglin's review of Maria Rentetzi, Angela N. H. Creager, & M. Susan Lindee, "Negotiating Radiation Protection in the Nuclear Age," published in 2025 by @upittpress.bsky.social; review now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhist #nuclear #envhum
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Colour plate of range of Hemiptera in and out of water from Sketches of British Insects, London, Groombridge, 1888; Image of young woman in formal Edwardian dress; text quote.

Before #freshwater #bioacoustics - Dr. Kathleen Carpenter @aberuni.bsky.social @biomcgill.bsky.social seemed to be contemplating the idea in her textbook? - Life in Inland Waters (1928) - for @wildaudiojack.bsky.social

#FridayFlashback #envhist #womeninscience #historyofscience #insects #Notonecta

Energy History | Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine

Dear #envhist community, I will be presenting my draft paper “Wind and Site Engineers, 'behind the turbines' 1971-1999" at the CHSTM Energy History Working Group on April 10th. Feel free to join and/or contact me cc @eseh.bsky.social @leruche.bsky.social @nichecanada.bsky.social

Sneak peek into what my book is about, now that it is off to the typesetter—TOC for #territorialnatures is up on the @uchicagopress.bsky.social site.

Thanks to my manuscript workshop, I abandoned chronological argument for a thematic one, embedding it into the book structure.

#envhist #histstm

The latest issue of Environment and History (32.2) is out now! Subscribers can read here: liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/toc/whpeh/32... 🗃️ #envhist

Mes amies, I’ll be in #montreal soon to give a book talk on #territorialnatures, hosted by @dcporter.bsky.social:

FASCIST SHEEP (yes, really)
Land and Livestock in Inner Mongolia under Japanese Rule

Wednesday April 8 at 4:00 PM

McGill University
680 Sherbrooke, Room 1041

#envhist #envirohist

Recording - Mountain Voices: Memory, Story, and Permanence In celebration of World Day for Glaciers, on March 20th, the editors of Mountain Voices: The Mountain Legacy Project and a Century of Change in Western Canada gathered for a roundtable reflection on t...

The recording of our Mountain Voices: Memory, Story, and Permanence roundtable, co-hosted with @ucalgarypress.bsky.social, is now available!

Absolutely wonderful 1.5 hour reflection & discussion between the volume's editors and a few contributors.

niche-canada.org/2026/04/02/r...

#envhist

Esp in #histstm #histsci #envhist

Check Victor Naranjo's review of Joshua Howe & and Alexander Lemons's "Warbody: A Marine Sniper and the Hidden Violence of Modern Warfare," published in 2025 by @wwnorton.com; review now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social; #envhist #envhum #pollution
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Newspaper articles with title - Home-coming of the Swallows

The #swallows have returned to #Wales! Now reported on #socialmedia but once annually recorded in the #newspaper - especially when they were as thick "as flies on a fly paper" on the bridges of #Aberystwyth - from Cambrian News & Merionethshire Standard, 27 April 1900
#BirdingWales #envhist #nature

Whale Sharks: A Window Into the Ocean and Ourselves Whale sharks gather each year at Ningaloo Reef, their seasonal appearances drawing intensive human attention, reminding us that the story of the ocean is also our own story.

Each year, whale sharks gather at Ningaloo Reef in Australia, and their seasonal appearance may remind us that the story of the ocean is also our own story. Learn more in our latest Arcadia article by Laura-Marie Dehne, illustrated by her beautiful photograps. #envhum #envhist

Call for Submissions - Succession IV: Queering the Environment – “Queer Joy” We wish to build off of scholarship and lived knowledge that envisions queer joy as an affective or emotional way of knowing, specifically a way of knowing and being in relation with the environment a...

Heyo! - @tinaadcock.bsky.social, Sarah, and I decided to extend the deadline for Succession IV: Queering the Environment – “Queer Joy” to APRIL 13th!!

It's hard to focus on joy right now. That's why we chose the theme.

niche-canada.org/2026/02/28/c...

#envhist #envhum #queerecology

Call for Submissions - Succession IV: Queering the Environment – “Queer Joy” We wish to build off of scholarship and lived knowledge that envisions queer joy as an affective or emotional way of knowing, specifically a way of knowing and being in relation with the environment a...

The proposal deadline for Succession IV: Queering the Environment – “Queer Joy” has been extended to April 13th!

Send @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social, @tinaadcock.bsky.social, and Sarah York-Bertram your ideas related to queer joy.

niche-canada.org/2026/02/28/c...

#envhist #envhum #queerecology

#envhist

Îyâmnathka: Yamnuska Climber, Ben Gadd, recounts lifelong connection to Îyâmnathka, early challenges, family traditions, and urges protecting the mountain from development and exploitation.

Today we have "Îyâmnathka: Yamnuska" by Ben Gadd

This is the latest featured excerpt from Mountain Voices, part of our Canadian History and Environment series with @ucalgarypress.bsky.social

niche-canada.org/2026/04/01/i...

#envhist #cdnhist #mountains #books

We've extended the deadline for Succession IV: Queering the Environment until April 13th!

niche-canada.org/2026/02/28/c...

#envhist #envhum #queerecology

100th speaker! 🥳

Come join the S&T in Asia online seminar series @ Harvard for this talk by Michitake Aso on Agent Orange and dioxin knowledge in postwar Vietnam.

🗓 Tue (4/14)
🕥 10:30 am ET
📍 Over Zoom

Register: seow.scholars.harvard.edu/STinAsia%E2%...

#histstm #envhist #histmed #histsci

Two weeks left to submit your proposal for this workshop on the history of artificial inland waterways 👇
#histtech #envhist

First @jhokjournal.bsky.social
article of 2026 by Anne Eriksen!

#histknow #histsci #envhist

It was a great pleasure to be part of this project! Thank you so much, @nkleinoeder.bsky.social and @aselmeyer.bsky.social, and happy publication day! 🎉 #envirotech #histtech #envhist

Check out Kim Jarvis's review of Edward I. Pitts's "Sketching the Adirondacks: Letters from the Wilderness," published in 2025 by Syracuse University Press; review now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhist #envhum #ecocrit
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Where mining and conservation meet Far from signaling a break from the past, the convergence of mining and conservation in West Africa underscores a recurring pattern that stretches back to colonialism.

And the second in the series. #Biodiversity and carbon offsets—cornerstones of neoliberal conservation—have become critical tools for mining companies, with consequential social and ecological costs in #Liberia and #Guinea.
#envhist #convivialconservation

2026 Conference: Cross-Pollinations

Anybody else going to #ALECC this June in Edmonton? Still trying to pull the details together, including finding who some fellow travellers might be! #envhum #envhist www.ualberta.ca/en/literatur...

Worth re-sharing for #envhist and #envhum folks! We’re excited to feature new research into extraction in the Midwest, past and present.

Check out Savannah Paige Murray's review of Sally Sierer Bethea's "Keeping the Chattahoochee: Reviving and Defending a Great Southern River," published in 2025 by @ugapress.bsky.social; review now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhist #envhum #ecocrit #rivers
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