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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A large piece of turf #nature #naturalhistory #histsci #arthistory #environment #envhist

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Our Tracking the Effects: Environmental History and the Current United States Federal Administration series is accepting submissions on a rolling basis - niche-canada.org/2025/04/11/c...

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Call for Papers - Mountains, Danger, and Endangerment Danger and endangerment have long been central to the experiences, knowledges, and governance of mountain environments.

Call for Papers – Mountains, Danger, and Endangerment
12-13 November 2026
Geneva (Switzerland)
Proposal Deadline: 30 April 2026

"Danger and endangerment have long been central to the experiences, knowledges, and governance of mountain environments."

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#envhist

Antarctic whales’ remarkable comeback is threatened by krill fishing Huge industrial trawlers are competing for krill – the main food source for whales – in the Southern Ocean, removing vital nutrients from the ecosystem

"In the Southern Ocean, whalers slaughtered more than 2 million whales during the 20th century, pushing a number of species to the brink."
#SixthExtinction #Seaspiracy #overfishing #ecocide
#SeaOfSlaughter #Anthropocene #envhist
#MarineLifeConservation
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Aerial view of the Syncrude Mildred Lake site, an Athabasca oil sands mine works in northeast Alberta, Canada.

ICYMI:

"As we stand on the precipice of missed 2030 climate targets, EIAs contain hundreds of pages justifying the expansion of oil and gas and adjacent industries.” - Felice Physioc

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#envhist #oilsands #energy #energyhistory

Poster for the talk featuring a French imperial soldier attacking cholera with a phenol cannon.

Will be presenting some of my work on phenol disinfection, cholera policy and socio-environmental violence this Thursday at 7pm BST!

Info: www.chstm.org/group/health...

#frenchstudies #histmed #histsci #medhum #envhum #envhist #hstm

Check out Tim Middleton's review of Kevin O'Brien's "Meeting the Enemy: The Fossil Fuel Industry and the Power of Christian Climate Resistance," published in 2025 by Fortress Press; review now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhum #envhist #energy #climate
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Books Available to review for H-Environment Books Available for Review for H-Environment Below are the books currently available for review for H-Environment. Interested in reviewing one? Please email me at dmccahey@uci.edu. If we haven’t met,...

Now that we all left KC after a wonderful #ASEH #ASEH2026, continue the scholar conversation by reviewing a book for H-Environment! Check out my list of books below! #envhist #envhum #ecocrit #aghist #energy #animalhist #sustainability #anthropocene #plantstudies
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#otd 50 yrs ago, #PEI launched Energy Days, w/ int'l experts speaking on the future of energy - a 1st step in PEI's plan to become a world leader in self-sufficiency & sustainability.

This spring @joshmacfadyen.bsky.social & I are writing about the spirit of ‘76. Watch the skies.

#cdnhist #envhist

Stream emerging from sand dunes; overcast sky; distant mountains

Big sky country - Morfa Bychan - a truly maritime #nature reserve @northwaleswt.bsky.social

#Porthmadog #conservation #seaside #sand #dune #Beach #saltmarsh #stream #envhist #BigSky #landscape #coast #photography #Wales 💙
www.northwaleswildlifetrust.org.uk/nature-reser...

© CBC/Radio-Canada 2026. All rights reserved.

Apparently I was on this today. Listen anyway. #envhist
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Urban Nightscapes and the Anthropocene Pritchard argues that nightscape is both a useful and important analytic category for environmental as well as urban historians.

4) "Urban Nightscapes and the Anthropocene" by @sarabpritchard.bsky.social - niche-canada.org/2026/01/26/u...

#envhist #urbanhistory @urbanhistorya.bsky.social

Remnant: Urban Prairie Teaches Lessons in Loss Volunteering revealed urban conservation’s failures as Saskatoon Grasslands lost biodiversity, accountability, and fescue prairie, prompting calls for memorialization and justice.

3) "Remnant: Urban Prairie Teaches Lessons in Loss" by Carmen Gilmore - niche-canada.org/2026/01/15/r...

#yxe #urbanhistory #envhist @urbanhistorya.bsky.social

Cardboard Battlefields in 1812: The Invasion of Canada Educational War of 1812 board game represents Indigenous allies but oversimplifies environmental factors and diverse Indigenous experiences, reflecting historiographical limits.

2) "Cardboard Battlefields in 1812: The Invasion of Canada" by @jakebreadman.bsky.social - niche-canada.org/2026/01/07/c...

#cdnhist #envhist #boardgames

Chasing Flames: Roving Methodologies and Narratives Towards Future Pyrosocial Worlds Aadita Chaudhury's dissertation uses fire, phlogiston, and speculative methods to expose racial capitalism, valuation, and more-than-human knowledge worlds globally.

1) "Chasing Flames: Roving Methodologies and Narratives Towards Future Pyrosocial Worlds" by @aadita.bsky.social - niche-canada.org/2026/01/14/c...

#envhist #wildfires #STS #fire

Our most-read articles published in January!

Links in the thread below.

#envhist #cdnhist #urbanhistory

Read "'Chemical Castration': White Genocide and Male Extinction in Rhetoric of Endocrine Disruption" by Meg Perret from our first Succession: Queering the Environment series here: niche-canada.org/2020/06/09/c...

#queerecology #envhist #envhum #scicomm

Call for Submissions - Tracking the Effects: Environmental History and the Current United States Federal Administration NiCHE is soliciting submissions of blog posts that help document the effects of the current United States federal administration on the discipline of environmental history and the practices of environ...

Our Tracking the Effects: Environmental History and the Current United States Federal Administration series is accepting submissions on an ongoing basis - niche-canada.org/2025/04/11/c...

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‘There’s biological treasure here’: Chile’s endemic seals gain protection with new marine park Sixty years after the discovery of a colony of Juan Fernández fur seals, previously thought to be extinct, a landmark agreement extends ‘no take’ zone around the wildlife-rich archipelago

Juan Fernández archipelago, Pacific Ocean: the species Arctocephalus philippi was nearly hunted into oblivion, in the 19th century

#SixthExtinction
#SeaOfSlaughter
#Anthropocene
#envhist
#MarineLifeConservation
#EnvironmentalStewardship

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@anthropoceneucl.bsky.social is delighted that our #UCL200 June series on 'Emergence/Emergency' will kick off with @po-dittmar.bsky.social & an interdisciplinary discussion of 'The invention of the animal'.

Bentham House, 1 June 2-5pm—email for details.

#medievalsky #Anthropocene #envhum #envhist

Check out Magdalena Stawkowski's review of Melanie Arndt's "Chernobyl Children: A Transnational History of a Nuclear
Disaster," published in 2025 by @universitypress.cambridge.org; review now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhist #envhum #energy
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‘A toxic punch’: fears Russia’s war is pushing the Black Sea and its dolphins past tipping point As species vanish and the unique ecosystem radically changes, Ukrainian scientists can only wait until it is safe to properly assess the damage

‘A toxic punch’: fears Russia’s war is pushing the Black Sea and its #dolphins past tipping point
#environment #war #Ukraine #Russia #BlackSea #envhist #pollution #research #monitoring
@tracymcveigh.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Discount code for newly released and highly anticipated East Asian #envhist books, @mmuscolino.bsky.social‘s ”Remaking the Earth, Exhausting the People” AND “Revolutionary Natures”as well as @connieychiang.bsky.social’s “Nature Unfurled”

There are now two complementary essays on environmental history in Sweden and beyond, by Sverker Sörlin and Jonatan Palmblad. We look forward to the continuation of this series! #envhist

What is an environment, really? I reflect upon this in my latest essay, in which I write about my own path toward #EnvHist and the #EnvHum. This is also a commentary on Sverker Sörlin's great piece in the latest Global Environment. Turns out we have had similar but different environments!