Environmental History Now

Queering Sanctuary and Un/Becoming with Wolf/Dogs If there is anything to be salvaged from the fraught concept of “wildness,” it is in the wily tenacity and audacious hopefulness of these queer taxonomic renegades.

We're thrilled to share a breathtaking new essay today from @critical-lycan.bsky.social on multispecies sanctuary, queerness, and wolfdogs #envhist #envhum

Today we're spotlighting friend of EHN, @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social, who has helped keep us sustainable during our fundraising drive this year #envhist #envhum

Another round of gratitude today for Dr. Robin Hartanto Honggare for supporting EHN and keeping us sustainable! Chip in at ko-fi.com/envhistnow #envhist #envhum

This Monday, we want to thank Dr. Tina Adcock for her ongoing support of EHN! Join Dr. Adcock and many others in keeping us going ko-fi.com/envhistnow #envhist #envhum

Pre-Flight Safety Briefing: Researching the Environment in the U.S. without Being Detained at the Border It is a turbulent time to be an international scholar in the United States: So before you embark on your next trip to the U.S., let’s make sure you are ready for take-off.

Latest piece out today from Adrienne Brown; a safety briefing for research in #envhist #envhum envhistnow.com/2025/10/07/p...

Huge thanks to @carolineabbott.bsky.social for her contribution to keeping EHN sustainable! Donate at ko-fi.com/envhistnow for a chance to be featured and keep our independent platform going! #envhist #envhum

Can you keep us sustainable? EHN is volunteer-run, but we need to cover our costs for hosting the website. If you value what we do, chip in $6 or whatever you can below ko-fi.com/envhistnow

Thank you for writing this fantastic essay for EHN!

Check out my new piece for Environmental History Now!

Pre-Flight Safety Briefing: Researching the Environment in the U.S. without Being Detained at the Border It is a turbulent time to be an international scholar in the United States: So before you embark on your next trip to the U.S., let’s make sure you are ready for take-off.

Latest piece out today from Adrienne Brown; a safety briefing for research in #envhist #envhum envhistnow.com/2025/10/07/p...

Big thanks today to Dr. Andrew Watson for his generosity in supporting EHN! Head over to our Ko-Fi page (link in bio) to support us in our fundraising drive!

#envhist #envhum

Today's thanks go to @kelsass.bsky.social
for his generosity in supporting EHN. Thanks for all you do, Dr. Elsass!
If you want to join in keeping EHN sustainable, head over to ko-fi.com/envhistnow #envhist #envhum

Our fundraising drive continues this week with a round of thank-yous to folks helping to keep the lights on at EHN! First up, huge gratitude to Dr. Nancy Jacobs for her support. Donate for a chance to be spotlighted on our page! ko-fi.com/envhistnow

EHN’s 7th anniversary retrospective A Note from the Editors: To wrap up this year’s anniversary week, the executive editorial team decided to create a retrospective featuring some of our favorite essays, two from this past year and t…

A little retrospective of the past year to close out Anniversary Week: envhistnow.com/2025/09/19/e... #envhist #envhum

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No One Is A Virus: On American Ecofascism In mid-March of this year, a storytelling strain tore through the internet–what a New York Times reporter dubbed the “Coronavirus Nature Genre.”

And this one by April Anson envhistnow.com/2020/10/21/n...

Problems of Place: Spatial Promiscuity and the Search for Home In the last couple of years, I have had a recurring dream. Perhaps, not quite a recurring dream, since the events in the dreamscape always differed.

This one by Aadita Chaudhury envhistnow.com/2018/12/28/p...

Fluctuating and Fragmented: The History of Regulating the Tidal Salt Marsh near Wood Island in East Boston, Massachusetts East Boston has the largest amount of made land in the City of Boston. It was originally comprised of five islands connected by acres of fluctuating tidal marshes and flats. The history of the Grea…

This one by Genna Kane envhistnow.com/2024/10/28/f...

The case for weighing voles on your vacation Visualize your dream vacation.  Maybe you’re stretched out on a towel, listening to waves swell and crash on a sandy shore. Or taking the first bite of a still-warm, flaky croissant on a hotel…

Featuring this post from Nina Foster envhistnow.com/2024/12/17/t...

EHN’s 7th anniversary retrospective A Note from the Editors: To wrap up this year’s anniversary week, the executive editorial team decided to create a retrospective featuring some of our favorite essays, two from this past year and t…

A little retrospective of the past year to close out Anniversary Week: envhistnow.com/2025/09/19/e... #envhist #envhum

Scaling the Ivory Tower: The Neoliberalization of Academia Wondering about the unexpected consequences of the neoliberal turn of universities, we reflect on how to challenge the neoliberal model of academia in a way that keeps the academic door open to peo…

Today on EHN for Anniversary Week, we're thrilled to share work by @valeriazambianchi.bsky.social and Ana Caetano Buchadas, "Scaling the Ivory Tower: The Neoliberalization of Academia" envhistnow.com/2025/09/18/s... #envhist #envhum We love these coauthored collaborations on our site!

Living with Smoke: A Comic for the Fire Season This essay was originally published in June 2024 in NiCHE: Network in Canadian History & Environment. Each year, British Columbia’s (BC) wildfire seasons force us to reckon with two stories abo…

Today to celebrate anniversary week, we're thrilled to share a crosspost with our friends at @nichecanada.bsky.social: @micaamy.bsky.social's incredible comic for fire season #envhist #envhum
envhistnow.com/2025/09/17/l...

Did you miss our new book review from yesterday? "Opening each chapter with personal narratives and imagery grounds the volume in the present and reminds readers that ways of knowing are actively unfolding as historical layers meet contemporary Indigenous perspectives.” @katieionecraney.bsky.social

Can you keep us sustainable? EHN is volunteer-run, but we need to cover our costs for hosting the website. If you value what we do, chip in $6 or whatever you can below ko-fi.com/envhistnow

Thank you, Mica, for the important work you do and for sharing this fantastic piece with EHN!!

Delighted that this work continues to find new audiences, and (although purely coincidental) feels very appropriate coming out on the last day of my last fire season deployment. Thank you for hosting me, and for the work of your wonderful editorial team @envhistnow.bsky.social !

Living with Smoke: A Comic for the Fire Season This essay was originally published in June 2024 in NiCHE: Network in Canadian History & Environment. Each year, British Columbia’s (BC) wildfire seasons force us to reckon with two stories abo…

Today to celebrate anniversary week, we're thrilled to share a crosspost with our friends at @nichecanada.bsky.social: @micaamy.bsky.social's incredible comic for fire season #envhist #envhum
envhistnow.com/2025/09/17/l...

Call for Nominations: 2026 NiCHE Book Prize The Network in Canadian History and Environment is soliciting nominations for its 2026 NiCHE Prize for Best Book. This prize is awarded every other year for meritorious publications that make importan...

Call for Nominations: 2026 NiCHE Book Prize

Books published in 2024 and 2025 are eligible!

Submit your nominations by December 31st!

niche-canada.org/2025/09/16/c...

#envhist #cdnhist

Collective Memory and Survivance Pratt, Kenneth L., and Scott S. Heyes, eds. Memory and Landscape: Indigenous Responses to a Changing North. Athabasca, Alberta: Athabasca University Press, 2022.

We're delighted to feature our new book review series today, with @katieionecraney.bsky.social review of Memory and Landscape: Indigenous Responses to a Changing North, ed. Kenneth L. Pratt and Scott A. Heyes envhistnow.com/2025/09/16/c... #envhist #envhum

Incredible essay! Many thanks to Rae Ferner-Rose!