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Sex Is a History: A Review of Performance all the Way Down by Richard O. Prum Book review of Richard O. Prum’s book Performance all the Way Down, published by University of Chicago Press in 2023.

Thrilled to share our most recent book review from contributor & editor Evelyn Ramiel, discussing history, biology, and embodiment through the lens of #envhist #envhum

Fieldwork In-between: Walking and Cutting Grass in Japan’s Post-Mining Landscape Walking through Ashio’s scarred mountains (Japan) and cutting grass along the Watarase River, fieldwork turns out to be less about gathering data and more about learning to sense how toxicity and c…

"Re-relating to the yūsuichi as a wetland happens not despite histories of dispossession and state engineering, but because of and through them," writes Kimberly Fung in our latest FIELD NOTES piece #envhist #envhum

January Community Letter posts this month + a note from our new eic

Sharing some updates over on our monthly community letter #envhist #envhum

Counting What counts: Preserving environmental activism history When the flyers, posters, and participants are lost or forgotten, so too is our understanding about how our shared environmental history has been shaped by activism.

“As an activist, I’d sat in many planning meetings trying to figure out why our campaigns were failing. But as an academic, I’d learnt that success garners much more research than failure," writes @regulliver.bsky.social in today's post. envhistnow.com/2026/01/29/c... #envhist #envhum

Snake Words in Estonia: Nature and Nationalism in Andrus Kivirähk The Northern Environmental History Network is thrilled to welcome Dr Alfie Howard to present on Snake Words in Estonia!

The @northernenvhistory.bsky.social's first seminar of the year is fast approaching!

27/1 2pm GMT

Sign up below!

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The Impact Assessment as Archive: Historical Approaches to Regulatory Documents from Alberta’s Oil Sands Canada’s recent embrace of Indigenous rights looks transformative on paper, but in the Alberta oil sands, a different story unfolds.

Our first piece of 2026 is from Felice Physioc on regulatory documents, history, and impact assessments in our TOOLS FOR CHANGE SERIES #envhist #envhum envhistnow.com/2026/01/15/t...

On Snow Globes Snow globes bear witness to their times and are the perfect curio for the Anthropocene. What would our snow globe of the Anthropocene be made of?

Looking for a seasonal or festive read? Check out Roisin Gilloch Boyle’s latest for EHN, on snow globes and the Anthropocene #envhist #envhum envhistnow.com/2025/12/24/o...

On Snow Globes Snow globes bear witness to their times and are the perfect curio for the Anthropocene. What would our snow globe of the Anthropocene be made of?

Looking for a seasonal or festive read? Check out Roisin Gilloch Boyle’s latest for EHN, on snow globes and the Anthropocene #envhist #envhum envhistnow.com/2025/12/24/o...

Primordial Waters: Being and Doing the Urban Indigenous Guided by an ancestral call to recover the Primordial Water in Cape Town, this essay reflects on how human–nature connections continue to adapt, resist, and reimagine themselves in contemporary Sou…

We're delighted to share a new post today from Lamlela Plaatjie, on land and water use, Indigenous knowledge, and decolonial praxis #envhist #envhum envhistnow.com/2025/12/10/p...

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

Photograph of a tree with snow with text stating the winter deadline to submit to Germinate is December 31st.

Don't miss the chance to submit to Germinate!
The winter deadline for our peer reviewed section is December 31st. Submissions are welcome between 1,200 and 2,000 words that connect the environmental present to its past.

We're excited to read your work!

g-ehr.com/submit/

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

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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...