Environmental History
@envirohistory.bsky.social
Environmental History is an international journal dedicated to exploring the history of human interaction with the natural world.
http://environmentalhistory.net/
http://environmentalhistory.net/
Reposted by Environmental History
Applications sought for next editor(s) of Environmental History. For more information please visit the ASEH website: www.aseh.org
September 26, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Applications sought for next editor(s) of Environmental History. For more information please visit the ASEH website: www.aseh.org
Our October 2025 issue is now available! If you are a print subscriber look for it in the mail! #envhist #envhum
@chicagojournals.bsky.social
www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/eh/current
@chicagojournals.bsky.social
www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/eh/current
University of Chicago Press Journals: Cookie absent
www.journals.uchicago.edu
September 23, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Our October 2025 issue is now available! If you are a print subscriber look for it in the mail! #envhist #envhum
@chicagojournals.bsky.social
www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/eh/current
@chicagojournals.bsky.social
www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/eh/current
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
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
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...
www.journals.uchicago.edu
September 8, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
Reposted by Environmental History
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
August 7, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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
Thanks to everyone who made the SOLCHA meeting in Rio such a success. Obrigado! Keep the manuscripts coming.
August 1, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Thanks to everyone who made the SOLCHA meeting in Rio such a success. Obrigado! Keep the manuscripts coming.
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
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
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...
www.journals.uchicago.edu
July 31, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
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
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
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 ...
www.journals.uchicago.edu
July 30, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
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
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
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...
www.journals.uchicago.edu
July 29, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
Our July 2025 issue is now available! If you are a print subscriber look for it in the mail! #envhist #envhum
www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/eh/current
www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/eh/current
Environmental History | Vol 30, No 3
www.journals.uchicago.edu
June 20, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Our July 2025 issue is now available! If you are a print subscriber look for it in the mail! #envhist #envhum
www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/eh/current
www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/eh/current
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
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
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...
www.journals.uchicago.edu
June 3, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
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
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
University of Chicago Press Journals: Cookie absent
www.journals.uchicago.edu
May 30, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
Ahead of new print alert! You can now read
@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
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
@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
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
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...
www.journals.uchicago.edu
May 29, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Ahead of new print alert! You can now read
@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
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
@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
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
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
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
University of Chicago Press Journals: Cookie absent
www.journals.uchicago.edu
May 28, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
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.
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
University of Chicago Press Journals: Cookie absent
www.journals.uchicago.edu
April 21, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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.
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
Our April 2025 issue is now available! If you are a print subscriber look for it in the mail! #envhist #envhum
@chicagojournals.bsky.social
www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/eh/current
@chicagojournals.bsky.social
www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/eh/current
Environmental History | Vol 30, No 2
www.journals.uchicago.edu
April 14, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Our April 2025 issue is now available! If you are a print subscriber look for it in the mail! #envhist #envhum
@chicagojournals.bsky.social
www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/eh/current
@chicagojournals.bsky.social
www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/eh/current
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.
April 3, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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.
Reposted by Environmental History
The ASEH has issued a statement on the closure of the EPA Museum. Read it here: aseh.org/resources/Do...
aseh.org
April 1, 2025 at 6:45 PM
The ASEH has issued a statement on the closure of the EPA Museum. Read it here: aseh.org/resources/Do...
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
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
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...
www.journals.uchicago.edu
March 27, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
Ahead of new print alert! You can now read Atte Arffman's open access article "'And Yet It Makes Environmental Sense': Beachfront Management and Hurricane Hugo in South Carolina" from the April 2025 issue. #envhist #envhum #hurricane
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
“And Yet It Makes Environmental Sense”: Beachfront Management and Hurricane Hugo in South Carolina | Environmental History
Abstract In the late 1980s, South Carolina tried to curb its accelerating erosion problems with the Beachfront Management Act (BMA), but economic interests ultimately overrode environmentalist concern...
www.journals.uchicago.edu
March 26, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Ahead of new print alert! You can now read Atte Arffman's open access article "'And Yet It Makes Environmental Sense': Beachfront Management and Hurricane Hugo in South Carolina" from the April 2025 issue. #envhist #envhum #hurricane
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
Ahead of new print alert! You can now read @julianordblad.bsky.social's "The Nature of Planetary Habitability: A Conceptual History of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services" from the April 2025 issue. #envhist #envhum #biodiversity
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
The Nature of Planetary Habitability: A Conceptual History of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services | Environmental History
Abstract This essay traces the conceptual history of biodiversity and ecosystem services from the late 1970s to the early 2000s. In contrast to recent historical studies that have interpreted biodiver...
www.journals.uchicago.edu
March 25, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Ahead of new print alert! You can now read @julianordblad.bsky.social's "The Nature of Planetary Habitability: A Conceptual History of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services" from the April 2025 issue. #envhist #envhum #biodiversity
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
You can now read Rebecca Woods' (@professorbopeep.bsky.social) "Entangled Extinction: Endangered Elephants and Extinct Mammoth Ivory in the Nineteenth and Twenty-First Centuries" from the April 2025 issue.
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
Entangled Extinction: Endangered Elephants and Extinct Mammoth Ivory in the Nineteenth and Twenty-First Centuries | Environmental History
This article uses two moments from the history of ivory to examine the shared histories of mammoths and elephants. The first came in the late nineteenth century, when mammoth ivory was proposed as a s...
www.journals.uchicago.edu
March 24, 2025 at 8:58 PM
You can now read Rebecca Woods' (@professorbopeep.bsky.social) "Entangled Extinction: Endangered Elephants and Extinct Mammoth Ivory in the Nineteenth and Twenty-First Centuries" from the April 2025 issue.
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
The January 2025 issue of Technology and Culture features a roundtable titled "Global Histories of Technology in Worlds of Environmental Change."
muse.jhu.edu/article/951049
muse.jhu.edu/article/951049
Project MUSE - Roundtable: Global Histories of Technology in Worlds of Environmental Change
muse.jhu.edu
February 14, 2025 at 6:18 PM
The January 2025 issue of Technology and Culture features a roundtable titled "Global Histories of Technology in Worlds of Environmental Change."
muse.jhu.edu/article/951049
muse.jhu.edu/article/951049
Our January 2025 issue is now available! If you are a print subscriber look for it in the mail!
www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/eh/current
www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/eh/current
Environmental History | Vol 30, No 1
www.journals.uchicago.edu
February 13, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Our January 2025 issue is now available! If you are a print subscriber look for it in the mail!
www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/eh/current
www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/eh/current