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Mark Stoll
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Environmental historian, author of Profit: An Environmental History (2023) and Inherit the Holy Mountain: Religion and the Rise of American Environmentalism (2015). https://www.markstoll.net/ Professor at @texastechuniv.bsky.social
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Joby Aviation has wrapped up an impressive year, concluding its last international flight demonstration of 2025 at Japan's iconic Fuji Speedway.

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#JobyAviation #airtaxis #Japan #FujiSpeedway #avgeek #Aviation #aviationdaily #Aviationnews
December 16, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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Check out Michael Brunson's review of Joe Weber & Selima Sultana's "The Parks Belong to the People: The Geography of the National Park System," published in 2024 by @ugapress.bsky.social; review now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhist #envhum #nationalparks
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January 21, 2026 at 4:15 PM
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Upcoming deadline (1/31): submit your proposals for 2026 New England Quarterly symposium on Environmental Histories of New England, 1600-2025. #envhist #newengland #cfp
NEQ Events and Calls for Papers
Environmental Histories of New England, 1600-2025 Friday, September 18, 2026 Massachusetts Historical Society, 1154 Boylston Street, Boston, MA New England is a region defined by its landscape, its…
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January 22, 2026 at 11:04 PM
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Check out Buckley T. Foster's review of Steve Kemp's "An Exaltation of Parks: John D. Rockefeller Jr.'s Crusade to Save
America's Wonderlands," published in 2025 by @uofupress.bsky.social; review now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhist #envhum #nationalparks
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January 23, 2026 at 6:16 AM
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I am a climate scientist and this is correct.

As the planet warms, storms like the one today are getting stronger… and as the Arctic is warming twice as fast as the mid latitudes, it increases the risk of the “freezer door” swinging open.

Technical explanation here: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
January 24, 2026 at 6:38 PM
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Sheldon Whitehouse takes on ‘climate hushers’ in the Democratic Party
The Rhode Island Democrat isn’t happy with colleagues moving away from talking about climate change.
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January 24, 2026 at 8:36 PM
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#ornithology
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Trends in nonbreeding shorebirds along the Pacific Americas Flyway
Abstract. Population trends for shorebirds that spend the nonbreeding period of their annual cycle along the Pacific Americas Flyway are largely unknown. H
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January 24, 2026 at 8:44 PM
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#ornithology
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Abundance and distribution of birds from comprehensive surveys of the Canadian Arctic, 1994–2018
Abstract. Abundance and distribution are critical metrics of population status and foundational information for conservation. However, even these basic met
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January 24, 2026 at 8:47 PM
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Another item in #Extinction News: Rising threats to the #Pacific #flyway, a major migration route. #Shorebird numbers are plummeting.
#environment @sfgate.com
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Once-common Bay Area birds are vanishing at dramatic rates
"These are quite dramatic changes we're seeing over pretty concerning ranges."
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January 24, 2026 at 8:52 PM
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#ClimateChange is proving to be a challenge to the survival of the #JoshuaTree of #California, as well as the #ecosystem to which it is key.
#environment #ecology @sfgate.com
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Joshua trees are flowering in the Calif. desert. That’s bad news.
Joshua trees rely on a single moth species to reproduce.
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January 24, 2026 at 4:12 PM
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#ClimateChange is proving to be a challenge to the survival of the #JoshuaTree of #California, as well as the #ecosystem to which it is key.
#environment #ecology @sfgate.com
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Joshua trees are flowering in the Calif. desert. That’s bad news.
Joshua trees rely on a single moth species to reproduce.
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January 24, 2026 at 4:12 PM
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Unbelievable! Why does the #NPS continue to allow #Aramark to be concessionaire in #Yosemite. NPS already kicked them out of #CraterLake. Then Aramark let historic #Wawona Hotel deteriorate until it was condemned. They clearly are trying to squeeze every dime they can.
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Aramark tells Yosemite workers it's axing most of their housing rights
"It's basically like a big f—k you."
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January 24, 2026 at 4:16 AM
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Good news on the #endangered #species front. Reintroduction of the Cascadian #frog in the #Sierra.
#environment #envhist @sfgate.com
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The fight to bring a lost species back to a California national park
"We need to be recovering them to places where they’ve been lost."
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January 22, 2026 at 8:27 PM
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#envhist #Job
hsozkultservice.bsky.social Hsozkult Service @hsozkultservice.bsky.social · 6d
Job: 1 Akad. Rät:in / Wiss. Mitarb. (w/m/d) "Umweltgeschichte" (Univ. Freiburg)

https://www.hsozkult.de/job/id/job-159930

Freiburg, 01.04.2026-01.04.2029, Historisches Seminar Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Bewerbungsschluss: 02.02.2026 Vollzeitstelle Akad. Mitarb. oder Akad. Rat/Rätin …
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January 18, 2026 at 8:41 PM
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Across a century and a half, colonial, private and government salt farming at Sambhar has transformed the ecology of India's Sambhar Lake, affecting both wildlife and livelihoods. Read Deborah Sutton's new Arcadia article to learn more!
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Between Salt and Water: The Environmental Crisis at Sambhar Lake, Rajasthan, India
Across a century and a half, colonial, private and government salt farming at Sambhar has transformed the ecology of the lake and caused a slow cataclysm of pollution, affecting wildlife and livelihoo...
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January 19, 2026 at 12:49 PM
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Our term has started and we've got another round of great Environmental History Research Seminars scheduled in Dublin. Come and join us!

Thanks to @tlrhub.bsky.social for supporting and hosting the series!
#envhist @historytcd.bsky.social

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The seminar programme of the Trinity Centre for Environmental Humanities for Hilary Term 2025/06
January 19, 2026 at 1:15 PM
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There's a new post on our blog, by Eliot Fackler on 'Lake Erie’s Toxic Algae and the Dismal History of the Black Swamp'; originally published in 'Environment and History' as a Snapshot article. Free to read here: whitehorsepress.blog/2026/01/19/b... @eandhwhp.bsky.social #envhist #algae #LakeErie
Lake Erie’s Toxic Algae and the Dismal History of the Black Swamp
In this blog, first published as a ‘Snapshot’ in Environment and History (November 2025) Eliot Fackler shows how the histories of western Lake Erie and the Black Swamp provide lessons f…
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January 19, 2026 at 4:18 PM
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If you are a grad student or early career scholar, consider applying for the @histocean.bsky.social 2026 Jacqueline Carpine-Lancre Early Career Scholars Prize in Ocean History. Details here: oceansciencehistory.com/2026/01/06/c... #oceanhist #envhist
CFP Announcement: 2026 Jacqueline Carpine-Lancre Early Career Scholars Prize in Ocean History
The DHST Commission on the History of Oceanography (ICHO) announces the annual Jacqueline Carpine-Lancre Early Career Scholars Prize for outstanding papers addressing some aspect of ocean history, …
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January 19, 2026 at 8:21 PM
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Just arrived in the mail: 'Science, Religion, and the Human Future' (OUP 2026) - from our @eclasproject.bsky.social, on the history of conflict narratives in Science and Religion, and their present ramifications.

Now available as e-book & in print: global.oup.com/academic/pro... 1/2
January 20, 2026 at 12:48 PM
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I enjoyed speaking with Graihagh Jackson of the BBC about the adaptations to #ClimateChange that may be embedded within Elizabethan architecture. History, I maintain, is an underused tool for helping us understand the present and imagine possible futures. #EnvHist www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...
'The past is an underused tool': An Elizabethan mansion's secrets for staying warm
In a deadly cold period known as the Little Ice Age, clever Elizabethan designs kept a magnificent stately home unusually warm – with lessons for how we can heat our own homes better.
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January 20, 2026 at 2:12 PM
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Out today: a new H-Environment Roundtable Review on Lianne C. Leddy's *Serpent River Resurgence: Confronting Uranium Mining at Elliot Lake,* with commentaries by Jessica Urwin, Joseph Masco, Robynne Mellor, and Nick Estes. Please circulate! #envhist #envhum networks.h-net.org/sites/defaul...
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January 20, 2026 at 7:44 PM
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The West Coast #monarch #butterfly count is a near-record lows for another year. Meanwhile, the Administration is dragging its heels on invoking Endangered Species protection.
#environment @sfgate.com
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'It's really sad': Extinction risk is high for iconic Calif. butterfly
The Endangered Species Act is no help yet.
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January 21, 2026 at 3:46 AM
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Interesting new research on #eagles and #humans. They face threats of local #extinction from everything from weekend hikers to the rise of #renewable #energy.
#environment @theguardian.com
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‘We thought they would ignore us’: how humans are changing the way raptors behave
Experts call for tighter regulation as GPS tracking reveals how people’s behaviour affects the lives of some of the world’s largest birds
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January 19, 2026 at 3:42 PM
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Trump administration sues California over law keeping oil wells from homes, schools - Los Angeles Times www.latimes.com/environment/...
Trump administration sues California over law keeping oil wells from homes, schools
Senate Bill 1137 establishes a 3,200-foot minimum distance between new oil wells and homes, schools, hospitals, parks and other places where people live, work and gather.
www.latimes.com
January 17, 2026 at 9:33 PM
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This is just what we need. Michigan has three native elm species (Ulmus americana, rubra, and thomasii) and all are already suffering to varying degrees from the introduced Dutch elm disease. This sawfly will probably only make their plight worse. 🌍

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An all-female wasp is rapidly spreading across North America’s elms
The elm zigzag sawfly has spread to 15 states in five years. Now it's attacking the tree that cities planted to replace Dutch elm disease victims.
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January 16, 2026 at 3:11 PM