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Environmental History Now @envhistnow.bsky.social · 11h

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

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.

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Environmental History Now @envhistnow.bsky.social · 8d

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!

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Environmental History Now @envhistnow.bsky.social · 14d

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

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Environmental History Now @envhistnow.bsky.social · 16d

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

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Environmental History Now @envhistnow.bsky.social · 19d

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

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…

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Environmental History Now @envhistnow.bsky.social · 19d

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Environmental History Now @envhistnow.bsky.social · 19d

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

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.”

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Environmental History Now @envhistnow.bsky.social · 19d

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

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.

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Environmental History Now @envhistnow.bsky.social · 19d

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

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…

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Environmental History Now @envhistnow.bsky.social · 19d

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

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…

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Environmental History Now @envhistnow.bsky.social · 19d

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

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…

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Environmental History Now @envhistnow.bsky.social · 20d

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!

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…

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Environmental History Now @envhistnow.bsky.social · 21d

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
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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…

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Environmental History Now @envhistnow.bsky.social · 21d

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

Environmental History Now @envhistnow.bsky.social · 22d

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

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.

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Environmental History Now @envhistnow.bsky.social · 21d

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

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Environmental History Now @envhistnow.bsky.social · 21d

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

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Mica Jorgenson @micaamy.bsky.social · 21d

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 !

Environmental History Now @envhistnow.bsky.social · 21d

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...

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…

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Environmental History Now @envhistnow.bsky.social · 21d

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...

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…

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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 21d

Call for Nominations: 2026 NiCHE Book Prize

Books published in 2024 and 2025 are eligible!

Submit your nominations by December 31st!

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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...

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Environmental History Now @envhistnow.bsky.social · 22d

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

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.

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Environmental History Now @envhistnow.bsky.social · 22d

Incredible essay! Many thanks to Rae Ferner-Rose!

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Environmental History Now @envhistnow.bsky.social · 22d

EHN is 100% volunteer run, by graduate students and early career scholars who value and prioritize the voices of women, trans, and nonbinary scholars in envhist and envhum. Please support our editors and reviewers, and help cover the costs of EHN's online platform ☕:
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Environmental History Now @envhistnow.bsky.social · 22d

Did you miss the first essay release yesterday for EHN's 7th Anniversary Week? Here is Rae Ferner-Rose's "Strange Assemblages," on zoos and wildlife parks in the context of anthropogenic climate change and conservation discourses. Check it out! 🐻‍❄️ #envhist #envhum

Environmental History Now @envhistnow.bsky.social · 23d

“Can these animals ever be assimilated into the UK landscape, and visually, how might that manifest?” writes Rae Ferner-Rose envhistnow.com/2025/09/15/s... #envhist #envhum

Strange Assemblages: The Environmental Uncanny and the British Wildlife Park

The zoo, a space that once spoke to human domination over nature, now proves a morally loaded stage on which the biodiversity crisis slips out of our hands.

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UoBris Centre for Environmental Humanities @uobrisceh.bsky.social · 22d

A great article by our current Environmental Humanities MA student Rae Ferner-Rose 🤩

Environmental History Now @envhistnow.bsky.social · 23d

“Can these animals ever be assimilated into the UK landscape, and visually, how might that manifest?” writes Rae Ferner-Rose envhistnow.com/2025/09/15/s... #envhist #envhum

Strange Assemblages: The Environmental Uncanny and the British Wildlife Park

The zoo, a space that once spoke to human domination over nature, now proves a morally loaded stage on which the biodiversity crisis slips out of our hands.

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Environmental History Now @envhistnow.bsky.social · 23d

“Can these animals ever be assimilated into the UK landscape, and visually, how might that manifest?” writes Rae Ferner-Rose envhistnow.com/2025/09/15/s... #envhist #envhum

Strange Assemblages: The Environmental Uncanny and the British Wildlife Park

The zoo, a space that once spoke to human domination over nature, now proves a morally loaded stage on which the biodiversity crisis slips out of our hands.

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