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American Society for Environmental History @aseh.bsky.social · 12d

Applications sought for next editor(s) of Environmental History. For more information please visit the ASEH website: www.aseh.org

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Environmental History @envirohistory.bsky.social · 15d

Our October 2025 issue is now available! If you are a print subscriber look for it in the mail! #envhist #envhum
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Environmental History @envirohistory.bsky.social · Sep 8

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

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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...

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Chicago Journals @chicagojournals.bsky.social · Aug 7

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

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Environmental History @envirohistory.bsky.social · Aug 1

Thanks to everyone who made the SOLCHA meeting in Rio such a success. Obrigado! Keep the manuscripts coming.

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Environmental History @envirohistory.bsky.social · Jul 31

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

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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...

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Environmental History @envirohistory.bsky.social · Jul 30

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

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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 ...

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Environmental History @envirohistory.bsky.social · Jul 29

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

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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...

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Environmental History @envirohistory.bsky.social · Jun 20

Our July 2025 issue is now available! If you are a print subscriber look for it in the mail! #envhist #envhum

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Environmental History @envirohistory.bsky.social · Jun 3

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

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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...

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Environmental History @envirohistory.bsky.social · May 30

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

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Environmental History @envirohistory.bsky.social · May 29

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

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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...

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Environmental History @envirohistory.bsky.social · May 28

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

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Environmental History @envirohistory.bsky.social · Apr 21

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Environmental History: Leopold-Hidy Award

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Environmental History @envirohistory.bsky.social · Apr 21

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.

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Environmental History @envirohistory.bsky.social · Apr 14

Our April 2025 issue is now available! If you are a print subscriber look for it in the mail! #envhist #envhum
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Environmental History @envirohistory.bsky.social · Apr 3

If you have suggestions for a media review, or would like to be considered as a reviewer for upcoming material, please contact our media review editor at Dr. Scout Blum at [email protected].

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Environmental History @envirohistory.bsky.social · Apr 3

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.

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American Society for Environmental History @aseh.bsky.social · Apr 1

The ASEH has issued a statement on the closure of the EPA Museum. Read it here: aseh.org/resources/Do...

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Environmental History @envirohistory.bsky.social · Mar 27

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

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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...

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Environmental History @envirohistory.bsky.social · Mar 26

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

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“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...

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Environmental History @envirohistory.bsky.social · Mar 25

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

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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...

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Environmental History @envirohistory.bsky.social · Mar 24

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.

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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...

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Environmental History @envirohistory.bsky.social · Feb 14

The January 2025 issue of Technology and Culture features a roundtable titled "Global Histories of Technology in Worlds of Environmental Change."

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Project MUSE - Roundtable: Global Histories of Technology in Worlds of Environmental Change

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Environmental History @envirohistory.bsky.social · Feb 13

Our January 2025 issue is now available! If you are a print subscriber look for it in the mail!

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