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Daniella M. @farsouthhistory.bsky.social · 33m

Check out Magdalena Gil's review of María de los Ángeles Picone's "Landscaping Patagonia: Spatial History and Nation-Making in Chile and Argentina," published in 2025 by @uncpress.bsky.social #envhist #envhum #landscape
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Women in the Arctic and Antarctic @warcticantarctic.bsky.social · 5d

The Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center Archival Program call for the Polar Archives Research Award - Oct 31, 2025 deadline library.osu.edu/polararchive... @arcticcentreumu.bsky.social @sduarctic.bsky.social @nichecanada.bsky.social @eupolarcluster.bsky.social @scottpolar.bsky.social @bas.ac.uk

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Henry Snow @henrysnow.bsky.social · 21h

My colleague Jack Bouchard's book Terra Nova is out today! It's about early 16th-century mariners and the seasonal fishery around present-day Newfoundland, and its place within the Atlantic World. I cannot wait to read it

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Terra Nova

A bottom-up story of the fishworkers, whalers, First Nations, merchantwomen, oceans, and animals who together made a new colonial world in the early Atlantic...

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Daniella M. @farsouthhistory.bsky.social · 20d

There is still time to review a book this Fall semester! Check out some of the awesome new titles that I have available for review. Pass it on! #envhist #envhum #energy #aghist #ecocrit #conservation #sustatinability #envtech #water #naturewriting
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Books Available to review for H-Environment

Books Available for Review for H-Environment Below are the books currently available for review for H-Environment. Interested in reviewing one? Please email me at [email protected] for DM me at @farso...

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J.D. Connor @jdconnor.bsky.social · 20h

We're hiring. It's a real needle-in-a-haystack search for an experienced teacher who can help reimagine our flagship (i.e., huge) intro course for a new era. 3/3 load. Convenient to Hollywood and Holbox.

usccareers.usc.edu/job/los-ange...

Open-rank Assistant, Associate Professor of Cinema and Media Studies at USC

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Jeff Manuel @jeffmanuel.bsky.social · 21h

It's the official publication day for ETHANOL: A HEMISPHERIC HISTORY FOR THE FUTURE OF BIOFUELS. Want to know why the US turns 40 percent of the corn crop into fuel? How the US and Brazil became the world's two largest ethanol producers? Tom Rogers and I have answers.
www.oupress.com/978080619601...

Ethanol - University of Oklahoma Press

Though ethanol, a liquid fuel made from agricultural byproducts, has generated controversy in recent years—good or bad for the environment? a big-ag boon o...

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Dr. Penelope K Hardy @pkhardy.bsky.social · 1d

🌊🌊🌊 New on H-Oceans 🌊🌊🌊

Check out Katherine McNally (@yale.edu)’s review of André Tavares (University of Porto)’s book _Architecture Follows Fish: An Amphibious History of the North Atlantic_, pub 2022 @mitpress.bsky.social

#oceans‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬
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Daniella M. @farsouthhistory.bsky.social · 1d

Check out Vanessa Koh's review of Xiangli Ding's "Hydropower Nation: Dams, Energy, and Political Changes in Twentieth-Century China," published in 2024 by @universitypress.cambridge.org; review now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhist #envhum #water #envtech
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David Sepkoski @hallucigenia.bsky.social · 3d

Very happy to announce that the Handbook of the Historiography of Earth and Environmental Sciences I coedited with Elena Aronova and Marco Tamborini is now available, for free (open access) via this link:
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Handbook of the Historiography of the Earth and Environmental Sciences

This open access handbook assesses the historiography and the future of major themes and approaches within the history of the earth sciences.

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Daniella M. @farsouthhistory.bsky.social · 1d

Without a doubt, if they are a good student, my colleague Barbara Hahn's book is terrific.
www.cambridge.org/core/books/t...

Technology in the Industrial Revolution

Cambridge Core - Economic History - Technology in the Industrial Revolution

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Daniella M. @farsouthhistory.bsky.social · 2d

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Heroic Failure and the British

From the Charge of the Light Brigade to Scott of the Antarctic and beyond, it seems as if glorious disaster and valiant defeat have been essential aspects of...

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Daniella M. @farsouthhistory.bsky.social · 2d

She has published some great work the heroic age; also see
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The Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration, 1890 to the Present (Chapter 10) - The Cambridge History of the Polar Regions

The Cambridge History of the Polar Regions - May 2023

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Daniella M. @farsouthhistory.bsky.social · 2d

Check out Danielle Chu's review of Rowan Lubbock's "Cultivating Socialism: Venezuela, Alba, and the Politics of Food
Sovereignty," published in 2024 by @ugapress.bsky.social; review now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhist #envhum #foodhist #aghist
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Matthew Willis (Naval Air History) @navalairhistory.com · 2d

Shackleton biographer Michael Smith says he 'doubts this will change our view of Shackleton... that he was a man who took chances and made big calls under pressure.' It probably should though. If Franklin or Scott had been as negligent about their ships, I don't think it would be lightly dismissed

Daniella M. @farsouthhistory.bsky.social · 2d

Wreck of Shackleton’s Endurance Tied to Culprit Other Than Ice www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/s...

Wreck of Shackleton’s Endurance Tied to Culprit Other Than Ice

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Daniella M. @farsouthhistory.bsky.social · 2d

I think serious scholars of Antarctic history have been critical of Shackleton's widespread adulation for years. For us, this is just like one more thing. Check out Stephanie Barczewski's book on the history of Scott/Shackleton perceptions
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/antarctic...

Antarctic Destinies

This book covers the two most famous expeditions of the heroic age of Antarctic exploration, Robert Falcon Scott's Terra Nova expedition of 1910-12 and Ernest S…

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Daniella M. @farsouthhistory.bsky.social · 2d

Wreck of Shackleton’s Endurance Tied to Culprit Other Than Ice www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/s...

Wreck of Shackleton’s Endurance Tied to Culprit Other Than Ice

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Dr Matt Lodder @mattlodder.com · 2d

ANYONE WHO HAS EVER PUBLISHED A BOOK! You could be owed money from the Anthropic Class Action (c $3k per book) if its in the database. None of mine are, but some people I know are!

www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com

Homepage | ANT

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Unofficial BBCNews (World) Bot @bbcnews-world-rss.bsky.social · 3d

Before and after images show glaciers vanishing before our eyes

They are melting like never seen before, changing landscapes around the world beyond recognition.

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Quanta Magazine @quantamagazine.bsky.social · 7d

Day after day, the desire to understand the planet compels people all over the world to don their snowsuits, wet suits and business suits in the service of climate science. Explore their efforts in Quanta’s photo gallery:

Photos Capture the Extreme, Beautiful Work of Climate Science | Quanta Magazine

Building an accurate model of Earth’s climate requires a lot of data. Photography reveals the extreme efforts scientists have undertaken to measure gases, glaciers, clouds and more.

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J. Connell Stryker @jconnellstryker.bsky.social · 4d

New source! New source! Thank you public historians for telling me about a new (to me) source!

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Lonely Diarist of the High Seas - JSTOR Daily

As ship stewardess, Ella Sheldon tended to upper-crust women onboard and battled a range of workplace demons. Her journals tell her story.

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Patrick McCray @patrickmccray.bsky.social · 4d

4 October 1957...the USSR launches Sputnik I.

Teams of citizen scientists around the planet - all part of the Smithsonian's Operation Moonwatch - turn out and successfully spot and track it.

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Daniella M. @farsouthhistory.bsky.social · 5d

Check out William C. Barnett's review of Tim Mulherin's "This Magnetic North: Candid Conversations on a Changing
Northern Michigan" published in 2025 by Michigan State University Press; review now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhist #envhum #tourism
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Daniella M. @farsouthhistory.bsky.social · 6d

Check out Sharon Kingsland's review of Elizabeth Lawson's "Moss and Lichen," published in 2024 by @reaktionbooks.bsky.social @uchicagopress.bsky.social; review now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhist #envhum #histsci #planthist
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 6d

The world has lost its most powerful advocate for nature and hope. Yet many remain who will continue her legacy and I know she will continue to inspire generations more.

A screenshot of a post by the Jane Goodall Institute on LinkedIn stating that they learned that Dr. Goodall passed away due to natural causes in California while on her speaking to her current speaking tour there.

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Kai Bosworth @kaibosworth.bsky.social · 6d

I reviewed the new John Hultgren book - definitely of interest to geographers and political ecologists of all stripes! the book made me consider questions like how to understand anti-environmentalism as a global project, and whether it really is jobs vs the environment

Daniella M. @farsouthhistory.bsky.social · 19d

Check out @kaibosworth.bsky.social's review of John Hultgren's "The Smoke and the Spoils: Anti-Environmentalism and Class Struggle in the United States," published in 2025 by @mitpress.bsky.social; review now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhist #envhum
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