New in Arcadia: new research on old data reveals how Gloucester, Massachusetts, emerged as one of the most significant fishing ports of the United States in the late 1800s. Read the article by Rafael Sousa Santos to learn more! #EnvHist #envhum

We've published two new articles Ahead of Print in 'Global Environment', both #openaccess here: liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/toc/whpge/0/0 @globalenvironment.bsky.social #envhist

🔔 JOB OPENING: 1 postdoctoral researcher (f/m/x) to join the research professorship 'Public Social Sciences and Humanities: Key Societal Debates' (Prof. Sule Emmanuel Egya) #envhum #PublicHumanities #IndigenousStudies 📆 15 June 2026 👉 www.uni-due.de/karriere/ste...

Here's new Call For Papers from 'Worldwide Waste' – an Open Access peer-reviewed journal, presenting innovative humanities, arts and social science research on waste from around the world. We're now accepting a range of new articles types: www.whp-journals.co.uk/WW/CallsForP... #envhum #waste

We've published a new AoP article in 'Plant Perspectives', by Shelley Kolstad, 'Between "The Outlier" and "The Dead": Ethnographic and Phenomenological Encounters with a Mangrove Community'; #openaccess here: www.doi.org/10.3197/WHPP. #plantstudies #mangroves #envhum @plantperspectives.bsky.social

Tar Creek, in NE Oklahoma. The EPA's oldest 'Superfund' clean-up site, remediation ongoing. Annual conference starts today in Miami, OK. #envhist #chatpiles #sinkholes #slagheaps #runoff #RobidouxAquifer #GrandLakeOK #DrinkingWater #waterpolitics #ghosttowns www.sierraclub.org/sierra/2021-...

Our colleagues at the Rachel Carson Center have contributed with a new deliverable for our project: The Cultural Roots of Ecological Justice. Read it to learn about the history ecological justice, its perils, and how to reconcile it with social justice. ec.europa.eu/research/par... #envhum #envhist

Post by @lottaleiwo.bsky.social, Tamara Caulkins & me on the thinking behind our call for contributions to a Sourcebook for Histories of Weather and Weathering - the workshop(s) that inspired it and our own perspectives. The deadline is 4 September #histSTM #envhist meteohistory.org/announcements/

Check out Sarah Kimmet's review of Sudesh Mishra & Caitlin Vandertop's "Commodities and Literature," published in 2025 by @universitypress.cambridge.org; review now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhist #envhum #ecocrit #aghist www.h-net.org/reviews/show...

Amey Zhang of the Rachel Carson Center will present in Madrid, Spain, this Wednesday on "Becoming Environment: Childhood, Learning, and Nature Amidst Cultural Change." #envhum

The AHA recently announced the Community Action and Resource Exchange (CARE) network, which brings historians together to discuss shared professional issues and concerns, exchange ideas, and collaborate on strategies and solutions that strengthen the discipline. Get involved today.

Lovely essay by @palmblad.bsky.social developing the sense of environing - a verb - that does things to us (all organisms) rather than just something out there (to be managed), or an adjective that decorates something else. Environment with grit... @carsoncenter.bsky.social @aehhub.bsky.social

ICYMI: This essay by @palmblad.bsky.social is the first in a series co-published by @whitehorsepress.bsky.social & ICEHO in which emerging environmental history scholars respond to essays by foundational environmental historians... #envhist Read the full essay: whitehorsepress.blog/2026/03/24/i...

niche-canada.org/2026/05/12/c... @iceho.bsky.social #Anthropocene @aehhub.bsky.social

cartoon, 1963. #rachelcarson #silentspring #envhist

"Famine patterns show this potential relationship as well. In 1877 and 1878, famine was reported in Peking, Foochow, and Tseng Un, present-day Taiwan." - Lilia Scudamore, @iowcmcgill.bsky.social niche-canada.org/2023/09/11/m... #envhist #climhist #dhist

Fur Trade (1946) - National Film Board of Canada "An outline of the history of the fur trade, and of the commercial use of furs in Canada." www.youtube.com/watch?v=8J_-... #envhist #cdnhist

Check out George B. Ellenberg's review of James Rick's "Cultivating Machines: The Use and Maintenance of Technology in Midwestern Agriculture, 1845–1900," published in 2025 by ohiostatepress.bsky.social #envhist #envhum #aghist #envtech www.h-net.org/reviews/show...

New in Arcadia: Karel Šima writes about how interwar nature conservation in Subcarpathian Ruthenia (then in Checkoslovakia) created conditions for the research of Albert Pilát, which came to shape modern mycology and forest awareness. #envhist #envhum #mycology #mushroom

Call for Submissions - Suta-Kahini: The Crafts and Characters of Bengal Textiles An Examination and Celebration of the Environmental & Human Resources of the Bengal Delta A NiCHE New Scholars Series Proposal Deadline: 30 June 2026 Edited by Debasree Sarkar niche-canada.org/2026/05/16/c... #envhum

We have a new logo! Made by Gilberto Mazzoli, who has also designed the official logo of the ESEH, and who moreover is a part of NEXTGATe. By the way, join our listserv with a monthly newsletter on #EnvHist and #EnvHum opportunities by sending us your email address in a DM!

This is where we met for the 2019 World Congress of Environmental History. Read about how the host institution, the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC), has assisted civil society in a class action law suit that aims to give rights to the beautiful but polluted lagoon. #envhist

Check out Mona Bieling's review of Eric T. Jennings's "Vanilla: The History of an Extraordinary Bean," published in 2025 by @yalepress.bsky.social; review now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhist #envhum #aghist www.h-net.org/reviews/show...

May at the @greenhouseuis.net with our regular Monday book talks, Wednesday research talks and many special events featuring @mmendoza.bsky.social, Hauke Ohls, @erikahanna.bsky.social and others. #envhum 🌷

Tomorrow’s Tuesday Colloquium is convened by RCC Director Christof Mauch and Research Fellow Paolo Gruppuso under the headline “Thinking Through Wet Lands: Lives and Landscapes In-Between.” www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/events_conf_... #rccevents #munich #free #opentopublic #envhum #wetlands

Check out Dorota Kolbuk's review of Jodi Summers's "We Dig Ammonites: Fact, Folklore, and History," published in 2025 by @columbiaup.bsky.social; review now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhist #envhum #histsci www.h-net.org/reviews/show...

This Tuesday, Adrienne Brown, Katie Kung, and Teja Šosterič will join us for the Tuesday Discussion by presenting @envhistnow.bsky.social. www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/events_conf_... #rccevents #research #publishing #envhist #free #open @historistew.bsky.social @katiekung.bsky.social

*Globalizing Wildlife* is OUT THIS MONTH (!) with @uncpress.bsky.social “An essential and timely intervention… exciting, cutting-edge vantages on crucial global histories” -Daniel Vandersommers Edited by @rafdebont.bsky.social myself, & Tom Quick #animalhist #globalhist #HistSci #envhist

"Nearly 500 people attended this year’s ASEH. 140 of them were students and 160 first-time presenters at this meeting, showing the dynamism of this community." Read Kathleen Brosnan's full #ASEH2026 reflection on our website: www.iceho.org/news/2026/4/... #envhist @aseh.bsky.social

The Intersections book series at @upittpress.bsky.social is on sale in May - 40% off! upittpress.org/intersection... This includes Sharing Spaces: Technology, Mediation, and Human-Animal Relationships, which I co-edited with @finnarne.me #envhist #books

"Flora’s Fieldworkers contains many images like Mueller’s textbook, which evoke the excitement of archival research when a new document is unpacked from a storage box or found in an ancient dusty bound volume." Pat Bowley niche-canada.org/2023/01/30/r... #envhist #histsci #nathist #books #wmnshist

If Tuesday finds you in Edmonton. #cdnhist #envhist #weatherhistory

Check out Adam Sundberg's review of Vincent Bruyere's "Environmental Humanities on the Brink: The Vanitas Hypothesis," published in 2023 by @stanfordpress.bsky.social; review now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhum #ecocrit #envhist www.h-net.org/reviews/show...

Ahead of new print alert! You can now read John Kanbayashi's "Watershed Protection as Dispossession in Japanese-Occupied Taiwan" from the April 2026 issue. #envhist #envhum www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

🎶 @markstoll.bsky.social added a couple more song suggestions to our Earth Day playlist. Would love to hear YOUR picks in the comments as well! 🎶 niche-canada.org/2026/04/22/w... #envhist #envhum #music #playlist #musichistory #earthday

www.rmit.edu.au/events/2026/... #Anthropocene @anthropocenekth.bsky.social @aehhub.bsky.social @iceho.bsky.social

This second edition is essential reading - for everyone. If there’s one book I’d recommend in environmental history, it might be this. With an introduction by @brdemuth.bsky.social! #EnvHist

Spanish-speaking #EnvHist scholars, check out the upcoming Seminario de Historia Ambiental de El Colegio de México. You can watch it YouTube at 11am (Mexico City) on 22 April. www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcXo...

New Arcadia article by Eiko Honda: learn how the Japanese naturalist-polymath Minakata Kumagusu’s (1867–1941) fascination with slime mold shaped a multispecies onto-epistemology—and a fierce campaign to protect shrines and sacred forests. www.environmentandsociety.org/node/10086/ #envhum #envhist

New report from ASEH 2026 by our own Kathy Brosnan! Read about the latest conference in Kansas City: www.iceho.org/news/2026/4/... #EnvHist @aseh.bsky.social @asehearlycareer.bsky.social

Marco Armiero's ERC project welcomes PhD candidates and Postdocs! A PDF in English is available at the bottom of the page. The project is called "CATCH: The Catholic Church and the Environment" #envhist #envhum

The latest issue of Environment and History (32.2) is out now! Subscribers can read here: liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/toc/whpeh/32... 🗃️ #envhist

Worth re-sharing for #envhist and #envhum folks! We’re excited to feature new research into extraction in the Midwest, past and present.

Now that we all left KC after a wonderful #ASEH #ASEH2026, continue the scholar conversation by reviewing a book for H-Environment! Check out my list of books below! #envhist #envhum #ecocrit #aghist #energy #animalhist #sustainability #anthropocene #plantstudies docs.google.com/document/d/1...

New essay in our series on “Building Environmental History Around the World”! Jonatan Palmblad responds to Sverker Sörlin’s essay from the latest issue of Global Environment. Together, these two essays bring together the environmental humanities and history in Sweden and beyond. #envhist #envhum

Registration for our new Masters in Public Environmental Humanities is still open for Nordic students (either citizens or did bachelors in a Nordic country). Please pass along this great tuition-free study opportunity! www.uis.no/en/studies/t... #envhum #envhist #ecocrit

Issue 3.1 of ‘Plant Perspectives’ is now live online. This journal is #openaccess again in 2026 through #subscribetoopen – with warm thanks to all of our subscriber-supporters! Read it here: www.whp-journals.co.uk/PP/index #plantstudies #envhum @plantperspectives.bsky.social

Check out @georgeholmes.bsky.social's review of @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social's "Ghosts Behind Glass: Encountering Extinction in Museums," published in 2025 by @uchicagopress.bsky.social; review now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhist #envhum #anthropocene www.h-net.org/reviews/show...

The fantasy (and hubris) of technological objects when they are in fact envirotechical things #histtech #envhist #envirotech

RIP Paul Ehrlich, influential environmentalist and author of The Population Bomb. #envhist #environmentalism #population memoritree.com/memorial/pau...