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

Our podcast, Nature's Past, hosted by @seankheraj.bsky.social, is back with a new episode after a multi-year break! Learn about @tinaadcock.bsky.social's book in "Nature’s Past Episode 77: Modern Exploration and the Canadian North." niche-canada.org/2026/03/24/n... #envhist #histsci #cdnhist

Nature's Past podcast is back! On episode 77, we speak with @tinaadcock.bsky.social about her new book on the history of modern exploration of the Canadian North. #envhist #cdnhist niche-canada.org/2026/03/24/n...

Thrilled to chat with @seankheraj.bsky.social about *A Cold Colonialism* on his Nature's Past podcast! The episode is now live; check it out here! #envhist #envhum #cdnhist @ubcpress.bsky.social niche-canada.org/2026/03/24/n...

How can we reimagine the systems that continue to fail the city’s most vulnerable people through radical approaches to care? Join @torontomet.bsky.social's Office of Social Innovation on March 24 for The Radical Labour of Care panel discussion. Learn more at torontomu.ca/transformationcafe

This film was such a privilege to make. Please take a look! #EnvHist #histSTM

The Department of History at Queen’s University is hiring for the Buchanan Postdoctoral Fellow in Canadian History. Please help us circulate this advertisement widely in your networks. www.queensu.ca/history/abou...

Excited to be back at this in far too long. Big thanks to all the LAC staff who helped me find my way this morning. #envhist #cdnhist

Over halfway to the 2025 fundraising target for @nichecanada.bsky.social! Thanks so much to everyone who has contributed. #envhist #cdnhist fnd.us/niche2025

Happy and excited to support @nichecanada.bsky.social again this year. Still publishing great work and leading the field of environmental history in Canada. Please consider making a contribution too! #envhist #cdnhist fnd.us/niche2025

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I "vibe coded" this moon phase calculator web app using Google Gemini's Canvas tool: www.seankheraj.com/Moonphasecal... Find the phase of the moon on your birthday!

New book review: @seankheraj.bsky.social reviews @danielmacfarlane.bsky.social's Natural Allies: Environment, Energy, and the History of US–Canada Relations in the latest issue of @eandhwhp.bsky.social www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/... #envhist #cdnhist #bookreview

“The industry has the kind of faith in the future that has made America great and continues to hold even greater promise for our civilization.” Oil industry perspective on the growing consumption of petroleum products in the 1950s (Feb 23, 1953).

Dimitry Anastakis arguably knows more about the Auto Pact and Canada-US relations in the automobile industry than anyone else. His piece in the Globe is worth a read - as are his books on the topic!: www.theglobeandmail.com/business/com...

We just published another paper in Papers in Canadian History & Environment! Read Glenn Iceton's paper on historical and ongoing conflicts over land use and resource extraction in the Yukon Territory. #cdnhist #envhist niche-canada.org/2025/01/29/t...

“The Machine feeds us and clothes us and houses us; through it we speak to one another, through it we see one another, in it we have our being. The Machine is the friend of ideas and the enemy of superstition: the Machine is omnipotent, eternal; blessed is the Machine.” E.M. Forster (1909)

Today I’m debuting a new #EnvHist podcast series, “The Climate Chronicles.” In 8 seasons and 42 episodes, I’ll tell the remarkable story of how #ClimateChange influenced humanity’s past. Visit the website: theclimatechronicles.com (1/6)

So interesting to see what the most read articles have been on our site. #envhist #cdnhist niche-canada.org/2024/12/19/n...

We will be publishing our next paper in Papers in Canadian History & Environment next month. Sign up for a free subscription to be sure to get a copy. #envhist #cdnhist niche-canada.org/newsletter/

Graduate Student Opportunities: Mining Danger Project Call for Students Students who are interested in studying any aspect of mine workers or mining communities are encouraged to contact any of the co-investigators for info. niche-canada.org/2024/12/16/g... #envhist #mining

Today we are sharing @seankheraj.bsky.social's @thewalrus.ca talk from earlier this year featuring "Three Stories of Oil Pipeline Opposition." niche-canada.org/2024/12/13/t... #envhist #energyhistory #cdnhist

My forthcoming book, *A Cold Colonialism: Modern Exploration and the Canadian North,* now has a page on @ubcpress.bsky.social's website! Very excited to see it appear next June 1st -- and more motivated now to finish reviewing these copyedits 💪 #cdnhist www.ubcpress.ca/a-cold-colon...

Did you know that Papers in Canadian history and Environment (PiCHE) is a scholar-led, open access, peer-reviewed paper series published online and free for anyone to read. Take a look! #envhist #cdnhist niche-canada.org/piche/

Friends & supporters! We are hoping to wrap up our annual fundraiser TODAY!! But we're still 20% of the way to our goal. The average donation has been $183, which is amazing. But we'd love to see more smaller support come in. Let's do this! Donate here: fundrazr.com/niche2024?re... #envhist

fwiw, hardcover copies of my book are currently available from ubc press for $36.95 instead of the usual $89.95. these are the final "physical" copies of the book available, unless the press decides to print another run of paperbacks. #bchist #cdnhist www.ubcpress.ca/british-colu...

Fort McKay #Métis Nation: A Community History is coming in early 2025 via @UCalgaryPress! Look for it in book stores or download for free online! press.ucalgary.ca/books/978177... #cdnhist #abhist #oilsands #tarsands …

NiCHE is doing great work for the environmental history community in Canada and beyond! If you have the financial means, consider contributing. #envhist

Greetings new Blue Sky followers! In case you missed the news, @nichecanada.bsky.social needs your support! Please consider donating today to support the environmental history community in Canada. #envhist #cdnhist fundrazr.com/niche2024

Please consider making a donation to the Network in Canadian History & Environment this year. If you like our work and want to see us continue to serve as a community for scholars of environmental history, contribute today and help us reach our goal. #envhist #cdnhist fnd.us/niche2024?re...

We’ve published a new peer-reviewed paper! Check out Chad Montrie’s ““Agenda for the 1970s”: A Genealogy of Organized Labour’s Environmental Activism in Ontario.” #envhist #cdnhist niche-canada.org/2024/10/30/a...

I really like these maps and visualizations. Canadian Refining Capacity, 1952-53. Source: Oil in Canada, April 21, 1952, p. 22

Similar point of view, 190 years apart. The fence in the foreground of John Howard’s 1834 painting of William Allan’s Moss Park estate (ROM collections) would be just beyond today’s Moss Park Armoury at background-centre of photo. #aghist #cdnhist #envhist utorontopress.com/978148755353...

New 𝘈𝘳𝘤𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘢 article on the 1972 𝘔𝘺𝘳𝘵𝘦𝘢 oil spill in the Singapore Strait, its environmental impact, and subsequent policy changes. By Miklas Sauermann. Read it on the Environment & Society Portal! #envhist #envhum

This month I feature @danrueck.bsky.social, @julialaite.bsky.social, @washingtonpost.com, and more! #envhist #envhum

We thrilled to announce that Andrew Watson is our 2024 NiCHE Prize for Best Book in Canadian #EnvHist Prize Winner for Making Muskoka: Tourism, Rural Identity, and Sustainability, 1870–1920 (@ubcpress.bsky.social 2022)! niche-canada.org/2024/06/19/b... #cdnhist #books

Today on our site we have "The Many and Amphibious Lives of China’s Historical Wetlands" by Yan Gao This post by Yan Gao is the twelfth post in the Wetland Wednesday series, edited by @gabtm.bsky.social niche-canada.org/2024/06/19/t... #envhist #china #wetlands

My colleague and friend just won the prize for best book in Canadian environmental history. Congratulations, Andrew! niche-canada.org/2024/06/19/b... #envhist #cdnhist

Read our latest in Papers in Canadian History & Environment by Erin Spinney. Free to download now! niche-canada.org/2024/04/12/t... #envhist #cdnhist

2024 marks our 20th year! Join us for our first "NiCHE at 20" event! Join @alanmaceachern.bsky.social, @seankheraj.bsky.social, J. Bonnell, A. Watson, E. Lupino-Smith, & @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social to discuss of our role in cultivating community in #envhist niche-canada.org/2024/04/09/o...

Source: Second Report of the Royal Commission on Energy (July 1959).

New York Times, October 28, 1993, Section C, Page 1, 6. www.nytimes.com/1993/10/28/g...

Today on our site we have "Finding Home in Costa Rica: A Canadian Undergraduate Student’s Co-Op Experience" by Amber McNeil Part 1 of a 2 part series highlighting the International Development Studies Program Co-op at U of T Scarborough niche-canada.org/2024/01/25/f... #envstudies #envhist #IR

The first 2024 issue of Environment and History is now published online, including a bumper collection of three shorter Snapshots articles: liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/toc/whpeh/30/1 #envhist #envhum

Call for Participants: 2024 Canadian History & Environment Summer School / Appel à participant·e·s: École d’été en histoire de l’environnement 2024 Staples and Canadian History: Commodities, Ports, and Urban Space in Montreal. niche-canada.org/2024/01/11/c...

New open-access #envhist of Wood Buffalo National Park centring Indigenous peoples #cdnhist press.ucalgary.ca/books/978177...

Jennifer Tunnicliffe's essay today is the first installment in a two-part series to mark the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Our editor, Blake Butler, chose "Arctic Environments in the Classroom" by Jonathan Peyton as our latest Editor's Pick! niche-canada.org/2023/10/11/a... #envhist #envhum #teaching #arctic #cdnhist

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