Environmental history isn’t new. Fernand Braudel’s 1949 masterpiece, The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II, a pioneering attempt to produce a histoire totale focused on ...

To some extent, government watchdogs, scientists, and climate and environmental activists were expecting this. During the first Trump administration, the use of terms like “climate change,” “clean ...

On Juneteenth, I draw strength from the rich history of Black communities’ struggles for environmental justice.

Environmental history studies the human-influenced changes that have occurred throughout the world’s natural landscapes and how those changes affect both the Earth and humanity itself. The conference ...

Egypt’s environmental history offers a warning for COP27. For two centuries, Egypt’s infrastructure projects have realized some goals — but most also turned into disasters of different kinds ...

Over the span of 800 years of history, the book connects the dots of how the pursuit of empire, environmental destruction, and human migration led us to this moment in time. SciFri producer Kathleen ...

Adam Rome is an environmental historian. He can speak to the media about various topics in environmental history — the study of how human societies have interacted with and exploited the natural world ...

Recent and major shifts in international environmental policies and programs have precedent in history, but the scale and urgency of their potential impacts present a planetary risk that’s new ...

Bathsheba Demuth is an environmental historian of the Arctic at Brown University. Her book Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait was released in 2021. (Photo by Marlena Sloss) ...

Lehigh University’s virtual reality worlds provide six immersive scenarios that use games and virtual field trips to teach players about the Lehigh Valley’s environmental and industrial ...

“We’re really losing our history here; we’re losing our environmental history,” Santarsiero told the Bulletin last week. To some extent, government watchdogs, scientists, and climate and ...