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 ...

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 ...

Troubled waters in Ecotopia: environmental racism in Portland, Oregon / Ellen Stroud. Documents -- Part 12. Backlash against the environmental movement. Documents -- Part 13. Legacies. Documents ...

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 ...

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 ...

Environmental history is an inter-disciplinary subject, meaning that historians, scientists and other scholars must look over the boundaries of their own subject ...

Last month’s killing of a nonbinary activist known as “Tortuguita,” marked the first police killing of a demonstrator in the history of the U.S. environmental movement.

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) ...

“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 ...