Australia Burning
21 minutes
In November 2019, as forest fires worked their way south along the Great Dividing Range, I walked for a week in the Australian Alps. The wild granite ...Filling the Blue Hole in Environmental History
6 minutes
There is a blue hole in environmental history. It remains a remarkably landlocked discipline, one that largely ignores the seven-tenths of our globe’s...Uses of Environmental History: Lise Sedrez
by Lise Sedrez
4 minutes
São Paulo, the largest city in South America, is going through a historical drought. So is California, in the USA. That is how newspapers refer to the...Uses of Environmental History: Don Worster
5 minutes
If I did not believe that environmental history is already useful and practical, more so than other fields of historical research, then I would have a...Uses of Environmental History: John R. McNeill
8 minutes
“As Useful as We Want to Be” Environmental or ecological historians do not “need to become more useful and practical” in anything. They sho...