Killing a Baboon: Applied History and the Anthropocene Ape
by Sandra Swart
36 minutes
#JusticeForRaygun is trending in South Africa. He was a young male baboon who had left his mother’s troop and set off, on a journey to adulthood. This...The Place of the Moon
15 minutes
The same Moon rises everywhere, but, for me, the Moon is part of the US West. It rose over my first house near Logan, Utah; three houses in Tucson, Ar...The Poetics of Dunes
11 minutes
I grew up by the sea, in the warm south of Portugal, swimming in the ocean and playing in the sand. I didn’t know then that my childhood playground wa...Stop Saving the Planet!—and Other Tips via Rachel Carson for Twenty-First-Century Environmentalists
by Jenny Price
42 minutes
Rachel Carson was a visionary. She’s a towering figure in the modern environmental movement. She’s widely considered to be its founding voice, and she...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 ...
The Isthmus of Panama and the Knowledge Anthropocene
18 minutes
In the final chapter of Man and Nature, his landmark 1864 study of an earth transformed by human action, George Perkins Marsh looked ahead to a...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...