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...Where Ideas Grow: Life at the Landhaus
8 minutes
As I’m about to leave the Landhaus, the Alps are erased from the horizon. The sky is a fierce and brilliant blue, the light piercing, perfect white. O...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...Is All Environmental Humanities Feminist Environmental Humanities?
by Lauren LaFauci and Cecilia Åsberg
10 minutes
The genealogy of environmental humanities as a field is difficult to map precisely because the field resists singular or definitive categorization wit...Pitching the Anthropocene: Global Media Work and the World to Come
8 minutes
From around the age of 15, I think, I had wanted to be a journalist, and in the pre-Amazon time before print publishing’s great data-driven reckoning ...Picturing Complexity: Environmental Photojournalism in the Twentieth Century
6 minutes
Ever since the invention of photography in the late nineteenth century, animals, plants, picturesque sites, sublime landscapes, and human interactions...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...
The Constitution of the Republic of Ecuador: Pachamama Has Rights
5 minutes
Nature has recently been recognized as a subject rather than an object of rights in some Latin American countries. This is the case in Bolivia, on a l...A Mind Divided against Itself: Thinking Holistically with a Split Brain
by Frank Zelko
11 minutes
I am an environmental historian by training, and a good slice of my research involves examining the intellectual and cultural history of environmental...