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, ...

Whatsapp Environmental history reveals how past human actions shaped today’s climate crises, urging sustainable development ...

Environmental history helps experts analyze the present climate crisis in the context of the past. Decisions that brought us to this moment—from converting forests to farmland centuries ago to the ...

A new article discusses vital methodological issues for humanities-based historical inquiry and argues that the challenges of the Anthropocene demand interdisciplinary research informed by a variety ...

I think it’s fair to say that no field of history has grown more swiftly—in quantity or sophistication—in the 21st century than environmental history. The reason is, I suspect, self-evident: it’s in ...

In the 15th century, amidst a prolonged era of imperial violence, a damaging chain of events played out on the island of Madeira, located in the northern Atlantic, that would repeat itself over and ...

Part 1. The natures of Indian America before Columbus. The pristine myth: the landscape of the Americas in 1492 / William M. Denevan. Documents -- Part 2. The other invaders: deadly diseases and ...

This story was originally published by The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. As the director of the National Security Archive’s ...

Introduction: No more the backward region : Southern environmental history comes of age / Paul S. Sutter -- Animals into the wilderness : the development of livestock husbandry in the ...

New programs for the new season; lectures, tours and classes in September Lisa K. Friedman Explore how humans shaped our ancient homeland with Sara Dant’s “An Environmental History of the American ...

The field of environmental studies examines the complex relationships between humans and the natural world. Like environmental science, students of environmental studies learn about ecology, biology, ...

DULUTH — George Vrtis and Christopher W. Wells are the editors of a new book about the environmental history of Minnesota. If you don't run out and buy a copy, they understand. A tent nestled in pines ...