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Ruth Morgan has kindly allowed use to publish her introduction to John Dargavel’s Anthropocene Days from a launch event held at the ANU in Canberra on 18 April 2023. Thank you – it’s a real honour to have the opportunity to speak about John’s book and his work. I’d like to pay my respects to … More Address by Ruth Morgan at the Launch of John Dargavel’s Anthropocene Days

In this blog, Anna Guasco introduces her newly published article in Environment and History, (Online-first March 2023) From Devil-Fish to Friendly Whale? Encountering Gray Whales on The California Coast This research started, as many whale stories do, with a ‘thar she blows!’ This work was born of salt water and sea spray, of stories told while … More Tracking Devil-Fishes and Friendly Whales

In this blog, John Cropper introduces his new article in Environment and History, ‘Growing a World Wonder’: The Great Green Wall and the History of Environmental Decline in the Sahel, 1450–2022 (online first March 2023), which argues that the Great Green Wall Initiative gave new life to the ‘declinist’ narrative of the African environment and … More ‘Growing a World Wonder’: Problematising the Great Green Wall