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In this blog Shelley Kolstad evokes the sensory and embodied experience of the fieldwork site that inspired her article in Plant Perspectives (online first May 2026), ‘Between the “Outlier” and “the Dead”: Ethnographic and Phenomenological Encounters with a Mangrove Community’. In January this year I returned to the Daintree to visit the mangroves that are … More Embodied perspectives from red mangrove territory
In today’s blog, Pedro Pablo Achondo Moya introduces his article just published in Plant Perspectives (21 April 2026, online first) ‘The Power of a Small Herb: The Case of Huacatay in the Community Garden of the Limache Hospital’, encouraging us to look more closely at, think more carefully about, the seemingly insignificant ‘small plants’ that … More What Can a Small Herb Do? Huacatay and the Quiet Redesign of a Chilean Hospital
This essay by Jonatan Palmblad is the first in a series co-published with ICEHO in which emerging environmental history scholars respond to essays by foundational environmental historians whose reflections on the field are featured in Global Environment. Jonatan responds to here to Sverker Sörlin’s ‘Staying Open – Shaping Environmental History in Sweden’, published in Global Environment in … More The Environments of History: An Account by a Human Organism
Today we at the White Horse Press announce a change to the editorship of Plant Perspectives. Issue 3.1 (published last week) marks John C. Ryan’s last as editor. We are hugely grateful to John for all his work in establishing Plant Perspectives and bringing it to the prominent position it already occupies in the field. While we are … More Plant Perspectives – meet the new editor!
In this blog, originally published as a Snapshot in Environment and History (November 2025), Robert Piotrowski explores ‘the impact of economic, environmental and military crises (such as deforestation, war damage and inflation) on changes in the choice of building materials’ in the Plock Mazovian Region of Poland. The Plock Mazovian Region is a historical-ethnographic region … More Crisis Materials and Local Resilience: Environmental Determinants of Building Practices in nineteenth and twentieth century Rural Poland
In this blog, linked to their recently published Open Access article (online first, February 2026) in Environment and History, ‘Multifunctional Landscapes in Central Mainland Portugal: The Royal Administration of Almeirim and Sustainable Land Use from the Fourteenth to the Sixteenth Century’, Koldo Trapaga-Monchet and Raúl Romero-Calcerrada aim to shed light on the history of the royal … More The royal forests of Almeirim: A multifunctional landscape in the larger Ribatejo geographical-cultural area
Today’s blog by Donghyun Woo introduces his recent article in Environment and History (online first, 2026), ‘Squid and Socialists: Power, Nature and the Unruly East Sea in North Korea, 1945–1964’, and discusses what North Korea’s squid history can teach us. In the summer of 1962, the North Korean state hosted a unique squid-fishing competition for squid in … More The Squid That Changed North Korea’s Socialist Policies
In this blog, first published as a ‘Snapshot’ in Environment and History (November 2025) Eliot Fackler shows how the histories of western Lake Erie and the Black Swamp provide lessons from Indigenous land-use practices which might offer new ways of addressing current environmental challenges. On 2 August 2014, the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency and public … More Lake Erie’s Toxic Algae and the Dismal History of the Black Swamp
Today’s blog by Björn Billing introduces his recent article in Environment and History (online first, December 2025), Visualising Icebergs: Early Modern Depictions, ca 1570–1770 and shows how early illustrations of icebergs and glaciers testify to the dramatic impacts of climate change over the centuries. A23a is on the move again. This iceberg has been drifting … More Visualising Icebergs in the Early Modern Period
In this blog, Claudia Leal contextualises her new article in Environment and History, Tenacious: An Alternative History of Dogs (online first October 2025), which aims to contribute to the broader history of human–dog relationships from a new perspective, that of ‘the tropical Andes, rather than the cradle of empire’. Last night, I woke up at 3:30 … More Do the vast majority of world dogs – past and present – have a place in history?
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