In this blog, first published as the ICEHO pages in Global Environment (16.3, October 2023), Finis Dunaway ruminates on the importance of images in environmental history as ‘representations, traces and vital agents’ that ‘historians can … use … as primary sources [that] played an active role in the making of the environmental past’. Dunaway is … More Representations, traces, vital agents: why images matter to environmental history

In this blog Martí Serra Riera introduces one of the case studies in his new article in Environment and History (online first January 20024), The Making of the Antinuclear Movement in the Bay of Biscay: Similar Movements in Different Contexts The struggle against the construction of the Lemoiz nuclear power plant (1976–1982) in the Basque … More Antinuclear mobilisation in the Basque Country – the case of Lemoiz

This blog by Cameron Boyle, originally published a a Snapshot in Environment and History 29.2, May 2023) addresses connections between the local extinction of kākā, a native parrot, and the colonial erasure of related indigenous Māori place names and meanings, in Wellington, New Zealand’s capital city. The loss of kākā in the early twentieth century … More WHEN THE PARROT RETURNS TO ITS PERCH: CONTESTATION OF PLACE AND NATURE IN WELLINGTON, AOTEAROA NEW ZEALAND

This blog republishes the ‘Snapshot’ article by Henry Jacobs that first appeared in Environment and History 29.2 (May 2023) addressing the history of the Panama Canal Zone Summit Gardens in the context of concerns about extractivism and exploitation, depletion and species extinction. James Edgar ( J.E.) Higgins ‘devoted his entire life to tropical agriculture’ and in service … More SCARCITY AT SUMMIT: THE ARC OF ENVIRONMENTAL ATTITUDES AT A PANAMANIAN BOTANICAL GARDEN

This blog by Emily O’Gorman reflecting on more-than-human histories was originally published as the ICEHO pages in Global Environment 16.2 (June 2023). Emily is the author of Wetlands in a Dry Land: More-than-Human-Histories of Australia’s Murray-Darling Basin (University of Washington Press, 2020), joint winner of the inaugural Australian and Aotearoa New Zealand Environmental History Network … More WHAT’S IN A NAME? MORE-THAN-HUMAN APPROACHES AND ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY

 This blog reproduces the concluding commentary written by Maryam Niamir-Fuller, Co-Chair of the International Support Group for the International Year of Rangelands and Pastoralists 2026, to the recent Special Issue of Nomadic Peoples entitled ‘Sedentist Biases in Law, Policy and Practic’, edited by Greta Semplici and Cory Rodgers. The whole issue (and all 2023 content) … More SEDENTIST BIASES IN LAW, POLICY AND PRACTICE: CONCLUDING COMMENTARY

This edited volume by Viktor Pál, Tuomas Räsänen and Mikko Saikku is now available online and Open Access. It will be published in print on 15 October – and can be purchased from our online bookstore. The editors’ introduction to the volume is reproduced here to give readers a flavour of this ground-breaking collection. Finland … More Green Development or Greenwashing: Environmental Histories of Finland