In today’s blog, John C. Ryan, editor of Plant Perspectives, ruminates on the power, intelligence and empathy of plants – and invites submissions to The White Horse Press’s new interdisciplinary plant humanities journal. The exciting identification of Asia’s tallest tree, a 102-metre cypress in Tibet’s Yarlung Tsangpo Grand Canyon, calls attention to how we monumentalise … More On the Intelligent Presence of Plants: The ‘Bright Thought Submerged’

In today’s blog, Isis Brook, Deputy Editor of Plant Perspectives, reports on a very special plant humanities conference held in Palermo in May. Plant Perspectives is now open for submissions – this is your invitation to pass through the ‘portal to the plant realm’! How wonderful to have a conference and summer school on philosophy … More Vegetal Turn Conference: Palermo, May 2023 

In today’s blog, Biswajit Sarmah introduces his recently published article in Environment and History (Fast-track April 2023) Empire, Nature and Agrarian World: A History of Rhino Preservation in the Kaziranga Game Reserve, India (1902–1938)  The return of the greater one-horned rhino (Rhinoceros unicornis) is considered one of the most successful conservation stories. Historically, the rhino … More Empire, Nature and Agrarian World: A History of Rhino Preservation in Kaziranga Game Reserve, India (1902–1938)

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

Today’s blog by Mica Jorgenson is associated with her just-published article in Environment and History, Wild Smoke: Managing Forest Pollution in Northern British Columbia since 1950 (online first February 2023). Co-publication with NiCHE ‘A bank of pale gray smoke pours into the bay from the north and rolls over the water, engulfing the freighters in … More Wild Smoke: Forest Fires and Air Pollution in BC since 1950

Today’s blog by Dotan Halevy relates to his article published recently in Environment and History (online first 2022): Sand and the City: On Colonial Development and its Evasive Enemies in Twentieth-Century Palestine Aldo Leopold’s A Sand County Almanac (1949) brings together two decades of thinking and writing about land, landscape, flora, fauna, and the system that ties them … More Sands, Lupines and the Ecology of the Uncultivable

On 28 February 2023, The White Horse Press will publish John Dargavel’s Anthropocene Days, a collection of interlinked essays by one of Australia’s first environmental historians. The strikingly illustrated volume serves as a fragmentary memoir of the author’s 90 years on this Earth and focuses on how environment is experienced in the everyday. While the … More Dust and Dusting: A Taster of John Dargavel’s Anthropocene Days

This blog by Roger Norum originally appeared as the ICEHO pages in Global Environment 15.3 (October 2022). We are reposting today because Roger is the chair of the local organising committee for the 4th World Congress of Environmental History to be held in Oulu on 19-23 August 2024, whose CFP has just been launched! ‘Maps … More NAVIGATING TRANSFORMATIONS AND TRANSDISCIPLINARITY IN NORTHERN FINLAND