From Trenches to Trees: Rebuilding Madrid’s War-Torn University

May 26, 2026

In this blog Santiago Gorostiza, Alejandro Pérez-Olivares, Daniel Oviedo Silva and José María Sánchez Laforet synthesise the contribution of their recent Open Access article in Environment and History (online first May 2025), The Long Shadow of the Pines: Vegetation in the Birth, Destruction and Reconstruction of Madrid’s University City (1927–1956). Upon entering the hall of the Faculty of … More From Trenches to Trees: Rebuilding Madrid’s War-Torn University

Embodied perspectives from red mangrove territory

May 20, 2026

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

What Can a Small Herb Do? Huacatay and the Quiet Redesign of a Chilean Hospital

April 22, 2026

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

The Environments of History: An Account by a Human Organism

March 24, 2026

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

Plant Perspectives – meet the new editor!

March 17, 2026

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!

Crisis Materials and Local Resilience: Environmental Determinants of Building Practices in nineteenth and twentieth century Rural Poland

March 10, 2026

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

The royal forests of Almeirim: A multifunctional landscape in the larger Ribatejo geographical-cultural area

February 17, 2026

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

The Squid That Changed North Korea’s Socialist Policies

February 9, 2026

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

Lake Erie’s Toxic Algae and the Dismal History of the Black Swamp

January 19, 2026

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

Visualising Icebergs in the Early Modern Period

December 22, 2025

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