CONTEXTUALISING EXTRACTIVE LANDSCAPES FOR CLIMATE FORECASTING     

June 20, 2025

In this blog, originally published as a Snapshot in Environment and History (February 2025) Emma L. Verstraete uses the history of the Seward Peninsula in Alaska to demonstrate why using a critical lens on past human modifications across the landscape can provide vital context for modern researchers working in regions that have experienced large volumes … More CONTEXTUALISING EXTRACTIVE LANDSCAPES FOR CLIMATE FORECASTING     

‘THIS DISAGREEABLE WEED’: ARABLE PLANT CONSERVATION MAY BENEFIT FROM HISTORICAL PUBLICATION INSIGHTS

June 11, 2025

In this blog, first published as Snapshot in Environment and History (May 2025), Kelly Hemmings explores how agricultural ‘improvement’ and agrochemicals have shaped and reshaped conceptualisations of arable plants (crops, wildflowers, weeds) in British fields since the 1750s. Introduction Arable plants, such as Cornflower (Centaurea cyanus), are the wild species that grow on cultivated land, … More ‘THIS DISAGREEABLE WEED’: ARABLE PLANT CONSERVATION MAY BENEFIT FROM HISTORICAL PUBLICATION INSIGHTS

A BIRCH MEMORY WEB

May 22, 2025

Mykyta Peregrym’s essay, originally published in Plant Perspectives 2.1 (April 2025) explores the profound and intricate connections between personal memories and birch trees throughout the author’s life, from the Soviet Union and Ukraine to Finnish Lapland, intertwining the author’s childhood experiences, family history and adult reflections with birch trees functioning as poignant symbols of continuity … More A BIRCH MEMORY WEB

‘THE LIGHT OF DAY WAS OUR COMRADE’: ECOLOGIES OF FORCED DISPLACEMENT AND THE CHALLENGE OF UNFAMILIAR ENVIRONMENTS

April 2, 2025

In this blog, originally published as an Environment and History ‘Snapshot’ in August 2024, Dimitrios Bormpoudakis uses the case of forced exile in Greek islands to illustrate how ecologies of displacement matter in adapting to climate change. ‘Narratives of the [past] matter in climate adaptation’.[1] Following this cue, I argue that environmental histories about displacement matter … More ‘THE LIGHT OF DAY WAS OUR COMRADE’: ECOLOGIES OF FORCED DISPLACEMENT AND THE CHALLENGE OF UNFAMILIAR ENVIRONMENTS

ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY’S USABLE PAST: ON REVIVING THE SCHOLARSHIP OF SYNTHESIS

March 13, 2025

In this blog, originally published as the ICEHO pages in Global Environment 17.3 Jonatan Palmblad advocates for a renewed scholarship of synthesis – the ability to bridge theory and practice, history, present and future – and even the physical and the metaphysical It was the Spanish-American philosopher George Santayana who observed that ‘Those who cannot remember the … More ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY’S USABLE PAST: ON REVIVING THE SCHOLARSHIP OF SYNTHESIS

MONUMENTAL TREES, OR THE PHENOMENOLOGICAL GUARDIANS OF THE LANDSCAPE

February 27, 2025

This blog by Tomasz Związek on trees as ‘memorial anchors’ was originally a Snapshot in Environment and History (August 2024). The journal is currently seeking pitches for this year’s Snapshots: find out more here. Trees of my Fatherland! if Heaven grants that I return to behold you, old friends, shall I find you still? Do ye still … More MONUMENTAL TREES, OR THE PHENOMENOLOGICAL GUARDIANS OF THE LANDSCAPE

THE EXTRA-PLANETARY MINE: SPACE MINING AS CONTINUITY

February 19, 2025

This blog reproduces the Environment and History ‘Snapshot’ on space expansionism by Thomas Cheney first published in August 2024. Snapshots is now open for a new round of submissions. Please contact Deputy Editor Tyson Luneau with your pitches for 200 word essays that push the boundaries of environmental history. Space expansionists argue that outer space … More THE EXTRA-PLANETARY MINE: SPACE MINING AS CONTINUITY

Visions of Sustainability: Global Environment Special Issue

February 13, 2025

In this blog, Laura Meneghello introduces the latest, fully Open Access, issue of Global Environment, which she guest-edited – a Special Issue on ‘Visions of Sustainability’. Visions of sustainability have substantially shaped relations between humans and the environment. Besides being a reaction to economic issues and environmental problems, they were also linked with ideas of … More Visions of Sustainability: Global Environment Special Issue

Enough is Enough: A View from Tonga on Biodiversity

February 3, 2025

In this blog Tom Greaves, Editor of Environmental Values introduces a discourse on sustainability delivered by Elisiva Sunia at COP16 in Colombia. The following discourse was delivered by Elisiva Sunia at the 16th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP 16) in Cali, Colombia, October–November 2024. Elisiva attended the … More Enough is Enough: A View from Tonga on Biodiversity