It was our pleasure again to sponsor the Poster Prize at the ESEH conference in Uppsala last week. The worthy winners were Andrei Vinogradov and Alexandra Raeva with their poster ‘Melting Mountains’. The poster was both graphically effective, indeed beautiful, and presented information succinctly and in a way that created an overall sense of design: … More ESEH / WHITE HORSE PRESS POSTER PRIZE – UPPSALA 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
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
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
In this blog Thomas Storey develops the ideas on the entanglement of technology and ecology in his recently published article in Plant Perspectives, ‘Media Ecologies and Transcendent Technology in Richard Powers’s “The Overstory”’ (December 2024). Richard Powers’s 2018 novel The Overstory is regarded as one of the central texts of contemporary ‘eco-lit’, a genre that addresses our … More The Overstory: An Ecomodernist Fable?
This blog reproduces the editorial by editors Franz Mauelshagen, Nicola Di Cosmo and Eleonora Rohland of the first volume of the peer reviewed Open Access journal Climates and Cultures in History, which was finalised in December 2024. It sets out the vision of the journal and invites new submissions (via our online system). It is … More Climates and cultures in History – Volume 1 Editorial
In today’s blog, Emma Moesswilde takes her recently published article in Environment and History, Practising Cold Weather: English Agricultural Discourse and Memory, 1739–1800 (online first, September 2024) as a jumping off point to discuss memory and forgetting of extreme change, and the opportunity to become a more empathetic historian. Historians who scour the past to … More On Remembering Resilience: Climate Change, Agriculture, and Covid-19 in 1740 and 2021
In this blog, originally published as a ‘Snapshot’ in Environment and History, Rebecca Duncan, Eleonor Marcussen, Mike Classon Frangos and Emily Hanscam critically interrogate the semantics and usefulness of the concept climate ’emergency’. The sense of emergency is palpable and real. But instead of naming this moment a ‘state of exception’, we should see it … More THE EMERGENCY HAS ALREADY HAPPENED
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