I think it’s fair to say that no field of history has grown more swiftly—in quantity or sophistication—in the 21st century than environmental history. The reason is, I suspect, self-evident: it’s in ...

Part 1. The natures of Indian America before Columbus. The pristine myth: the landscape of the Americas in 1492 / William M. Denevan. Documents -- Part 2. The other invaders: deadly diseases and ...

Recent and major shifts in international environmental policies and programs have precedent in history, but the scale and urgency of their potential impacts present a planetary risk that’s new, ...

BBC quotes Adam Rome in an article explaining how the largest environmental movement in history was born and how this day has changed since the first Earth Day. “The first Earth Day was unrepeatable.

Museum collections are key to universities' missions to provide education, research, public service and economic development to the state, nationally, and internationally. Jake Lewis, an entomologist ...

A new book called The Burning Earth: A History takes on a massive question: How did we get here? “Here” being this point in environmental history and decades deep into the climate crisis. Over the ...

A new article discusses vital methodological issues for humanities-based historical inquiry and argues that the challenges of the Anthropocene demand interdisciplinary research informed by a variety ...

To the environmental organizations leading the opposition: If you force Sable offshore and tankers return, history will judge ...

Here we are, midway through Black History Month, and we need to have Black History Month. For a very long time, our history has been explained from an exclusive point of view. As this world becomes ...

The field of environmental studies examines the complex relationships between humans and the natural world. Like environmental science, students of environmental studies learn about ecology, biology, ...

Opposition leaders say there is no reason for Premier Tim Houston and members of his cabinet to delay acknowledging the need ...

After nearly two years of negotiations and stalemates, the Senate passed pivotal climate and energy legislation. This is Overnight Energy & Environment, your source for the latest news focused on ...