What is Environmental History?
In this short video, Jan Oosthoek presents the field of environmental history.
In this short video, Jan Oosthoek presents the field of environmental history.
In this episode from the New Books Network podcast, Heather Davis is interviewed on his recent book, Plastic Matter.
This article investigates the pollution of the Ergene River as an outcome of the hegemonic cosmology in Turkey.
This article follows “the Danish Society for a Living Sea” and their engagement with ghost nets and “local haunting dynamics.”
The residents near Wolsong Nuclear Power Plants at Gyeongju, South Korea, protest to claim their rights to live with dignity.
Underground mining on South Africa’s Rand transformed the air.
In this article, historian Kate Brown considers the connections between plants, biospheres, and the politics of breathing. “What can the history of controlled environments tell us,” she asks, “about how we understand the planet today?”
In this episode from the New Books Network podcast, Simone Müller is interviewed on her recent book, The Toxic Ship: The Voyage of the Khian Sea and the Global Waste Trade.
Examining a case of electric power transmission in California in the early twentieth century, Etienne Benson reveals how industrial infrastructures are embedded in complex environments animated by unexpected agencies often invisible to their users.
A 2023 update on the planetary boundaries framework.