Content Index

An account of how the 2024 World Congress of Environmental History developed from idea to reality, and of what this trajectory says about environmental historical scholarship today.

In 1908, Raymond Rallier du Baty and his crew struggled to reconcile their sympathy for elephant seals with their violence against them.

In this book, Marc Landry shows how dam-building in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries transformed the Alps into Europe’s battery.

In this book, Lida Maxwell shows how Silent Springs stands as a monument to a unique, loving relationship between Rachel Carson and Dorothy Freeman, and how such love underpins a new environmental politics.

Daniel Dumas interviews Elspeth Oppermann on handling heat in a changing climate, with a focus on how heat affects work environments.

When is it defensible to keep birds in confinement, and what do we owe those who escape?

The Azorean archipelago is a lesson not only in geography and geology but also in cooking stew.

The surprising career of the advertising slogan “everybody talks about the weather” is a story about political transformation.

Sevgi Mutlu Sirakova explores the microbial cultures of tarhana and the culinary heritage and human traditions they come with, from the Middle East to the Balkans.

Explore the Moon, the world, and the self in a lyrical essay with author Christopher Cokinos.