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As the millennium approaches it seems that environmental historians are increasingly drawn to the task of writing world history…

This article assesses the data on snow and snow-cover contained in the Diarium or diary of Martinus Crusius (1526–1607), one of the 16th century’s German humanists. This data is compared with the relevant 20th century meteorological data.

This issue of Environment and History completes a third year of the new journal, and presents a useful opportunity for reflection about the state of the discipline.

The science of palynology has proved to be a good tool to reconstruct the past, to build up archaeological scenarios and to record climatic changes during the Holocene period. However, the terms employed to denote climate, like arid and humid, are often used without proper definitions, ignoring intricacies of climate…

Minstrels (or waits) in the 15th century Port of Sandwich walked the streets at night and woke mariners with information about wind directions…

An early example of French historian Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie’s work on the impact of climate change on human history.