Environmental history is an inter-disciplinary subject, meaning that historians, scientists and other scholars must look over the boundaries of their own subject he havoc caused by floods makes it ...

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, ...

The Trump administration has initiated an unprecedented multi-agency rollback of U.S. environmental protections while ...

“We’re really losing our history here; we’re losing our environmental history,” Santarsiero told the Bulletin last week. To some extent, government watchdogs, scientists, and climate and environmental ...

The scientific framework should be rooted in thermodynamics and ecological carrying capacity, the KSHEC vice-chairperson says ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The story goes like this: Rachel Carson’s eloquent 1962 book “Silent Spring,” about the effects of synthetic pesticides like DDT on songbirds, bees, wildlife and humans, launched the American ...

At first glance, the modern environmental movement and the far-right movement – including anti-immigrant and white supremacist groups – might appear to be on opposing sides of the political ideology ...