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EHN is proud to celebrate eight years of publishing. To finish off this year’s anniversary week, the core editorial team selected three essays that spoke to them personally.

“Silent Springs, Windswept Seas: Rachel Carson’s Environmental Vision,” an exhibit curated by Carla Baricz and James Kessenides, is on display on the second floor of Yale University’s Beinecke Library...

Walking through Finnskogen reveals how fire, Forest Finn heritage, hidden traces and ecological restoration reshape our understanding of place.

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The edited volume explores how the Pacific environment influences and disrupts US military operations. Reviewed by Savannah Scott.

Saline lakes are declining around the world. The Great Salt Lake and its surrounding wetlands are a keystone ecosystem.

What can we learn from the attempt to build an offshore nuclear power plant?

Barbara Martinović reviews Methods for Ecocritical Art History with a sharp and critical eye. The volume has 23 essays organized into six thematic sections and offers urgently needed methods for ecocr...

Authors Alejandro E. Camacho and Brigham Daniels intervene in debates on contemporary environmental legal scholarship by advancing the centrality of law both as a driver of environmental degradation a...

How are the same media tactics which demonize possums now being applied to feral cats, targeted by Predator Free 2050 as the "stone-cold killers"?

Wildfire seasons should not be framed as isolated spectacles. Thinking otherwise provides a basis for more coordinated disaster response and long-term adaptation strategies that address inequality rat...

Raechel Lutz shares some of what she knows - hoping more historians will take up this useful and fulfilling work.

Arctic oil and gas projects are not quick fixes to Europe’s current energy challenges. Arctic oil is justified through the language of urgency and energy security, yet it cannot meaningfully address E...

An essay on invasive Bradford pear trees in Massachusetts, weaving together ecological regulation, Boston’s pear history, racialized school busing, family memory, and the politics of belonging in chan...

A lyrical nonfiction essay about searching for endangered Black-footed ferrets in Arizona’s Aubrey Valley, extinction, conservation, ecological loss, and the haunting presence of absence in the Anthro...

new series + call for new editors

If you’ve followed Australian news over the past two months, the sense of panic has been all-pervasive. Headlines about the fuel crisis blast from screen and podcasts tracking fuel supplies update …

The Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development activated a plan to curb the spread of the hippopotamus (Hippopotamus amphibius) in Colombia. These are descendants of the animals that Pablo…

In recent months, I have noticed a spate of ‘positive’ headlines popping up in my news feeds and on social media about the health and well-being of polar bears. Whilst some might call me a cyn…

Posts about Making Sense of… written by Rae Ferner-Rose and María del Pilar Peralta Ardila

A community-led green space in Colorado reveals the juxtaposition of promises and tensions that co-exist in efforts to remediate land scarred by industry, sparking questions for environmental resea…

We often hear about the Anthropocene, but what if it’s not the only way to understand our impact on Earth? Ideas like the noosphere and technosphere offer striking new ways to see humanity’s role o…

In Aotearoa New Zealand, wallabies are invasive pests. In a world of “multispecies” relationship, what does it mean to be an invader? What forms of care, cruelty, and gendered violence emerge in th…

It is really hard to focus on the work in front of you when your field is burning around you.

Book review of Richard O. Prum’s book Performance all the Way Down, published by University of Chicago Press in 2023.

Walking through Ashio’s scarred mountains (Japan) and cutting grass along the Watarase River, fieldwork turns out to be less about gathering data and more about learning to sense how toxicity and c…

posts this month + a note from our new eic

When the flyers, posters, and participants are lost or forgotten, so too is our understanding about how our shared environmental history has been shaped by activism.

The Northern Environmental History Network is thrilled to welcome Dr Alfie Howard to present on Snake Words in Estonia!

Canada’s recent embrace of Indigenous rights looks transformative on paper, but in the Alberta oil sands, a different story unfolds.

Snow globes bear witness to their times and are the perfect curio for the Anthropocene. What would our snow globe of the Anthropocene be made of?

Snow globes bear witness to their times and are the perfect curio for the Anthropocene. What would our snow globe of the Anthropocene be made of?

Guided by an ancestral call to recover the Primordial Water in Cape Town, this essay reflects on how human–nature connections continue to adapt, resist, and reimagine themselves in contemporary Sou…

If there is anything to be salvaged from the fraught concept of “wildness,” it is in the wily tenacity and audacious hopefulness of these queer taxonomic renegades.

If there is anything to be salvaged from the fraught concept of “wildness,” it is in the wily tenacity and audacious hopefulness of these queer taxonomic renegades.

It is a turbulent time to be an international scholar in the United States: So before you embark on your next trip to the U.S., let’s make sure you are ready for take-off.