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Mark Stoll

@markstoll.bsky.social
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Environmental historian, author of Profit: An Environmental History (2023) and Inherit the Holy Mountain: Religion and the Rise of American Environmentalism (2015). www.markstoll.net Professor at @texastechuniv.bsky.social

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The White Horse Press @whitehorsepress.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
‘Conflicts between Fish and Oil in the Gulf of Guinea, Ghana: Thinking beyond the Resource Curse’ by Bernard Owusu, #openaccess here: www.doi.org/10.3828/whpg... #envhist #ghana #fisheries
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The White Horse Press @whitehorsepress.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
‘The Contributions of Environmental History in Times of Social-Ecological Crisis: Insights from the Forest’ by Simone Gingrich, #openaccess here: www.doi.org/10.3828/whpg... #envhist
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Tony Nuspl @tonynuspl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"Many people do not realise how fast glaciers are retreating, or that just one generation ago some now-barren sites used to sit beneath hundreds of metres of ice." #tippingpoint #envhist #ClimateEmergency
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‘Explosion of melt rates’: 20% of Swiss glaciers lost in five years
Alpine regions in Europe experiencing extreme glacier collapse due to heat-trapping effects of fossil fuel pollution
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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Today NiCHE New Scholars committee member, @hopelatta.bsky.social, speaks with Historian @kellyblack.ca about The Great Vancouver Island Land Grab project and travelling exhibit - @vilocalhistory.bsky.social niche-canada.org/2026/10/02/t... #envhist #cdnhist #colonialism
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The Great Vancouver Island Land Grab: Kelly Black on How a 19th-Century Grant Shapes the Present
Historian Kelly Black discusses the E&N Railway land grant’s historical dispossession of Indigenous lands and its ongoing socio-environmental impacts.
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Linda Andersson Burnett @lindaaburnett.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
There is still time to register for @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social seminar "Empires of Extinction in the Anthropocene" on Tuesday, 15-16 CET (abstract below). For Zoom link please email: instructingnaturalhistory@uu.se #skystorians #histsci #envhist
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Katja Bruisch @kbruisch.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
CfP for the workshop "Science in the Field: People, Practices and Environments in the Russian Empire and Soviet Union" organized by Christine Bichsel, Katja Doose, Nargiza Kenzhaeva & Oybek Makhmudov (Fribourg, June 2027) #envhist 👇 networks.h-net.org/group/announ...
Screenshot of a call for papers for the workshop "Science in the Field: People, Practices and Environments in the Russian Empire and Soviet Union" (Fribourg, 14-15 June 2027)
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Claire Campbell @clairecampbell.bsky.social · 15h
Apparently woods were tidier in the nineteenth century? Forrest, "Exact Resemblance of the Foliage of the Wood in Canada in October-November" (1823) v. Carmichael, "Autumn" (1921) @gallery.ca #cdnhist #envhist tinyurl.com/3w3jvpp6 & tinyurl.com/mt3nt8px
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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
You're gonna need a bigger chart
Chart showing the daily sea surface temperature for the Nino region of the Pacific, with a red line for 2026 shooting off above every other year in record-setting territory, with the latest spot right at the top of the chart
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Mark Stoll @markstoll.bsky.social · 10h
The object is not to ignore it. The point is to prevent anyone from doing anything about it (which might affect profits of the all-powerful oil-and-gas industry).
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Clayton Tucker @claytontuckertx.com · 02/10/2026
🚨 BREAKING NEWS: A federal judge just HALTED the destruction of Big Bend. This is a massive victory for the landowners, local communities, and everyday Texans who stood up to protect one of our state's greatest treasures. The fight isn't over, but today, the people won.
Graphic from the Center for Biological Diversity over a scenic view of Big Bend. Large text reads, “MASSIVE WIN FOR BIG BEND.” Below, it says a federal judge has frozen all destruction throughout the Big Bend region until the project’s legality can be determined in court. The graphic adds that the Center will continue fighting to save Big Bend and asks supporters to join them.
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Was talking with somebody last night about whether today's plutocrats were objectively "worse" than original Gilded Age. Them: "Well, what are your examples?" Me: "Big three: Musk, Bezos, Zuckerberg. "Then Ellisons, Kochs, Singer, Schwarzman. Princelings like Lutnick, Uihlein. No contest."
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Adam McKay @ghostpanther.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
It’s officially time to freak out.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 22h
I don’t think everyone realizes how bad things are for US science: For the fiscal year that just ended, the Trump regime withheld $1.4 billion from the National Science Foundation’s research budget, which is about 1/5 of its primary research budget.
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National Science Foundation Diverted $1.4 Billion in Science Funds Mandated by Congress (Gift Article)
The move, affecting about one-fifth of the National Science Foundation’s primary research budget, is the latest sign of how the White House is asserting more control over grants.
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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 14h
Antarctic sea-ice update... Not only is Antarctic sea-ice extent at a record daily low, extent just passed 4 standard deviations below the 1991-2020 mean. Can extent get back below 6 standard deviations, like we saw in 2023? Stay tuned!
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Canuckstan 🇨🇦 @jonchevreau.bsky.social · 14h
#via Canadian cartoonist Dave Whamond #CanadaSky #USpol
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DerKlimablog.de 🏳️‍🌈 @derklimablog.bsky.social · 11h
Wir können diese Regierung nicht weitere drei Jahre mit der Rückabwicklung der Erneuerbaren und bewusst gebrochenem Klimagesetz durchkommen lassen. Wir haben die Zeit nicht mehr. Wir sitzen alle zusammen in diesem Boot.
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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 16h
Trump wants to raise the Canadian flag in the Swiss alps? 🙄
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 14h
Please please please stop making a big deal out of the G7 reserves release. Yes, it’s 100 million barrels over 4 months. We - the planet - use 100 million barrels of crude every…single…day. Almost literally a drop in the bucket.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This serves as advertisement for Alex Gibney’s documentary, Musk, opening October 9. Pass it on.
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The Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for Alex Gibney’s ‘Musk’ (Exclusive)
YouTube, TikTok and Meta have all turned down the trailer for the Oct. 9 doc, citing “political” content. X won't even take Bleecker Street's calls. The distributor is appealing.
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Kye @kyebarker.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Mephistopheles to Doctor Faust:
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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Call for Environmental History Proposals at the Canadian Historical Association Meeting in Winnipeg NiCHE would like to organize a series of linked panels on environmental history at CHA 2027. niche-canada.org/2026/09/25/c... #envhist #cdnhist @cndhistassoc.bsky.social
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Call for Environmental History Proposals at the Canadian Historical Association Meeting in Winnipeg
Call for papers: Submit environmental history paper and panel proposals for CHA 2027 in Winnipeg by October 16. Sponsored panel opportunities with NiCHE.
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Patrick Canning 🇨🇦 @patrickcanning.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A war which we are losing.
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Randall Stephens @randalljstephens.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Bill Mauldin's editorial cartoon commenting on the ongoing Watergate crisis and following the resignation of Nixon's VP Spiro T. Agnew, October 1973.
Cartoon shows the eagle symbol of the US with a cloud over it and hiding its eyes with its wing.
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Randall Stephens @randalljstephens.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"Prepare to meet thy oil shortage." Jim Berry, October 1973.
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Prof Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Antarctic sea ice just hit its 3rd-lowest winter max in the 48-yr satellite record: 17.59 M km² on 14 Sept. That’s not a record...but its striking when you realise: 👉 5 lowest Julys: all since 2022 👉 4 lowest Aug: all since 2023 👉 2023 record-low winter maximum www.carbonbrief.org/concerning-l...
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Randall Stephens @randalljstephens.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Gene Basset on the Nixon administration's battle to keep the White House tapes from being released in the face of political, legal, and public pressures, October 1973.
Cartoon depicts District Court Judge John Sirica grabbing Nixon by the tie and swinging his gavel at him as Nixon holds a tape reel and says, "Here, if they mean that much to you."
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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Bison have returned to Mexico’s Chihuahuan Desert. 44 bison were released at Coahuila’s El Santuario reserve late last year, followed by 29 more into Sonora’s Cuenca Los Ojos region in February 2026, where the herd produced 10 calves within months. Yucatán Magazine buff.ly/0SEucl3 #ShareGoodNewsToo
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The Return of the Bison to Mexico's Chihuahua Desert
A species lost for over a century is once again shaping northern Mexico's landscape.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 26/09/2026
‘Traffic is going to get a lot worse’: San Francisco Bay Area faces potential death spiral of transit system
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‘Traffic is going to get a lot worse’: San Francisco Bay Area faces potential death spiral of transit system
A marvel of engineering and a model of sustainability, Bart has been financially distressed since the Covid pandemic
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Mark Stoll @markstoll.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
More inconvenient truths from the man who used to be the next president of the United States. @sciam.bsky.social #climatechange #globalwarming #environment #envhist www.scientificamerican.com/article/2026...
scientificamerican.com
2026 could be the turning point on climate action, Al Gore says
The former vice president thinks this year is when we’ll get serious about climate change
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Daniella M. @farsouthhistory.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Check out Stephen Neufeld's review of Richard W. Burkhardt Jr.'s "The Leopard in the Garden: Animal and Human Lives in Paris at the First Public Zoo of the Modern Era," published in 2026 by @uchicagopress.bsky.social; review available @hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhist www.h-net.org/reviews/show...
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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"Unlike infectious diseases like smallpox and cholera, malaria was firmly place-based, meaning that local and environmental histories are best suited to telling its history–if we can reconstruct past environments." - @gabtm.bsky.social niche-canada.org/2024/05/29/t... #envhist #histmed #cdnhist
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Tropical Disease in Untropical Places: Thinking of Malaria in Canada
The processes designed to “soften” Upper Canada’s disease landscape—such as agriculture and settlement—were also tools of settler colonialism.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Read this: is is from the chair of outside advisors of the Iowa civics center imposed on campus. He thinks he is describing current faculty but he is perfectly describing himself and his fellow travelers
"I think there's a fundamental tension," Lowery told Inside Higher Ed. "We've had a sort of ideological takeover of the universities where you have ideological administrators hiring ideological faculty and they will do everything they can to prevent other ideas from being represented on campus."
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Pr Carlos Moreno - IAE Paris1 Sorbonne University @carlosmorenofr.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
At 555 Hudson Street, the rowhouse where Jane Jacobs lived from 1947 to 1968, I stood in front of the door behind which she wrote The Death and Life of Great American Cities.
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SEJ — Society of Environmental Journalists @sejorg.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
What’s new in SEJournal? ⚡🌱 Explore what’s driving higher electricity bills and why the Farm Bill matters for environmental journalists. Read more at SEJ.org/SEJournal. #EnvironmentalJournalism #Energy #FarmBill
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 24/09/2026
“More than half of American college students, in twenty-three states, are currently attending a school that has been forced to ban certain topics from the classroom, eliminate academic departments, or drastically weaken tenure protections for professors.”
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Mark Stoll @markstoll.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Congratulations, Verena!
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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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Center for Biological Diversity @biologicaldiversity.org · 24/09/2026
We've heard different things about what #SpaceX wants to do with the land, from additional manufacturing areas to warehouses to worker housing. The way that they've been treating the land out there already is telling. They pave over everything. They turn it into an industrial manufacturing zone.
time.com
Everything You Need to Know About SpaceX's Wildlife Refuge Land Swap with the Trump Administration
More than 700 acres of Texas wilderness may soon be open to development.
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Jascha Schmitz @jaschaschmitz.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Das #MPI-GEA sucht neue Doktrorand*innen im Bereich Past Urban Studies! www.mpg.de/26919453/phd... Falls Ihr Interesse an #Anthropozän - historischer Forschung habt, dann kann ich Euch das #MPI-GEA wärmstens empfehlen! Deadline: 31.10.2026 #DH #DigitalHistory #EnvHist
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PhD Researcher Positions (f/m/d) | Quantitative Past Urban Studies
Vacancies for PhD Researcher positions in the area of quantitative, historical and archaeological urban research
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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
"My initial project proposal, which examined relationships between women and animals, was too encyclopedic, too focused on cats and dogs and birds and finding as many examples of each kind of work as possible..." - Margaryta Golovchenko niche-canada.org/2024/11/22/t... #animalhistory #envhist
niche-canada.org
The Search for the Animal Corpus
Margaryta Golovchenko reflects on the challenges of tracing human-animal relationships in history, focusing on the tensions between named, intimate animal companions like those of Rosa Bonheur and unn...
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The White Horse Press @whitehorsepress.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
We've added a post to our blog, remembering John M. Mackenzie, who passed away last week. John was an early editor of 'Environment and History', whose important work paved the way for the journal's success since. The post is here: whitehorsepress.blog/2026/09/21/j... #envhist @eandhwhp.bsky.social
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Professor John M. Mackenzie (2 October 1943 – 18 September 2026)
John in 2022, © Nigel Dalziel. A note from Andrew Johnson, Partner, The White Horse Press. We are sad to report the death of Professor John M. MacKenzie on 18 September 2026. I first met John 35 ye…
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EcoHisMa @ecohisma.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"Insights into the social perception of the possible natural return of a fishers’ competitor, the endangered Mediterranean seal" #MonkSeal #Mediterranean #Envhist #MarineSciences amu.hal.science/hal-05505868...
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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"Sea and Steppe" by @ultradaphne.bsky.social is part of the series “Gender and Atlantic Ocean Environments,” co-edited with Written in the Waves journal, for their special issue Soil and Sea. niche-canada.org/2026/09/22/s... #envhist #envhum #migration
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Sea and Steppe
Many poets have compared kovyla, the native feather grass of the Ukrainian steppe, to sea waves. When I look at the ocean I crossed, I can remind myself of who I am and where I came from.
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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
#ElNino - as measured by ONI (Niño 3.4) - is now the hottest ever recorded, with months before it peaks - peak likely about 4C - prev record is 3C data via @zekehausfather.com 1/2 dashboard.theclimatebrink.com#enso
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Climate Dashboard
Daily-updated global temperature tracker: ERA5 daily data, multi-model ENSO forecasts, annual projections, and climate models vs. observations.
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Mona Bieling @monabie.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Please consider applying 👇🏼We'll discuss your work in progress in a friendly and constructive environment, invite an expert discussant to join the conversation, and help you make connections with peers in environmental history #envhist #envhum
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Elizabeth Kolbert @elizkolbert.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
These updates from the @nytimes "Climate Forward" event are so self-serving as to be almost funny.
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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"Our results demonstrate that #climate change is reshaping the ecologically suitable areas for these key pollinators and represents a pervasive pressure on European wildlife."
nature.com
Declines in European bumblebee habitat suitability attributable to climate change - Nature Climate Change
The authors consider factual and counterfactual scenarios to isolate the role of climate change in the decline of suitable habitats for European bumblebees (1901–2019). They show reductions of 5% on a...
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Gerard Fitzgerald @gfitz.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The climate fight has one great ally. You just can’t look at it directly | Bill McKibben
There is hope in solar power. As the UN meets, we are urging leaders to pursue a clear goal: clean energy for all by 2030
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Drew Landry @drewlandry.substack.com · 23/09/2026
Happy to help @edenshamy.bsky.social with her piece in the @texasobserver.org. “The growing controversy around money in politics, data centers, and Flock cameras can help Democrats get ‘a foot in the door’ with rural Texans.” www.texasobserver.org/west-texas-d...
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‘Up Against a 500-Pound Gorilla’: Can Dems Make Inroads in Deep-Red West Texas?
With a candidate on the ballot in every state and federal race, the minority party is trying hard to gain some ground in the GOP’s electoral firewall.
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Bo Jacobs @bojacobs.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Big problems with everyone getting rich off the #Nuclear Renaissance: “#Holtec Postponed Its IPO. Then a Problem at Its Nuclear Plant Became Public” D’oh! americanbuildout.com/holtec-postp...
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Holtec Postponed Its IPO. Then a Problem at Its Nuclear Plant Became Public.
Holtec postponed its proposed IPO. Four days later, it disclosed that a fuel assembly had tilted during loading at the Palisades reactor, pausing the work while it develops a retrieval plan that Holte...
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