Researchers warn that foreign actors are meddling in the Alberta separatist movement in ways that threaten Canada’s "democratic integrity".

Great white sharks were first found dead – mutilated with their livers removed – off the coast of South Africa. Now, these tactics are seen around the world.

This article examines a case brought before the Belfast Spring Assizes in 1886 and again in 1887, in which three coastal smallholders from Ballycastle, County Antrim, were prosecuted for theft of seaweed from shores claimed by a local landlord. Drawing ...

Knowledge uprooted: Transimperial forestry and the hiring of foreign experts in the Dutch East Indies, 1920s–1930s

New analysis refutes James Watson’s claim he was first to recognize significance of famed photograph 51

Photographer Martin Gregus challenges common perceptions of the Arctic, capturing summer wildlife to reconnect people with nature and inspire conservation.

York University in Toronto will host the 2030 Fifth World Congress of Environmental History, marking its North American debut.

Although Land and environment are central to residential and day school histories, they remain underexamined in environmental history.

Vacancies for PhD Researcher positions in the area of quantitative, historical and archaeological urban research

An internal memo reinterprets the law so that only the intentional killing of animals, not collateral harm, is illegal.

Advances in autonomous agents and bitter rivalry between Anthropic and OpenAI have pushed once-fringe fears into the mainstream

Scientific Reports - Rewilding the upper Klamath River Basin: rapid recolonization of Chinook salmon following the world’s largest dam removal

Debate over turning public national park land into private profit dates back more than a century.

Full open-access volume Vajont: The Political Ecology of an Unnatural Disaster (2026) by Marco Armiero.

CALL FOR PAPERS Animal Histories: A Decade with Animals Animal History Group International Conference Online, Friday 11th December 2026 AHG26 The Animal History Group is an international network fo…

Accès libre // par Arthur Hunaut (août 2026)

The colloquium aims to advance the environmental history of Ukraine as a research field and teaching area by addressing related challenges, identifying opportunities, and planning future directions.

The Great Acceleration began well before 1950, driven by late-19th-century global agricultural expansion, indigenous dispossession, and massive land-use carbon emissions.

Researchers have described a new-to-science species of walking shark, which lives in the remote, shallow waters off southeastern Papua New Guinea. The newly named Dudgeon’s walking shark…

The first alleged goblin shark documented in the Mediterranean Sea has drawn suspicion from marine biologists and others.

The Department of Literature, History of Ideas, and Religion is one of the six departments

Environmental disaster dystopias can inspire optimistic, equal societies that manage resources through memory, ritual, and a commitment to justice.

In former Northern Rhodesia, the case of the Tsetse fly shows how knowledge has been co-created by humans and nonhumans.

The Biodiversity Heritage Library is an invaluable online archive of historic texts on species living and lost supplied by the world’s leading museums and universities. Now its future is in doubt

A personal history of plastics, written by a plastic-maker’s daughter turned environmental sociologist who, for the past decade, has searched for t...

Whale sharks gather each year at Ningaloo Reef, their seasonal appearances drawing intensive human attention, reminding us that the story of the ocean is also our own story.

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A Cold Colonialism - Modern Exploration and the Canadian North; A Cold Colonialism reframes exploration as a modern enterprise – one through which southern Canadians and Americans sought to exert cont...