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, ...

Introduction. A new environmental history / Andrew C. Isenberg -- Part I. Dynamic environments and cultures -- 1. Beyond weather: the culture and politics of climate history / Mark Carey -- 2. Animals ...

Introduction: No more the backward region : Southern environmental history comes of age / Paul S. Sutter -- Animals into the wilderness : the development of livestock husbandry in the ...

Environmental history helps experts analyze the present climate crisis in the context of the past. Decisions that brought us to this moment—from converting forests to farmland centuries ago to the ...

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 book called The Burning Earth: A History takes on a massive question: How did we get here? “Here” being this point in environmental history and decades deep into the climate crisis. Over the ...

Environmental history investigates the evolving interplay between human societies and their natural surroundings through time. This interdisciplinary field bridges archaeology, palaeoclimatology, ...

New programs for the new season; lectures, tours and classes in September Lisa K. Friedman Explore how humans shaped our ancient homeland with Sara Dant’s “An Environmental History of the American ...

DULUTH — George Vrtis and Christopher W. Wells are the editors of a new book about the environmental history of Minnesota. If you don't run out and buy a copy, they understand. A tent nestled in pines ...

This story was originally published by The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. As the director of the National Security Archive’s ...

The field of environmental studies examines the complex relationships between humans and the natural world. Like environmental science, students of environmental studies learn about ecology, biology, ...