Reading Time: 6 minutesWe 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 on Earth.
Environmental History Now.
A Platform on Representation, Engagement, and Community
A future with non-kins: the rape of a wallaby
Reading Time: 12 minutesIn 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 the name of ecological protection?
This is Fine: Studying Intersectional US Environmental History While it Burns Around Us
Reading Time: 5 minutesIt is really hard to focus on the work in front of you when your field is burning around you.
Sex Is a History: A Review of Performance all the Way Down by Richard O. Prum
Reading Time: 5 minutesBook review of Richard O. Prum’s book Performance all the Way Down, published by University of Chicago Press in 2023.
Fieldwork In-between: Walking and Cutting Grass in Japan’s Post-Mining Landscape
Reading Time: 9 minutesWalking 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 care coexist.
Counting What counts: Preserving environmental activism history
Reading Time: 5 minutesWhen 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 Impact Assessment as Archive: Historical Approaches to Regulatory Documents from Alberta’s Oil Sands
Reading Time: 6 minutesCanada’s recent embrace of Indigenous rights looks transformative on paper, but in the Alberta oil sands, a different story unfolds.
Tidings for the New Year
Reading Time: 2 minutesSome news from the EHN team as we approach the New Year.
On Snow Globes
Reading Time: 5 minutesSnow 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?
Primordial Waters: Being and Doing the Urban Indigenous
Reading Time: 7 minutesGuided 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 South Africa.