In Lessons for a Warming Planet: A Vital History of US Environmental Law, authors Alejandro E. Camacho and Brigham Daniels probe environmental legal history to understand the law’s troubled relationship to environmental degradation and protection, while uncovering the legal change that is needed to address the most pressing environmental challenges of our era, such as climate change.
McKittrick explores how seemingly peripheral, outlandish ideas become part of the mainstream popular and scientific imagination.
While the 2025 Los Angeles wildfires captured global attention, northern Mexico’s devastating wildfire season received far less attention. This piece is about what such contrast reveals and discusses how wildfire disasters are not only ecological events but also stories of inequality, visibility, and power.
This essay is my attempt to share some of what I know in the hopes that more historians will take up this useful and fulfilling work.
Arctic oil and gas projects, justified through the language of urgency and energy security, are not quick fixes to Europe’s current energy challenges.
The removal of the tree, its snapped branches swept up and away, made the feeling of broken lineage real.
This nonfiction piece was the inspiration for a journal article about writing amidst extinction for a forthcoming special issue of Cultural Geographies.
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 daily, while images of shuttered petrol stations and trucking companies facing financial ruin are unavoidable.
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 cynic, I couldn’t help but temper my optimism.
