Climate change is not only a weather story. In the South Pacific, in Vanuatu, one of the most disaster-prone nations on Earth, it is also a culture story. Their culture will adapt, but the question is what will survive intact when climate pressure is changing the environment faster than generations can pass their knowledge on.
What can we learn from the attempt to build an offshore nuclear power plant?
Smith, Olga, and Andrew Patrizio, eds. Methods for Ecocritical Art History. Manchester University Press, 2026. The book cover shows weeds on a Paris street, a photograph by artist Jean-Luc Moulène, whose work is the subject […]
This essay was originally published by Emily Major in her research activism blog Framing Speciesism. Addendum to original article (trigger warning for graphic descriptions): This cross-posted article is timely as the North Canterbury Hunting Competition […]
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.