Reading Time: 4 minutesPicture a Saturday in February, a crisp walk for two on a Cape Cod salt marsh. Each step meant testing the ground in front of us, given the recent snowfall and thawing earth.
Environmental History Now.
A Platform on Representation, Engagement, and Community
What Goes (Un)told: The (Hi)stories of the Brazil Nut in the Biodiversity Heritage Library
Reading Time: 7 minutesIn this short piece, I share my work through the example of Bertholletia excelsa, commonly known as the Brazil nut.
Nuclear Power in Times of Climate Change and the Water Risks Around It
Reading Time: 10 minutesWhen I decided to write my PhD thesis on the history of the nuclear Rhine in the summer of 2018, the front pages of the newspapers were dominated by news of the record summer and that several nuclear power plants on the Rhine had to be shut down.
Domestic Cohabitors: Felinely Reconsiderations of the ‘Pet’
Reading Time: 6 minutesThe roles into which humans have cast animals are innumerable. From ancient creation myths to premodern folktales of animal-wives and animal-husbands, to Disney’s anthropomorphised mascots, human culture around the globe is inextricable from the animal.
The Environmental History of Rivers and International Politics
Reading Time: 6 minutesIt has become quite a cliché to observe that rivers are important to the wellbeing of human societies around the world, but what exactly is this importance?