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EHN Blog by Felice PhysiocJan 15, 20269:00 am

An aerial view over oil sands development around Fort McMurray, Alberta. The image shows defined perimeters of development circumscribing rigid shapes onto the landscape, including pit mines and tailings ponds, over what was not too many decades ago pristine muskegs.

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.

EHN Blog by Nina FosterDec 17, 20246:00 pm

An Earthwatch trip leader holds a captured bank vole while his colleague uses an instrument to measure the vole’s tail.

The case for weighing voles on your vacation

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EHN Anniversary Week by Araceli RamosSep 12, 20241:00 pm

The skeletons of a Tyrannosaurus rex and a triceratops featured in a dynamic exhibit at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County.

The Role of Natural History Museum Collections in Conservation Science and Communication

Reading Time: 5 minutesIn an era marked by a pressing global climate crisis and alarming rates of biodiversity loss, natural history museums stand out as beacons of hope in our collective struggle against environmental degradation.

Politics of Nature by Lucile TruffyJun 27, 20246:00 pm

The cover image is an excerpt from a press article entitled “Ecological disaster in the upper valley. The Aude river polluted by a violent poison” (“Catastrophe écologique en Haute-Vallée. L’Aude polluée par un poison violent [sic]”), published by the regional newspaper L'Indépendant on 18 September 1983, the day after the pollution. Beneath the headline are two photographs. On the left lies a dead trout, “fallen victim to human stupidity” as the caption states (“Une truite splendide victime de la bêtise des hommes”). On the right, there are the inhabitants of Quillan perched on the city's old bridge, gazing out over the river. The caption reads: “A destruction that rallied all the Quillan residents” (“Une destruction qui a mobilisé tous les habitants de Quillan”).

Death on the Aude: River Pollution, the French Formica Company, and Local Fishers in 1983

EHN Blog by Nicole HodgsonMay 23, 20246:00 pm

Scrub brush in front of mountain and blue sky with clouds.

Thriving in a world of plants: the possibilities of ecobiography

Reading Time: 7 minutesIn 1874 Sarah Brooks, with her mother and brother, walked nearly 700 kilometers out to the land of the Noongar people in the south-eastern extremities of the South-west Australian Floristic Region. It is still unclear how and why Sarah, an educated, accomplished, single woman, spent the last fifty-four years of her life out in this isolated place.