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EHN showcases the environment-related work + expertise of grad students and ECRs who identify as women, trans and/or nonbinary people #EnvHist #EnvHum 🌱🌍
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Looking for a seasonal or festive read? Check out Roisin Gilloch Boyle’s latest for EHN, on snow globes and the Anthropocene #envhist #envhum envhistnow.com/2025/12/24/o...
On Snow Globes
Snow 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?
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December 25, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Looking for a seasonal or festive read? Check out Roisin Gilloch Boyle’s latest for EHN, on snow globes and the Anthropocene #envhist #envhum envhistnow.com/2025/12/24/o...
On Snow Globes
Snow 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?
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December 25, 2025 at 1:23 PM
We're delighted to share a new post today from Lamlela Plaatjie, on land and water use, Indigenous knowledge, and decolonial praxis #envhist #envhum envhistnow.com/2025/12/10/p...
Primordial Waters: Being and Doing the Urban Indigenous
Guided 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 Sou…
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December 19, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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We're thrilled to share a breathtaking new essay today from @critical-lycan.bsky.social on multispecies sanctuary, queerness, and wolfdogs #envhist #envhum
Queering Sanctuary and Un/Becoming with Wolf/Dogs
If there is anything to be salvaged from the fraught concept of “wildness,” it is in the wily tenacity and audacious hopefulness of these queer taxonomic renegades.
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December 2, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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Don't miss the chance to submit to Germinate!
The winter deadline for our peer reviewed section is December 31st. Submissions are welcome between 1,200 and 2,000 words that connect the environmental present to its past.

We're excited to read your work!

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December 10, 2025 at 2:40 PM
We're thrilled to share a breathtaking new essay today from @critical-lycan.bsky.social on multispecies sanctuary, queerness, and wolfdogs #envhist #envhum
Queering Sanctuary and Un/Becoming with Wolf/Dogs
If there is anything to be salvaged from the fraught concept of “wildness,” it is in the wily tenacity and audacious hopefulness of these queer taxonomic renegades.
envhistnow.com
December 2, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Today we're spotlighting friend of EHN, @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social, who has helped keep us sustainable during our fundraising drive this year #envhist #envhum
November 20, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Another round of gratitude today for Dr. Robin Hartanto Honggare for supporting EHN and keeping us sustainable! Chip in at ko-fi.com/envhistnow #envhist #envhum
November 5, 2025 at 7:51 PM
This Monday, we want to thank Dr. Tina Adcock for her ongoing support of EHN! Join Dr. Adcock and many others in keeping us going ko-fi.com/envhistnow #envhist #envhum
October 27, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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Huge thanks to @carolineabbott.bsky.social for her contribution to keeping EHN sustainable! Donate at ko-fi.com/envhistnow for a chance to be featured and keep our independent platform going! #envhist #envhum
October 16, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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Can you keep us sustainable? EHN is volunteer-run, but we need to cover our costs for hosting the website. If you value what we do, chip in $6 or whatever you can below ko-fi.com/envhistnow
September 17, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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Check out my new piece for Environmental History Now!
October 9, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Big thanks today to Dr. Andrew Watson for his generosity in supporting EHN! Head over to our Ko-Fi page (link in bio) to support us in our fundraising drive!

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September 30, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Today's thanks go to @kelsass.bsky.social
for his generosity in supporting EHN. Thanks for all you do, Dr. Elsass!
If you want to join in keeping EHN sustainable, head over to ko-fi.com/envhistnow #envhist #envhum
September 24, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Our fundraising drive continues this week with a round of thank-yous to folks helping to keep the lights on at EHN! First up, huge gratitude to Dr. Nancy Jacobs for her support. Donate for a chance to be spotlighted on our page! ko-fi.com/envhistnow
September 22, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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Today on EHN for Anniversary Week, we're thrilled to share work by @valeriazambianchi.bsky.social and Ana Caetano Buchadas, "Scaling the Ivory Tower: The Neoliberalization of Academia" envhistnow.com/2025/09/18/s... #envhist #envhum We love these coauthored collaborations on our site!
Scaling the Ivory Tower: The Neoliberalization of Academia
Wondering about the unexpected consequences of the neoliberal turn of universities, we reflect on how to challenge the neoliberal model of academia in a way that keeps the academic door open to peo…
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September 18, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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Today to celebrate anniversary week, we're thrilled to share a crosspost with our friends at @nichecanada.bsky.social: @micaamy.bsky.social's incredible comic for fire season #envhist #envhum
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Living with Smoke: A Comic for the Fire Season
This essay was originally published in June 2024 in NiCHE: Network in Canadian History & Environment. Each year, British Columbia’s (BC) wildfire seasons force us to reckon with two stories abo…
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September 17, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Did you miss our new book review from yesterday? "Opening each chapter with personal narratives and imagery grounds the volume in the present and reminds readers that ways of knowing are actively unfolding as historical layers meet contemporary Indigenous perspectives.” @katieionecraney.bsky.social
September 17, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Can you keep us sustainable? EHN is volunteer-run, but we need to cover our costs for hosting the website. If you value what we do, chip in $6 or whatever you can below ko-fi.com/envhistnow
September 17, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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Delighted that this work continues to find new audiences, and (although purely coincidental) feels very appropriate coming out on the last day of my last fire season deployment. Thank you for hosting me, and for the work of your wonderful editorial team @envhistnow.bsky.social !
September 17, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Today to celebrate anniversary week, we're thrilled to share a crosspost with our friends at @nichecanada.bsky.social: @micaamy.bsky.social's incredible comic for fire season #envhist #envhum
envhistnow.com/2025/09/17/l...
Living with Smoke: A Comic for the Fire Season
This essay was originally published in June 2024 in NiCHE: Network in Canadian History & Environment. Each year, British Columbia’s (BC) wildfire seasons force us to reckon with two stories abo…
envhistnow.com
September 17, 2025 at 3:02 PM