Katja Bruisch
@kbruisch.bsky.social
Environmental historian, Trinity College Dublin. Author of "Burning Swamps: Peat and the Forgotten Margins of Russia's Fossil Economy" (CUP 2025) & "Als das Dorf noch Zukunft war: Agrarismus und Expertise zwischen Zarenreich und Sowjetunion" (Böhlau 2014).
Happy #WorldPeatlandsDay! Let's talk more about peatlands as places of human history. This is Radovitsky Mokh, a Soviet peat extraction site in central Russia. The images show the geometry of drainage canals & extraction fields and the partial return of water after the end of extraction #envhist
June 2, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Happy #WorldPeatlandsDay! Let's talk more about peatlands as places of human history. This is Radovitsky Mokh, a Soviet peat extraction site in central Russia. The images show the geometry of drainage canals & extraction fields and the partial return of water after the end of extraction #envhist