Introduction. A new environmental history / Andrew C. Isenberg -- Part I. Dynamic environments and cultures -- 1. Beyond weather: the culture and politics of climate history / Mark Carey -- 2. Animals ...

Recent and major shifts in international environmental policies and programs have precedent in history, but the scale and urgency of their potential impacts present a planetary risk that’s new, ...

Environmental history helps experts analyze the present climate crisis in the context of the past. Decisions that brought us to this moment—from converting forests to farmland centuries ago to the ...

Introduction: No more the backward region : Southern environmental history comes of age / Paul S. Sutter -- Animals into the wilderness : the development of livestock husbandry in the ...

SETI Institute communications specialist Beth Johnson welcomed Professor Dagomar Degroot, environmental historian at Georgetown University, for a discussion on his new book Ripples on the Cosmic Ocean ...

Project Education: Edutopia, a partnership between WRAL-TV and the George Lucas Educational Foundation, shows how computer labs are helping students document the environment and history. Project ...

Cambria Iron Company, Gautier Works, Johnstown, Pennsylvania, ca. 1968. A new book looks at how Pennsylvanians have interacted with the environment from pre-colonial days to now. Its author is Allen ...

The field of environmental studies examines the complex relationships between humans and the natural world. Like environmental science, students of environmental studies learn about ecology, biology, ...

A movement taking root in communities along the Mississippi River is raising complicated questions over Black history and how it should be preserved, marking a new chapter in the fight between ...

This story was originally published by The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. As the director of the National Security Archive’s ...