We've got a really fascinating seminar coming up in a couple of weeks (14/05, 14:00) from our own Jon Roberts from Extinction Studies DTP (University of Leeds) Leeds Environmental Humanities Research Group about hookworm in Cornish mines. We're looking forward to seeing you there. Register here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-tropical-d…

#MountStHelens | April 30, 1980

USGS geologist David Johnston descends into St. Helens' crater to sample ponded water for measuring SO2 levels. After a 1/2 hr., Johnston and Rick Hoblitt take off.

Less than an hour later, a 4.0 quake sends ice blocks tumbling into the crater.

1914 Burnt Country, Evening #tt1914

1916 View Over a Lake, Autumn #tt1916

If you are a historian interested in commenting on the outcome of this past week’s #PlasticsTreaty talks in Ottawa for our website, check out our guidelines and get in touch!

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#envhist #plastics #fossilfuels

#PlasticsTreaty talks have concluded. Despite a handful of countries taking a stand to keep ambitious proposals alive, most States accepted a compromise that played into the hands of petrostates & industry influence.
👀 Our full statement: bit.ly/3JLZdyR

Some fieldwork highlights from Granada, Isla de Gigantes Norte, Philippines from January 2024. A team led by Prof. Cynthia Neri Zayas with the researcher Brandon Pundamiera have studying the atob/atog stone #fishweirs & fishing communities’ heritage of Isla de Gigantes.1/5

Call for Papers - Feminist Digital Methods Book Chapters niche-canada.org/2024/04/30/cal… via @niche_canada

In my 4th-year US foreign relations course next year, I want to emphasize historiographical debate (to help show that history is not settled, subject to revision etc). What do you take to be some of the key disagreements in the field?

When it's all laid out, it's an incredible tribute to the herbarium and an impressive condemnation of Duke's shortsightedness. Kathleen Pryer

Really looking forward to joining Dr Olga Smith’s brilliant seminar series on art and ecology tomorrow in Newcastle!

The book of plastics is long and boring. No one can lift the damn thing. It’s full of charts and facts and figures, and instructions for dancing.

[It’s actually filled w/ lists of primary polymers & chemical additives.] #plasticstreaty #inc5

Plastics Dictionary, 1948

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If you're in Cambridge tomorrow and free at 5pm, come along to my talk on medieval & early modern coastal change, wetlands and monastic landscapes! 🌊

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Cambridge Medieval Durham History
Environment+Society HistoryLab Northern Environmental History Network

Call for Papers – Feminist Digital Methods Book Chapters
Abstract Deadline: 31 May 2024

One desired topic of interest to #envhist / #envhum : 'Ways to attend to the nonhuman and more-than-human in digital research'

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#digitalmethods #dighum #dhist

Find out about how I afforded to live in Santa Monica as a broke grad student and much more in this fun article by Caitlin Hernández (they/them) about my upcoming book SAND RUSH!
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Très heureux d'annoncer la journée 'Les pollutions de l'Antiquité à nos jours' (6 juin) organisée à Nice dans le cadre des Printemps de l'histoire environnementale du Le Ruche avec Lavinia Maddaluno CHEVIRON JEAN-LUC Centre de la Méditerranée Moderne et Contemporaine, encore merci Broch florent pour l'illustration. Infos👇

Join André Geremia Parise of the University of Reading and Dr Isis Brook of Bath Spa University for the online seminar, Attending to Plants: Botanical Intelligence and Phenomenology, on 6 May 2024, from 4-5.30pm Helsinki time.

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Plato’s final hours recounted in scroll found in Vesuvius ash theguardian.com/books/2024/apr…

This photo shows a new dry dock arriving in North Vancouver from Japan on August 24, 1981, for Burrard-Yarrows Corp. Costing $42 million and purchased from Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, the facility quickly became the country's busiest.