Watershed Protection as Dispossession in Japanese-Occupied Taiwan | Environmental History: Vol 31,...

AbstractEnvironmentalists have long seen in the watershed the promise of an ethic of stewardship predicated on the recognition that no action affecting a waterway can be free from upstream influences...

“A Good Tree Is a Fast-Growing Tree”: South Korea’s Reforestation in the 1950s and the Making of...

AbstractThis article reexamines the early history of reforestation in postwar South Korea, focusing on the 1950s, a decade typically overshadowed by the authoritarian tree-planting campaigns of the...

Insect Safari: Invading Species and Transimperial Science in Kenya | Environmental History: Vol 31,...

AbstractAt the turn of the twentieth century, the region that came to be known as Kenya endured two late-imperial biological exchanges, as white settlers and arabica coffee arrived to dominate the...

Ecologies in Flight: Black Environmental Knowledge and Human-Bird Interactions Between the Caribb...

AbstractPeople interacted with birds and created ecological knowledge about them while enslaved and during the transition to emancipation from 1848 onward in the Danish colony of St. Croix. These...

Seasonal Harvests: Migration, Reproduction, and Religion in the Early Modern Spanish Tuna Fisheries...

AbstractThis article argues that the early modern Spanish tuna fisheries were a compelling maritime cultural theater in which species, calendars, and cultural practices collided. Combining the...

Playing Gaia: Simulation, Science, and the Significance of Video Games for Environmental History |...

AbstractIn 1990, video game publisher Maxis released SimEarth. Designed by Will Wright, the game tasked users to consider atmospheric, geologic, and biological variables to simulate a global system....

Heritage and Environment: Archaeology at a United Fruit Company Site, 1909–1939 | Environmental...

AbstractThe process of creating archaeological heritage sites is necessarily rooted in the environments that surround them. This was particularly true for the Maya archaeological site of Quiriguá,...

The “Eco-Phony” World’s Fair: Expo ’74 and the Bind of Being Friends of the Earth | Environmental...

AbstractBy the summer of 1974, David Brower had turned his environmental organization Friends of the Earth into a leading proponent of global environmentalism. However, after returning from the...

Rising Seas, Sinking Lands: Reckoning with Local and Global Sea Level in the Early Modern Netherl...

AbstractThis article examines notions of rising seas in the early modern Dutch Republic and explores how Dutch water management spurred efforts to think and act across scales. Focusing on a 1731...

Colonizing the Lu’s Realm: How Lowland Aquacultures Transformed the Upper Brahmaputra’s Waters in...

AbstractThis article argues that first the British, then the Indian, and especially the Chinese states extended their control over the upper Brahmaputra River’s waters in Tibet and the Himalaya,...

Environmental History | Vol 31, No 2

Making Plastics Count: Citizen Science Beach Cleanups and the Ocean Plastic Pollution Crisis...

AbstractIn the 1980s, women in Oregon, Texas, and New Jersey organized the first “citizen beach cleanups,” directing volunteers to not simply clean up but collate data on the number and type of trash...

Drawing Barbed Wire: The Tule Lake Scrapbook of 1942 | Environmental History: Vol 30, No 4

AbstractIn December 1942, teachers and Japanese Americans at the Tule Lake Relocation Center created a scrapbook for Elmer Shirrell, the camp’s outgoing director. The scrapbook reveals Tule Lake...

Still a Silent World: Fish Ears, Whale Politics, and the Science of Ocean Noise, 1941–1990 |...

AbstractThis article brings together a history of more-than-human sensory life across the multitude of underwater environments that shaped knowledge of and concern about the effects of anthropogenic...

Muddy Lines and Murky Waters: The Making of a Colonial Deltaic Forest, 1816–1828 | Environmental...

AbstractThis article focuses on the extensive, low-lying mangrove forests in the lower Gangetic Delta, commonly called the Sundarbans, in the early decades of the nineteenth century. The English East...