We are thrilled to announce that the 2026 winner of our Best Book in Canadian Environmental History Prize is Jack Bouchard for Terra Nova: Food, Water, and Work in an Early Atlantic World (@yalepress.bsky.social 2025)!!
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#envhist #cdnhist #books
"France passed a single law and instantly unlocked 11 gigawatts of #solarenergy — without using new land. In 2023, France's government mandated solar canopies over all car parks larger than 80 spaces. The scale was enormous: There are 400,000 parking areas across France #ActOnClimate #Renewables
Scientists: We desperately need long, unbroken records of North Atlantic currents to see how close we are to a #climate tipping point.
US government: sending ships to rip 900 deep-sea sensors out of the water.
Congress voted twice to keep them funded. They're being pulled anyway.
We are pleased to announce that NiCHE’s 2026 Best Book in Canadian Environmental History Prize has been awarded to Jack Bouchard, Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the Rutgers Univer...
It’s truly astonishing to see how comprehensively the US government is tearing down every part of the system that has made it up until now a world-leading power in science, research, and technological development. The entire world will suffer from this wanton destruction.
"All historians, regardless of experience in environmental history or history of science, can bring the climate emergency into their classroom." - @danielmacfarlane.bsky.social
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#envhist #cdnhist #climhist #energyhistory #climatechange #teaching
Don't miss! Next week ethnobiologist and forest education teacher Anna Varga will give a workshop on charcoal burning.
Find out more: www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/events_conf_...
#envhum #envhist #charcoal #forests
(Conference) Health and the Environment in the Preindustrial World: Multidisciplinary Approaches histoiresante.blogspot.com/2026/06/la-s... #histSTM #envhist
Carrie Leilani
White House proposes new rules giving political appointees final approval of research grants
These proposed Office of Management and Budget regulations would render the federal research grant review process opaque
www.scientificamerican.com/article/whit...
Global report provides an alternative to climate breakdown, political extremism and economic tensions
www.theguardian.com
Climate change, as well as our other big ecological problems, is tightly linked to how we use and consume resources.
