Content Index

Full open-access volume Grasping Soil: A Syllabus and Essays for the Environmental Humanities (2026), edited by Emily Brownell.

Although known today more for beaches than blazes, Cape Cod experienced severe wildfires in 1887 that—when remembered—draw attention to the region’s inherent flammability and need for fire-adaptive management.

A reflection on how environmental history emerged in Sweden.

Full open-access volume Rural Transitions in Mongolia and Central Asia: Pastoralism, Wellbeing and Economic Relations (2026), edited by Ariell Ahearn, Gantulga Munkherdene, and Takahiro Ozaki.

Villagers witness and push to maintain ecological relations in the face of development that has decimated olive groves and scattered fences and turbines.

Across a century and a half, colonial, private and government salt farming at Sambhar has transformed the ecology of the lake and caused a slow cataclysm of pollution, affecting wildlife and livelihoods.

Land conservation initiatives underwent rapid change in early twentieth-century Wisconsin, culminating in the protection of hundreds of local natural areas scattered across the state.

The story of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring told in Spanish.

Full open-access volume Cordenadas para una democracia ambiental en Argentina (2025) by the Escazú Observatory.

Tropical humidity necessitated a quest for rust-proof insect pins, determining which specimens could be preserved, which tools could be used, and ultimately what knowledge could be produced in the Dutch East Indies.