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The project Everyday Futures explores the role museums can play in helping to make sense of Australia’s experiences during a time of rapid planetary change and global disruption.

In Episode 44 of Nature’s Past, Sean Kheraj speaks with environmental historians who attended the 2014 Second World Congress for Environmental History in Guimarães, Portugal.

In episode 54 of Nature’s Past, Professor Jennifer Bonnell talks to Sean Kheraj about her journey from her dissertation to publishing her book, Reclaiming the Don: An Environmental History of Toronto’s Don River Valley.

In episode 58 of Nature’s Past, a podcast on Canadian environmental history, Sean Kheraj discusses key questions concerning the development of the field of Canadian environmental history with seven environmental historians.

In episode 51 of Nature’s Past, a podcast on Canadian environmental history, Sean Kheraj, Lisa Brady, Mark Hersey, and Liza Piper discuss whether environmental history should emphasize materialism and the use of environment as an analytical lens or proceed as a “big tent” that incorporates a wide range of scholarship regardless of methodology.

Analyzing the Volcanoes National Park in Rwanda, Munanura et al. examine how livelihood constraints in poor forest-adjacent communities influence illegal forest use.

ENHANCE is a four-year innovative training network (ITN) funded by Marie Skłodowska Curie that is dedicated to further establishing the Environmental Humanities as a field of cutting-edge scholarship in Europe and further afield.

Time to Eat the Dogs is a blog about science, history, and exploration. It aims to broaden the conversation beyond the limits of the history of science.

In this special issue on Disempowering Democracies, Robert Mbeche argues that even though REDD+ claims to be democratic and participatory, the Uganda program allows the input of only a few selected stakeholders – mainly the government actors and a limited number of NGOs.

This issue of Forest Voice, a publication of the Native Forest Council, provides an annual report, outlines its goals, and highlights its successes in advancing a Zero-Cut policy on public lands, even resulting in support from a majority of Sierra Club members. Bill Willers address timber industry influence on U.S. public schools. A feature article spotlights a referendum to limit clearcutting in Maine.