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13/08/2025

New *Open Access* ahead of print article in Environment and history: 'A Fishy Tale of the Nuclear Power Plant Never Built in Estonia: An Envirotechnical History of Energy, Fish, Land and Water Resources Planning at Lake Võrtsjärv', by KATI LINDSTRÖM and ACHIM KLÜPPELBERG: https://liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/whpeh.63861480327369

11/08/2025

An event at the European Society for Environmental History - ESEH conference in Uppsala next week!

03/08/2025

Research by Harrison Croft first published as a Snapshot in Environment and History made it to the front page of the BBC website today 😁

The platypus was a top secret gift from Australia, found dead in his enclosure as war raged in the seas around him.

29/07/2025

Preview of the next issue of Plant Perspectives - a special issue from Kew, edited by Caroline Cornish and Christina Hourigan. The issue will be out in late September

28/07/2025

New blog about an exhibition all plant aficionados should see if in London this summer:

In this blog, Isis Brook, deputy editor of Plant Perspectives, reviews the exhibition ‘Unearthed: The Power of Gardening’, at the British Library until 10 August 2025. More information …

28/07/2025

A preview of the next issue of Global Environment, coming in September!

17/07/2025

Just published, in print and Open Access online - Collet et al. (eds), Nordic Climate Histories: Impacts, Pathways, Narratives. Find out more, buy print copies and download the Open Access edition at https://www.whpress.co.uk/publications/2025/05/02/nordicclimatehistories/
The book will be launched, with wine and snacks and everything at the European Society for Environmental History - ESEH conference in Uppsala 🙂

17/07/2025

New article in Plant Perspectives, fully Open Access as always. Ralph R. Acampora, 'Towards a Philosophic Appraisal of Plants:
Their Metaphysical and Moral Significance': https://www.whp-journals.co.uk/PP/article/view/1223

16/07/2025

Two new ahead of print articles in Environment and History: Adam Sundberg, 'Translating Algae into Policy: Introduced Marine Pests and the Emergence of Australian Ballast Water Management, 1970–1990'; and Kristin Brig-Ortiz, 'Water, Race and Power: Hydro-Normativity and Urban Water Surveillance in the Cape Colony and Natal, 1830–1899' (subscription access required): https://liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/toc/whpeh/0/0

15/07/2025

New ahead of print article in Nomadic Peoples, fully Open Access thanks to Subscribe to Open: Lucie Buffavand, ROAD TO VIOLENCE: LAND ALIENATION, ROAD DEATHS AND STATE-MAKING IN THE LOWER OMO VALLEY, SOUTH-WEST ETHIOPIA

Among the forms of violence concomitant with the development of large-scale commercial agriculture, road deaths are rarely mentioned. In Ethiopia’s lower Omo valley, many agro-pastoralists have been killed or injured by vehicles since the development of ...

15/07/2025

New article in Worldwide Waste, fully Open Access: Tetiana Perga, 'Conflicting Interests: The Early Development of Makulatura Collection in Soviet Ukraine'
https://www.whp-journals.co.uk/WW/article/view/2223

14/07/2025

Environment and History 31.3 is now online at https://liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/toc/whpeh/current