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markstoll.bsky.social
Environmental historian, author of Profit: An Environmental History (2023) and Inherit the Holy Mountain: Religion and the Rise of American Environmentalism (2015). https://www.markstoll.net/ Professor at @texastechuniv.bsky.social
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Tomorrow evening, we'll host a #documentary #filmscreening of 𝘕𝘶𝘤𝘩𝘪 𝘯𝘶 𝘔𝘪𝘫𝘪 – 𝘖𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘸𝘢'𝘴 𝘞𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘰𝘧 𝘓𝘪𝘧𝘦 at the RCC. The event is organized by Landhaus fellow Jun Mizukawa and visting scholar Kumiko Kiuchi. Event page: www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/events_conf_... #rccevents #okinawa #envhum

Breaking News! Code UFB!!! Global sea surface temperatures have once again broken the 21°C barrier. On Feb. 16, 2025, global SSTs hit 21.013°C. Since 1982, the only other years to see global SSTs breaking 21°C were 2023 and 2024.

Great story about why this beautiful place did not join the National Parks. #envhist #nationalparks #nps #Oregon www.sfgate.com/national-par...

The previous lowest maximum Arctic sea ice extent was 2017 at 14.43 million km² 🧪 #GreenSky

I have been watching these Andean fires on MODIS for the last couple of days. The images are remarkable. #envhum #wildfire earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/15392...

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Your regular reminder that the senator could have taken care of this in 2021

💔 Climate change is putting chocolate at risk. 🍫 Cacao trees are highly sensitive to temperature. More heat stress can reduce growth, lower yields, and impact the quality of cocoa beans. Read @climatecentral.org 's analysis here: www.climatecentral.org/report/analy...

"The question here is as the planet warms, as we add greenhouse gases, could new physical processes be emerging that climate models are not fully capturing and that human imagination is not very good at preparing for?" #climatechange #globalwarming #environment @npr.org www.npr.org/2025/02/12/n...

States with more renewable electricity do not have consistently higher power prices. Nor do they have consistently lower power prices. Power prices are determined by lots of forces above & beyond the generation mix.

Check out Rachel Singer's review of Annalisa Marzano's "Plants, Politics and Empire in Ancient Rome," published in 2022 by @cambridgeup.bsky.social; review now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhist #envhum #planthist #plantstudies www.h-net.org/reviews/show...

These positions are still open, please share widely and apply if you are eligible and interested in joining us in Stockholm! #envhist #envhum #anthropocene

Check out Alexander Tischer's review of Rolf Diamant & Ethan Carr's "Olmsted and Yosemite: Civil War, Abolition, and the National Park Idea," published in 2022 by the Library of American Landscape History; review available @hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhist #landscapes www.h-net.org/reviews/show...

I am extremely freaking thrilled to announce that Bad Company is *officially* available for preorder wherever you buy books. (I am linking to Bookshop but buy it wherever!) I worked so, so hard on this book, and it would mean a ton to me if you ordered it. bookshop.org/a/109816/978...

These Royal Entomological Society photography contest winners are just amazing. Scroll through with your morning tea. 🪳🪲 🌍 petapixel.com/2025/02/11/r...

Join VFS at our 4th Annual H2-Aero Symposium on April 2–3 in Long Beach, California! SAE International's Hydrogen Airport Taskgroup also meets on April 1. Join top speakers to discuss #hydrogen #aviation and fuel cell #technology. Register and book your hotel for #H2Aero today! vtol.org/h2symposium

Follow our Fellows! If you have been a fellow at the center and you're not listed, let us know. #envhum

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Nominate your peers for VFS Awards! You can still help recognize excellence in the vertical flight community through the prestigious VFS Annual Awards Program. The deadline is this Friday, Feb. 14: mailchi.mp/vtol/events-... #helicopter #rotorcraft #eVTOL #AAM #drone #VTOL #helicopters #aviation

Get in Dorks, we are going protesting. STAND UP FOR SCIENCE. MARCH 7th 12-4pm. DC AND YOUR STATE CAPITALS. More information to come.

Take-aways. 1. Several factors are involved in India playing a greater role in wildlife trafficking. 2. Creating superstitions affect the welfare of any species. 3. “Acquisition of value” is a source of a lot of grief. 🌏 #RedsandBoa #wildlifetrafficking #India news.mongabay.com/video/why-is...

Great news about a horrible crime - wildlife trafficking. Operation Thunder 2024. Interested to learn (among so much else) that DNA samples are taken to discover trafficking sources/channels & to better repatriate live victims. #wildlifetrafficking #Interpol #WCO #OperationThunder24 🌏

🏺✨ Glass Jade on the Silk Road A study traces how Silk Road trade brought West Asian glass techniques to China, blending with jade traditions. Ancient artisans crafted glass imitation jade, preserving its symbolism & advancing craftsmanship. 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41... #SciComm 🧪

You go! @katharinehayhoe.com “The reality is that we will not have anything left that we value if we do not address the climate crisis.” www.motherjones.com/environment/...

Great video by the great Neil deGrasse Tyson about his perspective climate change - youtu.be/tRA2SfSk2Tc?...

Amazing. I love solar power.

ICYMI: We've got a new series CFP out prompting ya'll to think about humour in relation to #envhist and the #climatecrisis Get us your proposals by March 1st! niche-canada.org/2025/02/06/c... #envhum #anthropocene

This is an interesting breakdown of a recent article by Jim Hansen and his colleagues on accelerated global warming. Hansen, a former NASA climate scientist, has made some of the most reliable predictions of global warming over the past 30 years. 🌎 insideclimatenews.org/news/0402202...

I cannot tell you how much I love that this is a physical switch

Avec du Docteur Cailloux dedans pour le chapitre sur les industries extractives #Envhist #mininghistory

‘Global Environment’ 18.1 is now available. This is a special issue called ‘Visions of Sustainability’, guest edited by Laura Meneghello. It’s #openaccess online, thanks to all of our #subscribetoopen and KOALA supporters! @globalenvironment.bsky.social #envhist

Excited to do the first keynote lecture for the conference Rethinking Wild Europe tomorrow cetep.eu/rethinking-w... #envhist #envhum

With an essay of mine!

Maxim Korolkov's Institutions and Environment in Ancient Southern East Asia (3000 BCE to 300 CE) is out! reurl.cc/kMb4Gr #envhist #Asia

Massive caves in Kenya weren't formed geologically, instead created by elephants seeking salt, breaking up rocks with their tusks and licking away the cavern walls. 🧪

BREAKING NEWS: Twenty-three Democratic attorneys general filed a motion to enforce a temporary restraining order to block President Donald Trump from withholding federal funds for key federal projects (including climate change-focused projects). Read more: substack.com/@clarkmindoc...

A fish doorbell in a canal in Utrecht: an underwater livestream is used to open the canal lock and let fish through. www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts... 🧪🌏🐟🚪

Saving species is possible depending on the action we take. We are working to #reversethered and taking action to recover the world's cranes, such as the Critically Endangered #siberiancrane population, which has nearly doubled in the last ten years! 🙌 🌏 🪶 Read more: bit.ly/3C1ebku 📷 Ciming Mei

Lack of awareness of a critically endangered otter species in South America is one of the major threats to its conservation: a new Report published as FirstView in 'Environmental Conservation' 🌎 🦦 #otter #endangered #conservation

Sings for itself 🪶🌿 #mangroveforests #habitatrestoration 🦉 🌎 news.mongabay.com/2025/02/how-...

An now they're coming for the National Parks? It was only a matter of time, I suppose. #NationalParks #NPS @sfgate.com www.sfgate.com/national-par...

New book: Ranjan Chakrabarti 's Climate, Calamity and the Wild: An Environmental History of the Bengal Delta, C.1737-1947 reurl.cc/RLoNRg #envhist #climate #disaster

Check out Lukas Rieppel's review of Joseph Giacomelli's "Uncertain Climes: Debating Climate Change in Gilded Age America," published in 2023 by @uchicagopress.bsky.social; review now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhist #envhum #histsci #climate www.h-net.org/reviews/show...

If you work at NOAA or have details about recent changes there, you can contact me via @signal.org (dell.3030) from a non-work device/network.

Was excited to share my thoughts about this record of a spotted hyena in Egypt, 300 miles north of the nearest known spottie population! Though the hyena met an untimely end, this record shows how much more data collection is needed in this region.🍪🧪🌍 @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/01/31/s...

🌎🌡️🌍🧪🦜🌏 long term resesrch on global bird populations www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Monocultures bring little to the economy or ecology 🌏 - www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Hot off the press! An article I wrote for Smithsonian on how the LA fires have impacted wildlife. I believe its the deepest dive into the LA fires' effects on fauna so far & not just because we talk diving fish & newts! Deeply grateful to all the experts who spoke with me & Joe's excellent editing🌎