The autumn term 2025 card for the NEHN Seminar 1: 28th October 2025, 1500 GMT ; Thomas Banbury (University of Cambridge): 'Against Miasma: New Models of Historical Environmental Medicine' Seminar 2: 18th November 2025. 1500 GMT ; Islay Shelbourne (University of St Andrews) : "'In California the Prognosis is Good': Californian Health Myths and Understanding of Contagion 1850-1920" Seminar 3: 2nd of December 2025, 1500 GMT; Richard Warren (University of Bern, Switzerland): 'Volcanoes and Climatic Instability in Early Ninteenth-Century India' Note: to sign up to the mailing list, please email Alex Hibberts on alexander.hibberts@durham.ac.uk

The nights are drawing in, and the rain is tapping on the windows, which means that we probably ought to be getting our term-card out. Three really exciting papers to look forward to!

The Little Ice Age: The History and Future of a Traveling Concept Since its inception, the “Little Ice Age” has grown into one of the most discussed “traveling concepts” in climate science, history, and communication. This article investigates the contested history...

Looking to get caught up on your #ClimateHistory? This review of the concept of the (early modern) Little Ice Age is very useful: wires.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1.... #skystorians #MedievalSky #EarlyModern 🧪🗃️ #OpenAccess

The rainfall observers Over the past three centuries, thousands of people across the British and Irish Isles have regularly recorded rainfall, often every day for decades. Their efforts allow us to reconstruct long-term tr...

The Rainfall Observers

Over the past three centuries, thousands of people across the British & Irish Isles have recorded rainfall, often every day for decades. Here we recognise some of the individuals who made particularly important contributions.

rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

A short history of destructive Irish storms We can learn from the impacts of past storms to better adapt to the destructive effects of future storms

A short history of destructive Irish storms. @carlapmateus.bsky.social @maynoothuniversity.ie looks back at centuries of major storms in Ireland www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

Our book on Nordic climate histories is now live (including download link) at www.whpress.co.uk/publications... Thanks to the Oslo Centre for Advanced Study for support of this project.

Armagh Observatory: 230 years of unbroken weather recordings The building holds the longest sequence of continuous weather data anywhere in the UK and Ireland.

Congratulations to Armagh Observatory in Northern Ireland which is marking 230 years of recording the weather every day.

These long-term observations are critical to understanding our changing weather.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Texas Officials Say They Didn’t See the Flood Coming. Oral Histories Show Residents Have Long Warned of Risks. After a tragedy, records from local archives can help us understand how a community understands itself. Here’s some of what we learned following the devastating July 4 flooding in Texas.

Oral histories can inform us of environmental hazards, and remind us that relatively few natural disasters are surprises: “Oral histories show Kerr County residents have warned one another, as well as newcomers and out-of-towners, about flooding for a long time.”

www.propublica.org/article/texa...

NESS2026 - Uppsala University The 17th Nordic Environmental Social Science Conference will be hosted by Uppsala University in June 2025. The conference brings together scholars from across research fields for meeting and discussin...

CfP open for the 2026 Nordic Environmental Social Science Conference in Uppsala www.uu.se/en/departmen...

Maohong Bao, Universidad de Pekin, China – Member, Asian Association of Environmental History, AAEH

Manuel González de Molina, Universidad Pedro de Olavide, Sevilla, Spain – Member, European Society for Environmental Histoty, ESEH, and SOLCHA

Participants:

Manuel González de Molina, Universidad Pedro de Olavide, Sevilla, Spain – Member, European Society for Environmental Histoty, ESEH, and SOLCHA

Maohong Bao, Universidad de Pekin, China – Member, Asian Association of Environmental History, AAEH

#envhist #solcha2025

Associate Professor in Environmental History (281801) | University of Stavanger Job title: Associate Professor in Environmental History (281801), Employer: University of Stavanger, Deadline: Thursday, August 7, 2025

www.jobbnorge.no/en/available.... Associate Professor in Environmental History (281801) | University of Stavanger

What Summer Was Like in the Middle Ages - Medievalists.net Discover how people in the Middle Ages endured the heat, managed harvests, treated sunburns, and found ways to keep cool during the summer months.

What Summer Was Like in the Middle Ages www.medievalists.net/2025/06/what... #Summer #MedievalSky

THIS WEEK!! Climates of Empire: Environmental Historians in Conversation with Climate Change Researchers

Centre for World Environmental History - More Information: www.sussex.ac.uk/cweh/newsand...

The PAGES Climate Reconstruction and Impacts from Archives of Society (CRIAS) working group will hold its final meeting at the European Society for Environmental History conference in Uppsala 19–22 August 2025 www.climatehistory.net/crias-2025

Warming accelerates global drought severity - Nature Increased atmospheric evaporative demand in recent years has increased drought severity by an average of 40% globally across both dry and wet regions, and the trend is likely to continue under future warming scenarios.

Nature research paper: Warming accelerates global drought severity

https://go.nature.com/45alUJe

I just published an explainer on aerosols and their role in the climate that I've been working on for the past few months! It includes both how aerosols work, how emissions have changed, and how thats driven recent warming: www.carbonbrief.org/...

Benjamin Schmidt (University of Washington) will speak about “Skating Through Climate Change: Ice, Snow, and Patria in the Little Ice Age”. Climate and Environmental History Seminar Stockholm University Wednesday June 11, 15.00–17.00 CET, www.su.se/department-o...

Wherever you live in the world, your climate is getting warmer.

21st June is #ShowYourStripes day when we encourage everyone to use the warming stripes graphics to talk about climate change and how we are all already experiencing the consequences.

Download your stripes: www.ShowYourStripes.info

Conference: The Future of Past Climate. Learning from the Nordic Little Ice Age. Oslo CAS 2-3 June 2025. cas-nor.no/events/futur...

The Stories We Tell: How Framing Shapes our Understanding of Climate-linked Migration The language and narratives we use don’t just describe climate-linked migration—they shape public attitudes, guide policy, and influence the solutions we see as possible.

Climate change is altering migration patterns. Discussing climate-related migration shapes perceptions and actions. Our words influence empathy or fear, public opinion, and political discourse, guiding potential solutions.

Upcoming conference: Palaeo-Hydrology: Ancient Disasters, Modern Applications (PHADMA) 9.-14.6.2025, Department of Geography, Bonn University, Germany. www.geographie.uni-bonn.de/phadma-confe...

HISTORECO: Historical Spanish transition database on climate, geography and economics of the 20th-21st century - Scientific Data Scientific Data - HISTORECO: Historical Spanish transition database on climate, geography and economics of the 20th-21st century

"HISTORECO: Historical Spanish transition database on climate, geography and economics of the 20th-21st century" www.nature.com/articles/s41... cc @eseh.bsky.social #envhist

I have started to repair the old website climatehistory.net I am hardly a gifted web designer, but the dead links are cleared out, and it's functional again! You can find links to news, (almost) monthly bulletins of events and publications, our bibliographical database, and more.

The Climate Chronicles, Previewing Episode 10: The Younger Dryas Diaries YouTube video by Dagomar Degroot

The 10th episode of the Climate Chronicles explores the Younger Dryas, a climate shock that cooled much of the northern hemisphere for a millennium. It was the Little Ice Age on steroids, yet our hunter-gather ancestors adapted in remarkably diverse ways. #EnvHist 1/4 www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltDG...

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Upcoming conference “Rebuild or Retreat? Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Climate Migration and Mobility in the Global North” German Historical Institute Washington 23-24 April 2026. The CFP is now online and open until June 16, 2025:
www.ghi-dc.org/events/event...

Two SI CfPs: Global Environmental Change "Resilience Rising: Thriving Amid Climate Challenges" (deadline 30.6) www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu... Environmental Science and Policy "Enhancing Climate-Resilient Development in Emerging Asian Regions" (30.9) www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

International Climate Resilience Conference at LMU Munich International Climate Resilience Conference will take place at LMU Munich, Germany, 26-29 October 2025! Looking forward to meeting you in Munich for this inspiring event!

The International Climate Resilience Conference will take place in Munich from 26–29 October 2025. www.climateresilience.info . Abstracts can be submitted by 30 May 2025.

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