# environmental history (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 2 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover environmental history. Page: Feed: --- ## [Introduction to Environmental History](https://environmentalhistory.org/2026/07/15/5069/) _2026-07-15 · Bill Kovarik · Environmental history_ Environmental issues, concerns, and conflicts are constant throughout human history, which may come as a surprise because our emphasis in history has all too often been on war and politics, rather than environment, culture and development. Yet evidence of this Continue reading ## [How politicians screw up science](https://environmentalhistory.org/2026/07/15/how-politicians-screw-up-science/) _2026-07-15 · Bill Kovarik · Environmental history_ Here s what happens when you put politicians in charge of science, according to Science News July 10, 2026. Soviet scientists in the 1930s knew what could happen if they bucked the party line: denunciation, firing and banishment from the scientific Continue reading ## [Climate denial is fraudulent, Senator says](https://environmentalhistory.org/2026/05/04/sen-whitehouse-calls-out-the-greatest-fraud/) _2026-05-04 · Bill Kovarik · Environmental history_ ## [Episode 16: Megadrought in Mesopotamia](https://theclimatechronicles.com/2026/04/07/episode-16-megadrought-in-mesopotamia/) _2026-04-07 · Dagomar Degroot · The Climate Chronicles_ Listen to the Episode: More than 4,000 years ago, a wall seems to have gone up across what is now northern Iraq. It may have been over 200 kilometers long – more than the distance between New York and Philadelphia; just a little less than the distance from Paris to Brussels. It appears to have \[…\] [Listen](https://theclimatechronicles.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/CC-Episode-16-Second-Revision.mp3) ## [Episode 15: The Drying of the Sahara](https://theclimatechronicles.com/2026/03/23/episode-15-the-drying-of-the-sahara/) _2026-03-23 · Dagomar Degroot · The Climate Chronicles_ Listen to the Episode: In the heart of the Sahara Desert, along the western edge of the Aïr Massif (air mah-SEEF), there is an archaeological site, known as Gobero, that dates back to the very dawn of the Holocene, 11,700 years ago. There are skeletons under the sands of Gobero – skeletons in what may \[…\] [Listen](https://theclimatechronicles.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/CC-Episode-15.mp3) ## [Episode 14: The Hottest Holocene](https://theclimatechronicles.com/2026/03/17/the-hottest-holocene/) _2026-03-17 · Dagomar Degroot · The Climate Chronicles_ Listen to the Episode: Along the northwestern fringe of Greenland, there is a vast dome of ice, sloping above the rugged crust until it’s taller than the Empire State Building. Prudhoe Dome, as it’s called, belongs to the Greenland Ice Sheet. Standing atop its windswept surface, peering out at an endless white horizon, it feels \[…\] [Listen](https://theclimatechronicles.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Episode-14-Complete.mp3) ## [Remembering Paul Ehrlich](https://environmentalhistory.org/2026/03/16/remembering-paul-ehrlich/) _2026-03-16 · Bill Kovarik · Environmental history_ Paul Ehrlich often called alarmist for dire warnings about human harms to the Earth believed scientists had a responsibility to speak out. By Bill Kovarik The Conversation March 16, 2026 Stanford University biologist Paul Ehrlich, who died March 13, Continue reading ## [Episode 13: The Bones at Star Carr](https://theclimatechronicles.com/2026/03/03/episode-13-the-bones-at-star-carr/) _2026-03-03 · Dagomar Degroot · The Climate Chronicles_ Listen to the Episode: A woman, not more than twenty years old, steps onto a ramshackle platform: tree trunks and branches, bound together, edging into a lake. The Sun has just begun to climb above the horizon. As she picks her way over the logs, the woman’s hand grazes a thicket of reeds along the \[…\] [Listen](https://theclimatechronicles.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/CC-Episode-13.mp3) ## [Episode 12: The Natufian Wager](https://theclimatechronicles.com/2026/02/22/episode-12-the-natufian-wager/) _2026-02-22 · Dagomar Degroot · The Climate Chronicles_ Listen to the Episode: In 1877, an astronomer saw the impossible: a network of lines, crisscrossing Mars. Two decades later, many believed those lines were canals. Mars was widely thought to be older than Earth, and scientists had concluded that planets dried out as they aged. It seemed as though an alien civilization had built \[…\] [Listen](https://theclimatechronicles.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/CC-Episode-12-Revised-May-2026.mp3) ## [Biologist kidnapped in Mexico](https://environmentalhistory.org/2026/01/11/biologist-kidnapped-in-mexico/) _2026-01-11 · Bill Kovarik · Environmental history_ By Rhett Ayers Butler Mongabay In the mountains of central Veracruz, scientific work is rarely abstract. It means walking narrow paths through cloud forest, speaking patiently with communities, and learning to read landscapes that yield information slowly. It also means Continue reading ## [Sync Bookmarks Everywhere (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/X7FjNT74DzAH) _2026-01-11 · **Sponsored**_ Two-way sync keeps folders and toolbar intact across Chrome, Firefox, and Safari. ## [When coal smoke choked St. Louis in 1939](https://environmentalhistory.org/2025/10/22/wyss/) _2025-10-22 · Bill Kovarik · Environmental history_ By Robert Wyss The Conversation, CC, Oct. 21, 2025 It was a morning unlike anything St. Louis had ever seen. Automobile traffic crawled as drivers struggled to peer through murky air. Buses, streetcars and trains ran an hour behind schedule. Continue reading ## [Bill Moyers & the Environment](https://environmentalhistory.org/2025/06/27/bill-moyers-the-environment/) _2025-06-27 · Bill Kovarik · Environmental history_ Bill Moyers (June 5, 1934 – June 26, 2025), one of the world s leading journalists, died in New York recently. A White House press secretary under Lyndon Johnson in the 1960s, a CBS correspondent and PBS program producer since the Continue reading [Listen](https://www.sej.org/sites/default/files/Moyers-austin.mp3) ## [Last days of the Rainbow Warrior](https://environmentalhistory.org/2025/06/22/last-days-of-the-rainbow-warrior/) _2025-06-22 · Bill Kovarik · Environmental history_ Excellent new article in Slate Magazine by Dan Kios: Four decades ago, a secret government team had a target—and a plan. It turned into one of the most sensationally botched crimes of the century. ## [UN: Oceans needed for survival](https://environmentalhistory.org/2025/06/09/un-oceans-needed-for-survival/) _2025-06-09 · Bill Kovarik · Environmental history_ . The urgent need to restore the Ocean is the focus of a major international conference taking place in Nice, France in June 2025. The Ocean is in deep crisis, the UN said. Factors such as acidification, declining fish stocks, Continue reading ## [Symposium on leaded gasoline May 20, 2025](https://environmentalhistory.org/2025/05/21/symposium-on-leaded-gasoline-may-20-2025/) _2025-05-21 · Bill Kovarik · Environmental history_ (This is a preliminary edit of the three hour long video from May 20. Many thanks to the participants.) Video of an informal online public symposium on the 100th anniversary of the Public Health Service conference regarding the danger of Continue reading ## [Episode 11: Memories of Atlantis](https://theclimatechronicles.com/2025/04/07/episode-11-memories-of-atlantis/) _2025-04-07 · Dagomar Degroot · The Climate Chronicles_ Listen to the Episode: Sometime around the year 600 BCE, the story goes, a legendary Athenian statesman named Solon traveled to the capital of ancient Egypt. Along the steamy banks of the Nile, he sought out the priests of Neith, a goddess in the Egyptian pantheon who was, supposedly, as old as time itself. Solon \[…\] [Listen](https://theclimatechronicles.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/cc-episode-11.mp3) ## [Episode 10: The Younger Dryas Diaries](https://theclimatechronicles.com/2025/03/27/episode-10-the-younger-dryas-diaries/) _2025-03-27 · Dagomar Degroot · The Climate Chronicles_ Listen to the Episode: Some 13,000 years ago, the Pleistocene world was warming – fast. Average global temperatures had soared by more than three degrees Celsius since the chilliest point of the Last Glacial Maximum, around 7,000 years earlier. Ice sheets were in headlong retreat, and meltwater flowing into the ocean had helped raise sea \[…\] [Listen](https://theclimatechronicles.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/episode-10-corrected-1.mp3) ## [Episode 9: The Last of Them](https://theclimatechronicles.com/2025/03/05/episode-9-the-last-of-them/) _2025-03-05 · Dagomar Degroot · The Climate Chronicles_ Listen to the Episode: Around 50,000 years ago, Mandrin Cave was a lonely place. Hollowed out of a limestone cliff, the cave overlooked the Rhône Valley in southern France. The valley, now a lush, rolling landscape of vineyards and orchards, was then cold and bleak. A small band of Neanderthals, numbering no more than 30, \[…\] [Listen](https://theclimatechronicles.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/cc-episode-9.mp3) ## [Episode 8: The Sapien Shock](https://theclimatechronicles.com/2025/02/25/episode-8-the-sapien-shock/) _2025-02-25 · Dagomar Degroot · The Climate Chronicles_ Listen to the Episode: Several years ago, researchers installed hidden speakers and motion-activated cameras around watering holes in South Africa’s Greater Kruger National Park. As elephants, impalas, hyenas, and other animals approached to drink, the researchers played a variety of sounds to observe their reactions. As you can imagine, many animals fled when they heard \[…\] [Listen](https://theclimatechronicles.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/episode-8-revised-1.mp3) ## [Brisk AI News Briefings (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/ZRQ9gjBV6Qws) _2025-02-25 · **Sponsored**_ Read AI summaries and listen to audio briefings for top stories. ## [Episode 7: Avoiding the Apocalypse](https://theclimatechronicles.com/2025/02/18/episode-7-avoiding-the-apocalypse/) _2025-02-18 · Dagomar Degroot · The Climate Chronicles_ Listen to the Episode: Around 75,000 years ago, two super-volcanic eruptions quite literally shook the Earth. First, the Atitlán caldera in present-day Guatemala exploded with the force of one trillion tons of TNT. To put that in perspective, that’s about 330 times more energy than could be unleashed by all of the world’s nuclear weapons \[…\] [Listen](https://theclimatechronicles.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/cc-episode-7.mp3)