Arcadia

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Arcadia: Explorations in Environmental History is an open-access, peer-reviewed online journal for short, illustrated, and engaging environmental histories. Embedded in a particular time and place, each story focuses on a site, event, person, organization, or species as it relates to nature and human society. The journal promotes accessibility and visibility of original research in global environmental history and cognate disciplines.

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Current Issue

2025

Published March 5, 2026

Spring

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    Katherine Sinclair (Author)

    “Cozy Families” or “Hideous Brutes”?—Working with Southern Elephant Seals on the French Kerguelen Islands

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc/9921
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    Maja Jeppesen (Author)

    Struggles over Water Rights and Legitimacy in Nairobi

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc/9952
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    Maile McFarland (Author)

    Plastics in the Peaks: The Hidden Threat to Himalayan Wildlife

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc/9951
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    Benjamin Kapron (Author)

    Other-than-Human Survivance Against the Trent-Severn Waterway

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc/9935
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    Kira Clingen (Author)

    Dunes, Development, and Delay: Climate Change Comes to Long Beach

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc/9929
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    Róbert Balogh (Author)

    Links Between State Power and Tree Species: Black Locust in Central Europe

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc/9928

Summer

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    Andrea Csendom (Author)

    Turning Ash into Gold: The 1783 Mount Asama Eruption and the Tenmei Famine in Early Modern Japanese Satire

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc/9953
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    José Miguel Moura Ferreira, Miguel Carmo, Inês Gomes, Marta Silva (Author)

    Roças and queimadas: Changing Landscapes of Fire in Twentieth-Century Portugal

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc/9983
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    Holden Turner (Author)

    NoMOSE: Contested Flood Barriers in Venice, Italy

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc/9986

Autumn

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    Ariane Desroches-Touchain (Author)

    Making Methane Visible: From Local Leaks to EU Regulation

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc/10033
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    Hatib A. Kadir (Author)

    Freshwater Fish Invasian as Deliberate Neglect: Unpacking Multispecies Colonialism in West Papua

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc/10025
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    Nathan Kiel (Author)

    State Natural Areas and the Evolution of Land Conservation in Twentieth-Century Wisconsin

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc/10051
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    Alina Marktanner (Author)

    Of Rust and Mold—The Insect Pin as a Token of Transimperial Cooperation

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc/10048
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    Ximena Sevilla (Author)

    More Than Territory: The Cultural and Ecological Importance of Indigenous People's Ties to the Andean-Amazonian Conservation Area Cordillera Escalera

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc/10045