This is the 195th post in my series that explores the most-used words in the top stories shared among Environmental Historians and Environmental Humanities scholars on Twitter each week. 

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Here are the top articles among environmental historians and humanities scholars this past week (November 16, 2020 – November 22, 2020):

Monday: “Knowledge, Indigenous, Google” by Jessica DeWitt, Historical DeWitticisms


Tuesday: Trump Rushes Environmental Rules That Could Handcuff Biden” by Jennifer A Dlouhy, Bloomberg Green


Wednesday: “Research on environmental history: 330-year-old poplar tree tells of its life” by Technical University Munich, Phys.org


Thursday: “Three ways your environment affects your intelligence” by Matt Davis, Big Think


Friday: Research on environmental history: 330-year-old poplar tree tells of its life” by Technical University of Munich (TUM), Science Daily


Saturday: It’s time for everyone to pick a side: America or President Trump” by Paul Waldman, The Washington Post


Sunday: Deep Frozen Arctic Microbes Are Waking Up” by Kimberley R. Miner, Arwyn Edwards, and Charles Miller, Scientific American


Top Words

  1. can
  2. Trump
  3. tree
  4. Arctic
  5. epigenetic
  6. administration
  7. environmental
  8. may
  9. trees
  10. also
  11. researchers
  12. years

Published by Jessica M. DeWitt

Dr. Jessica M. DeWitt is an environmental historian of Canada and the United States. She is passionate about the use of digital technologies to bridge the gap between the public and researchers. In addition to her community and professional work, she offers various editing and social media consultancy services.

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