This is the 278th 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.
Here are the top articles among environmental historians and humanities scholars this past week (July 18, 2022 – July 24, 2022):
Monday: “Forest fires rage across Europe as heatwave sends temperatures soaring” by Sam Jones, The Guardian
Tuesday: “In 1958 Mao Zedong ordered all the sparrows to be killed because they ate too much grain. This caused one of the worst environmental disasters in history” by Goran Blazeski, The Vintage News
Wednesday: “Antiracism, Blue Humanism and the Black Mediterranean” by Paul Gilroy, Transition
Thursday: “Teaching and Flourishing with Everyday Water” by Tanya Matthan, The Network in Canadian History and Environment (NiCHE)
Friday: “Dramatic NASA photos reveal Lake Mead water levels at lowest point since 1937” by Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times
Saturday: “Museum of Natural History and Environmental Culture,” The City.mx
Sunday: “During summer camp, a conversation with Pointe-au-Chien children about land loss and culture” by Kezia Setyawan, WWNO
Top Words
- water
- people
- said
- Verdin
- land
- Museum
- students
- change
- China
- Lake
- sparrows
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