Teaching environmental history @UCBHistory. Writing about fossil fuels, climate, and capitalism in India — New book: Until the Last Ton out w/ @PrincetonUPress
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The @epw_in is an institution. But we do not know much of where it came from. This is an affectionate story by Alaknanda Patel of 'The Economic Weekly' , the forerunner of EPW, seen from close quarters. theindiaforum.in/history/sac… @TheIndiaForum
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COP17 dispatch from Yerevan: nature rarely attracts the same crowds as climate, but it’s a dedicated bunch, with more of a say.
Things seem 🤐, but the big fights are over “broadening the contributor base” to include countries like China, and getting large companies to pay.
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Spotlight 💡 | This week, Carbon Brief reports from Yerevan, Armenia, which is currently playing host to the COP17 biodiversity summit.
Read our reporting here ⬇️
carbonbrief.org/debriefed-23…
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Matthew Shutzer (@mshutzer) on the overlooked origins of climate science. pioneerworks.org/broadcast/l…
What was climate science? For @PioneerWorks_ I wrote about its watery origins in oceanography, underwater oil exploration, and the apocalyptic visions of the nuclear age: pioneerworks.org/broadcast/l…
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We forget that climate science was born from the very mechanisms of planetary destruction it warns us about. For PW Broadcast, environmental historian Matt Shutzer (@mshutzer) of @UCBHistory writes on how fossil-fueled consumption and the atomic bomb shaped early warnings of our planet warming. pioneerworks.org/broadcast/l…
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Some context for this event, which among other things, typifies the dramatic rightward repositioning of @TheNewSchool that has accompanied the termination and forced retirement of many brilliant scholars and the effective destruction of tenure:
scatter.wordpress.com/2026/0…
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In "Home, Travel, Prayer," we catch up with Mandana Limbert about her 2026 Jack Goody Award-winning essay, "#Homeland is Where the Soul Resides: Travel Prayer, Passports, and Nation in the Western Indian Ocean."
sites.lsa.umich.edu/cssh/202…
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We have arrived at the official publication date for my new book.
TROOP MOVEMENTS — by Tejasvi Nagaraja
Check it out — and get in touch!
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The courts don’t work. Some of us remember when they did and how. In 2019, I wrote about how India’s top green court was being systematically choked: caravanmagazine.in/law/suffo… That suffocation now seems complete.
0% success rate for environmental parties in NGT appeals from Jan-June: Report
(@JasjeevGandhiok ✍️)
hindustantimes.com/s/1gtbVDM
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A study published by the South Asian Reporter for Environment Laws (SAREL) on 19 September 2026 found that, during the first six months of 2026, the National Green Tribunal (NGT) did not rule in favour of an environmental or public-interest party in a single appeal heard on merits.
119 appeals were filed before the NGT’s five benches between January and June 2026, and 52 were dismissed on procedural grounds which, in itself, is questionable. Of the 67 appeals heard on merits:
• 51 appeals were filed by industry, project proponents or property owners. They received favourable orders in 30 cases, or around 60% of these appeals.
• In contrast, environmental or public-interest parties filed 16 appeals seeking environmental justice. All 16 were dismissed, with none receiving a favourable ruling.
The contrast is particularly significant given that the NGT was established in June 2010 through an Act of Parliament to provide effective and expeditious environmental justice to the citizens of the country. Over the past decade it has been emasculated by the Modi Govt but recover and rediscover its courage it must.
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Berkeley History is hiring: The Mediterranean and its Hinterlands, 500-1500 CE. Our third search this year. Please help us spread the word!
aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05…
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M. X. Mitchell, author of UNSETTLING SOVEREIGNTIES, interviews Benetick Kabua Maddison about the ongoing impact of aboveground US nuclear weapons testing in the Marshall Islands. Read at @PhysicsToday. buff.ly/eLaoW83
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Probably the biggest tenure track job for Modern European Intellectual History to appear in years--presumably to replace Martin Jay's old position: UC Berkeley, Assistant Professor – Modern European Intellectual History - Department of History: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05…
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Berkeley POLITICAL ECONOMY is hiring! Our undergraduate major has thrived for more than 40 years (with about 250 graduates per year today), and our new PhD minor is booming (with more than 100 PhD students from 16 departments or schools).
Details here:
aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05…
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Withdraw from the UNFCCC, quit the board of the Loss and Damage Fund, destroy USAID, unleash “energy dominance”, and then announce a paltry $500,000 in immediate relief.
I spoke with Nepal’s Foreign Minister Khanal this morning about their search-and-rescue efforts, including the urgent efforts to locate our missing citizens. The @StateDept is quickly deploying $500,000 in assistance to flood-affected communities while @USEmbassyNepal is coordinating with local authorities on efforts to assist U.S. nationals. The United States stands with the people of Nepal during this difficult time and will continue to support relief and recovery efforts.
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We're hiring! The UC Berkeley History Department is searching for an Assistant Professor of African history.
To learn more about the position and to apply, visit aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05…!
#werehiring #history #ucberkeley
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'The deadly flooding in Nepal was likely set off in part by an enormous chunk of ice snapping off a glacier. Warming temperatures caused by climate change may have accelerated the glacier’s collapse, scientists said, but added it was too early to say' nytimes.com/2026/08/26/world…
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come for the exemplary political economy of cement, "the most consumed substance on Earth after water": overcapacity, thin profits, bosses using climate as excuse for mass layoffs
stay for the basque cement strikers pushing for worker + public control phenomenalworld.org/analysis…
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Summer in Mumbai was brutal and endless. The monsoon's poster child was running out of water. In a dispatch for @Equatormag, I wrote about what it's like to live with extreme heat in a broken city and limits to resilience. With🔥 images by @ishantankha. equator.org/articles/city-of…
