Global Environment

GE Vol.19 (2), June 2026

Imagining Planetary Health, Wellbeing and Habitability: Perspectives from the Environmental Humanities

EDITORIAL
Imagining Planetary Health, Wellbeing and Habitability: Perspectives from the Environmental Humanities Lijuan Klassen, Christof Mauch

RESEARCH ARTICLES
Crisis of Planetary Health: Epistemological Holism and the Production of Environmental Risk Finian Worrall

Controlling the Planet’s Health: from Homeostasis and Geophysiology to the Planetary Health Watch Lijuan Klassen

Ecofeminist Grand Narratives? Cohabitability with More-Than-Human Worlds Iwona Janicka

Planetary Health from Below: Multispecies Health Collectives in the Environmental Aesthetics of Contagion and Chemical Solutions Azucena Castro

Planetary Palliation: Dying, Grief, and Solidarity on a Damaged Planet Dylan M. Harris

Interscalar Health: From Hawaiian Fishpond to Planet (And Back) Tomas A. Matza, Nicole E. Heller

Shifting Wetlands Attitudes in Singapore and Perth: Tracing Metaphors, Values and Mobilising Publics on Site Kylie Crane

Rationalising Planetary Relations: the Planetary Health Diet, Quantification and Multispecies Communities André Krebber, Nina Mackert

From Sprinkles to Kabchi: Ethnographic Insights on Planetary Health and the Pluriverse from Bhutan Shivani Kaul, Sonam Choeki Wangmo, Pema Yangchen

Activism and Stories around Agroecology and Climate Justice for New Ways to Inhabit the Planet Helena Rodrigues Lopes, Bruno Azevedo Prado

ERROR
Visualising the Unseen – Challenges in Exhibiting Planetary Health Fabienne Will

BOOK REVIEWS
Kim De Wolff, Synthetic Frontiers: Ocean Plastic and the Persistence of Trash Islands Maud Rijks

NOTES FROM THE ICEHOUSE
Notes from the Icehouse – Ecology and The Nation. How One Australian Scholar came to Environmental History Libby Robin

GE Vol.19 (1), February 2026

Global Fat Resources: Connecting Themes, Approaches and Narratives, c. 1850–2020s

INTRODUCTION
Global Fat Resources: Connecting Themes, Approaches and Narratives, c.1850–2020s Elena Kochetkova, Matthias Heymann, Ines Prodöhl

RESEARCH ARTICLES
Fat: Lubricant of Modernity Ines Prodöhl

Autarkic, but Global: Fat Supply and Whaling in Pre-war Nazi Germany Ole Sparenberg

Whaling as an Interim Oil Supply Industry: The Rise and Fall of Whale Oil in the Competitive Fat and Oil Markets Jun Akamine

Roots and Dynamics of Dutch Foreign Plant-oil Demands 1920–2020 Frank Veraart, Maliene Kip, Janine Glas, Dulce Van Vliet

From Communal Agropastoral Practices to the Slaughterhouses in the Brazilian Border Line with Argentina: The Significance of Lard in Settlers’ Narratives (1930s–1960s) Claiton Marcio Da Silva, Elisandra Forneck, Aline Maisa Lubenow

Cod and its Oil, Cuisine and its Supplements: Fish Fragmentation, Commodity Connections and Naturalising Resources in Newfoundland L. Sasha Gora

Fish Oil’s Journey through Russian and Soviet History Julia Lajus, Dmitry Lajus

Food Chemistry, Fat Experiment and Palm Oil in Late Soviet Politics and Industry Elena Kochetkova

Global Entanglements of Palm Oil and Kernel Extraction from French West Africa (c. 1840–1960) Giovanni Tonolo

Advocating for Inclusive Narratives: A Call for Critical Engagement with the Palm Oil Agribusiness Sector Shakila Yacob, Caitlyn Sears

Meanings of Sustainability: the Invention of Sustainable Palm Oil Matthias Heymann

BOOK REVIEWS
Rup Kumar Barman, River, Society and Culture: Environmental Perspectives on the Rivers of Assam and Bengal Sujit Majhi

NOTES FROM THE ICEHOUSE
Notes from the Icehouse – Staying Open: Shaping Environmental History in Sweden Sverker Sörlin