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

Here are the top articles amongst environmental historians and humanities scholars this past week (March 26 – April 1, 2018):

Monday: “University, Canada, Canadian” by Jessica DeWitt, Historical DeWitticisms

Tuesday: “Confronting Colonialism in Land Acknowledgements” by Angie Tucker, Network in Canadian History and Environment (NiCHE)

Wednesday: “Visiting Fellows Program,” Humanities Research Centre, Australian National University

Thursday: “Historic agreement signed to protect the world’s largest tropical peatland,” UN Environment

Friday: “The Enduring Friendship of Wolves and Humans” by Mark Derr, Psychology Today

Saturday: “About,” Network in Canadian History and Environment (NiCHE)

Sunday: “Chain reaction of fast-draining lakes poses new risk for Greenland ice sheet,” ScienceDaily

Top Words

1. ice

2. wolves  

3. sheet 

4. University

5. people

6. one 

7. Pierotti

8. lakes

9. Fogg

10. crisis

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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