This is the seventieth 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 (June 25 – July 1, 2018):

Monday: “A Radiologist’s X-Ray Photographs of Flowers from the 1930s” by Claire Voon, Hyperallergic 

Tuesday: “The Environmental Intelligence Platform for the Planet” by Jay Zaveri, Social Capital

Wednesday: “Monster hunt: using environmental DNA to survey life in Loch Ness” by Neil Gemmell, The Conversation

Thursday: “A History Of Environmental Destruction” by Ewan Wilson, The Games Edge

Friday: “Lost to Progress: Upper Mississippi River and Minneapolis Parks Development” by Anna Bierbrauer, Open Rivers: Rethinking Water, Place & Community

Saturday: “The Great Migration and Black Environmental History: An Interview with Brian McCammack” by J.T. Roane, Black Perspectives 

Sunday: “Environmental protections don’t kill business, but shortsightedness might” by Dan Grossman, The Denver Post

Top Words

1. Minneapolis 

2. River

3. park

4. environmental

5. river

6. parks

7. Park

8. city

9. will

10. Upper

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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