Over the last five decades since the first Earth Day, the JIH and environmental history, one newborn and the other already well established, have evolved within the broader context of climate change and the human reaction to it. Two of the JIH’s special issues, “History and Climate” (1980) and the “Little Ice Age: Climate and History Reconsidered” (2014), serve as bookends for an examination of how the journal responded to the latest scientific and historical findings. No other area of research requires interdisciplinary methods from so many branches of learning as does environmental history. Articles published in the JIH during the 1980s and thereafter reveal the advances in both climate research and environmental history that testify to the journal’s influence. All signs point to a vigorous and continuing role for the JIH in keeping these subjects at the forefront of an interdisciplinary endeavor ranging across the entire planet and its deep history.

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1970–2020年JIH中的环境史

自从第一个地球日以来的过去五十年中，JIH和环境历史（一个新生儿和另一个已经建立的环境）在更广泛的气候变化和人类对气候变化的反应范围内发展。JIH的两个特刊《历史与气候》（History and Climate）（1980年）和《小冰河世纪：气候与历史被重新考虑》（2014年）作为书的附录，考察了该杂志如何回应最新的科学和历史发现。没有其他研究领域像环境历史一样需要跨学科的研究方法。1980年代及其后在JIH上发表的文章揭示了气候研究和环境历史的进步，证明了该杂志的影响力。