diff --git a/environment.yml b/environment.yml
index a5b61220f88f3..ac696b95f6ba9 100644
--- a/environment.yml
+++ b/environment.yml
@@ -114,4 +114,4 @@ dependencies:
   - natsort  # DataFrame.sort_values
   - pip:
     - git+https://github.com/pandas-dev/pydata-sphinx-theme.git@2488b7defbd3d753dd5fcfc890fc4a7e79d25103
-    - git+https://github.com/numpy/numpydoc
+    - numpydoc < 1.2  # 2021-02-09 1.2dev breaking CI
diff --git a/requirements-dev.txt b/requirements-dev.txt
index 3a992f8899139..92a98fbb0547c 100644
--- a/requirements-dev.txt
+++ b/requirements-dev.txt
@@ -77,4 +77,4 @@ pyreadstat
 tabulate>=0.8.3
 natsort
 git+https://github.com/pandas-dev/pydata-sphinx-theme.git@2488b7defbd3d753dd5fcfc890fc4a7e79d25103
-git+https://github.com/numpy/numpydoc
+numpydoc < 1.2