Environment Books

How to Prepare for Climate Change
by David Pogue
Review
How to Avoid a Climate Disaster
by Bill Gates
Beloved Beasts
by Michelle Nijhuis
Review
The Carbon Club
by Marian Wilkinson
Review
Waters of the World
by Sarah Dry
Review
Waste: One Woman’s Fight Against America’s Dirty Secret
by Catherine Coleman Flowers
Review
AI in the Wild: Sustainability in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
by Peter Dauvergne
Review
Expedition Deep Ocean
by Josh Young
Review
All We Can Save
by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, Katharine K. Wilkinson
Review
The Age of Wood
by Roland Ennos
Review
The Next Great Migration
by Sonia Shah
Review
A Furious Sky
by Eric Jay Dolin
Review
Cottongrass Summer
by Roy Dennis
Review
Footprints: In Search of Future Fossils
by David Farrier
Review
The Future Earth
by Eric Holthaus
Review
Disposable City: Miami’s Future on the Shores of Climate Catastrophe
by Mario Alejandro Ariza
Review
World of Wonders
by Aimee Nezhukumatathil
Review
Superman’s Not Coming: Our National Water Crisis
by Erin Brockovich
Review
Mill Town
by Kerri Arsenault
Review
Trees in Trouble: Wildfires, Infestations, and Climate Change
by Daniel Mathews
Review
Land of Wondrous Cold
by Gillen D'Arcy Wood
Review
Fighting Pollution and Climate Change
by Richard W. Emory, Jr.
Review
The Story of More
by Hope Jahren
Review
The Bird Way
by Jennifer Ackerman
Review
Hacking Planet Earth
by Thomas M. Kostigen
Review
Tales of Two Planets
by John Freeman, Margaret Atwood, Arundhati Roy, et al
Review
The Green New Deal and Beyond
by Stan Cox
Review
Fathoms
by Rebecca Giggs
The Future We Choose
by Christiana Figueres and Tom Rivett-Carnac
The Ocean Reader
by Eric Paul Roorda
Review
Nature’s Explorers
by Natural History Natural History Museum
Review
Embracing Sufficiency
by Joseph Stadtmiller
Review
Life Changing: How Humans are Altering Life on Earth
by Helen Pilcher
Review
No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference
by Greta Thunberg
Review
Inevitably Toxic
by Brinda Sarathy, Vivien Hamilton and Janet Farrell Brodie
Review
Wildly Successful Farming
by Brian DeVore
Review
Coral Whisperers: Scientists on the Brink
by Irus Braverman
Review
Reef Life: An Underwater Memoir
by Callum Roberts
Review
Blowout
by Rachel Maddow
Review
Grinnell: America’s Environmental Pioneer
by John Taliaferro
Review
After Geoengineering: Climate Tragedy, Repair, and Restoration
by Holly Jean Buck
Review
The Last Butterflies
by Nick Haddad
Review
More From Less
by Andrew McAfee
Review
The Big Ones
by Dr Lucy Jones
Review
On Fire: The Burning Case for a Green New Deal
by Naomi Klein
Review
Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait
by Bathsheba Demuth
Review
Making Eden: How Plants Transformed a Barren Planet
by David Beerling
Review
In Oceans Deep: Courage, Innovation, and Adventure Beneath the Waves
by Bill Streever
Review
Alexander von Humboldt: How the Most Famous Scientist of the Romantic Age Found the Soul of Nature
by Maren Meinhardt
Review
The Geography of Risk
by Gilbert M. Gaul
Review
Rainforest: Dispatches from Earth’s Most Vital Frontlines
by Tony Juniper
Review
We Are the Weather
by Jonathan Safran Foer
Review
The Environment: A History of the Idea
by Paul Warde, Libby Robin and Sverker Sörlin
Review
Inconspicuous Consumption
by Tatiana Schlossberg
Review
The Mosquito: A Human History of Our Deadliest Predator
by Timothy C. Winegard
Review
Buzz, Sting, Bite: Why We Need Insects
by Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson
Review
End of the Megafauna: The Fate of the World’s Hugest, Fiercest, and Strangest Animals
by Peter Schouten, Ross D. E. MacPhee
Review
The Weather Machine: How We See Into the Future
by Andrew Blum
Review
Every Breath You Take: A User’s Guide to the Atmosphere
by Mark Broomfield
Review
The Ice at the End of the World: An Epic Journey Into Greenland’s Buried Past and Our Perilous Future
by Jon Gertner
Review
The Lives of Bees: The Untold Story of the Honey Bee in the Wild
by Thomas D. Seeley
Review
Shark Research: Emerging Technologies and Applications for the Field and Laboratory
by Jeffery C. Carrier, Michael R. Heithaus, and Colin A. Simpfendorfer
Review
Supernavigators: The Astounding New Science of How Animals Find Their Way
by David Barrie
Review
The End of Ice: Bearing Witness and Finding Meaning in the Path of Climate Disruption
by Dahr Jamail
Review
Earth-Shattering: Violent Supernovas, Galactic Explosions, Biological Mayhem, Nuclear Meltdowns, and Other Hazards to Life in Our Universe
by Bob Berman
Review
The Dreamt Land: Chasing Water and Dust Across California
by Mark Arax
Review
Innumerable Insects: The Story of the Most Diverse and Myriad Animals on Earth
by Michael S. Engel
Review
Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?
by Bill McKibben
Review
Choked: The Age of Air Pollution and the Fight for a Cleaner Future
by Beth Gardiner
Review
The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable
by Amitav Ghosh
Review
The Fate of Food: What We’ll Eat in a Bigger, Hotter, Smarter World
by Amanda Little
Review
Clearing the Air: The Beginning and the End of Air Pollution
by Tim Smedley
Review
The Uninhabitable Earth
by David Wallace-Wells
Review
Underland: A Deep Time Journey
by Robert Macfarlane
Review
Horizon
by Barry Lopez
Review
Citizen Science: Southeast Asia and American Power
by Janis L. Dickinson and Rick Bonney
Review
Manual for Survival
by Kate Brown
Review
Losing Earth: A Recent History
by Nathaniel Rich
Review
Burning Up: A Global History of Fossil Fuel Consumption
by Simon Pirani
Review
In Search of the Canary Tree: The Story of a Scientist, a Cypress, and a Changing World
by Lauren E. Oakes
Review
Never Home Alone: From Microbes to Millipedes, Camel Crickets, and Honeybees, the Natural History of Where We Live
by Rob Dunn
Review
A Bright Future: How Some Countries Have Solved Climate Change and the Rest Can Follow
by Joshua S. Goldstein and Staffan A. Qvist
Review
Extreme Conservation: Life at the Edges of the World
by Joel Berger
Review
Call of the Reed Warbler: A New Agriculture, A New Earth
by Charles Massy
Review
Around the World in 80 Trees
by Jonathan Drori
Review
The End of the End of the Earth: Essays
by Jonathan Franzen
Review
Barons of the Sea: And Their Race to Build the World’s Fastest Clipper Ship
by Steven Ujifusa
Review
The Fish Market: Inside the Big-Money Battle for the Ocean and Your Dinner Plate
by Lee Van Der Voo
Review
The Ends of the World: Volcanic Apocalypses, Lethal Oceans and Our Quest to Understand Earth’s Past Mass Extinctions
by Peter Brannen
Review
Liquid: The Delightful and Dangerous Substances That Flow Through Our Lives
by Mark Miodownik
Review
18 Miles: The Epic Drama of Our Atmosphere and Its Weather
by Christopher Dewdney
Review
Life on Earth
by David Attenborough
Review
Underbug: An Obsessive Tale of Termites and Technology
by Lisa Margonelli
Review
Brave New Arctic: The Untold Story of the Melting North
by Mark C. Serreze
Review
The Poisoned City: Flint’s Water and the American Urban Tragedy
by Anna Clark
Review
Buzz: The Nature and Necessity of Bees
by Thor Hanson
Review
The Wonderful Mr Willughby: The First True Ornithologist
by Tim Birkhead
Review
Human Errors: A Panorama of Our Glitches, from Pointless Bones to Broken Genes
by Nathan H Lents
Review
Evolutions: Fifteen Myths That Explain Our World
by Oren Harman
Review
Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore
by Elizabeth Rush
Review
Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past
by David Reich
Review
The Art and Science of Ernst Haeckel
by Rainer Willmann and Julia Voss
Review
Visionary Women: How Rachel Carson, Jane Jacobs, Jane Goodall, and Alice Waters Changed Our World
by Andrea Barnet
Review
The Many Lives of Carbon
by Dag Olav Hessen
Review
The Wizard and the Prophet: Two Remarkable Scientists and Their Dueling Visions to Shape Tomorrow’s World
by Charles C Mann
Review
Inheritors of the Earth: How Nature Is Thriving in an Age of Extinction
by Chris D. Thomas
Review
Rise of the Necrofauna: The Science, Ethics, and Risks of De-Extinction
by Britt Wray
Review
Scale: The Universal Laws of Life and Death in Organisms, Cities and Companies
by Geoffrey West
Review
Monarchs and Milkweed: A Migrating Butterfly, a Poisonous Plant, and Their Remarkable Story of Coevolution
by Anurag Agrawal
Review
Energy and Civilization: A History
by Vaclav Smil
Review
The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World
by Jeff Goodell
Review
11 Explorations into Life on Earth: Christmas Lectures from the Royal Institution
by Helen Scales
Review
Life through Time and Space
by Wallace Arthur, Stephen Arthur
Review
Darwin’s Backyard: How Small Experiments Led to a Big Theory
by James T. Costa
Review
Where The Animals Go: Tracking Wildlife with Technology in 50 Maps and Graphics
by James Cheshire, Oliver Uberti
Review
Woolly: The True Story of the Quest to Revive One of History’s Most Iconic Extinct Creatures
by Ben Mezrich
Review
Faster, Higher, Farther: The Inside Story of the Volkswagen Scandal
by Jack Ewing
Review
Other Minds: The Octopus and the Evolution of Intelligent Life
by Peter Godfrey-Smith
Review
Light Scattering by Ice Crystals: Fundamentals and Applications
by Kuo-Nan Liou, Ping Yang
Review
Finite Media: Environmental Implications of Digital Technologies
by Sean Cubitt
Review

Articles

Is Mining The Ocean Bottom For Metals Really Better Than Mining On Land?
Wood burning at home now biggest cause of UK particle pollution
Solar’s flexibility can be agriculture’s gain
Balloon test flight plan under fire over solar geoengineering fears
Carbon capture is vital to meeting climate goals, scientists tell green critics
‘Carbon-neutrality is a fairy tale’: how the race for renewables is burning Europe’s forests
Health crisis: up to a billion tonnes of waste potentially burned in the open every year
10 Exciting Engineering Milestones to Look for in 2021
We Are Entering The Greatest Technological Transition In History… And That Will Reshape Geopolitics
Year in review: Science and technology – Going viral
World’s Largest Insect Protein Farm Signals Future Of Food Supply
Seabird patrols to self-healing buildings: the 15 conservation stories to watch in 2021
3D Printers May Be Toxic To Humans
Anthropocene: human-made materials now weigh as much as all living biomass, say scientists
Seeking nontoxic coatings to keep ship hulls clean
Denmark to end new oil and gas exploration in North Sea
Climate change is best tackled through lots of small-scale solutions – here are nine reasons why
Scottish homes to be first in world to use 100% green hydrogen
One-fifth of ecosystems in danger of collapse – here’s what that might look like
Nuclear power: what the ‘green industrial revolution’ means for the next three waves of reactors
Increase in burning of plastic ‘driving up emissions from waste disposal’
Ten chemistry innovations that Iupac says could change the world
Guess Which Two Countries Produce The Most Plastic Trash Per Person?
Renewable energy defies Covid-19 to hit record growth in 2020
Water companies polluted beaches in England and Wales 3,000 times in a year
‘Wake up call’: Halting nature destruction key to avoiding pandemics, UN report finds
‘Zombie batteries’ causing hundreds of waste fires, experts warn
Inside Singapore’s huge bet on vertical farming
Forests That Survive Megafires Prove Good Management Trumps Climate Change
How to reverse global wildlife declines by 2050
Arctic warming: are record temperatures and fires arriving earlier than scientists predicted?
Sustainable cement: the simple switch that could massively cut global carbon emissions
What Contains 3 Times More Energy Than Gasoline, But Produces Zero CO2?
Heatwaves are an invisible killer – and the UK is woefully unprepared
Science has a new tool in the fight against climate change: good data
Biodiversity loss could be making us sick – here’s why
Undergraduate instruction, activities move online for fall
Our Electrical Device Addiction Is Killing The Planet. Here’s What We Can Do About It
Start-ups test ideas to suck CO2 from atmosphere
Coral reefs: climate change and pesticides could conspire to crash fish populations
Recyclers turn to AI robots after waste import bans
Australian Plant Species Face ‘Imminent Extinction’ From Invasive Pathogen
Why Boris’s zero emission aircraft may be mission impossible
AI’s carbon footprint problem
Sustainability in the Digital Age
Lightning is killing our forests – and it’s only going to get worse
The race is on to grow crops in seawater and feed millions
COVID-19 and Amazon Fires Choke the Lungs of Brazilians–and the Planet
Why the pandemic could slash the amount of plastic waste we recycle
Changing how we anesthetize people could have a surprising impact on the planet

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