by Margaret Lowman

"Canopy Meg" takes us on an adventure into the "eighth continent" of the world's treetops, along her journey as a tree scientist, and into climate action

by Paul R. Krugman

Many of the pieces (in this book) are hard-hitting arguments against zombie ideas -- ideas that should have been killed by evidence, but refuse to die.  Zombie ideas, Krugman asserts, are put forth by influential people who move in circles in which repeating such ideas is a badge of seriousness, an assertion of tribal identity.

by Chase Purdy

The trillion-dollar meat industry is one of our greatest environmental hazards; it pollutes more than all the world's fossil-fuel-powered cars. Global animal agriculture is responsible for deforestation, soil erosion, and more emissions than air travel, paper mills, and coal mining combined.

by Annie Proulx

Proulx brings her witness and research to the subject of wetlands and the vitally important role they play in preserving the environment. Fens, bogs, swamps, and marine estuaries are crucial to the earth's survival, and Proulx documents their systemic destruction in pursuit of profit. A sobering look at the degradation of wetlands over centuries and the serious ecological consequences.

 

Tells the story, decade by decade -- looking at four clocks that move at different speeds: the reality of climate change itself; the scientific consensus about it, which always lags reality; public opinion and political will, which lag further still; and, perhaps most important, business and finance. 

by Anne E. Tazewell

A back-packing nature-loving world traveler, Anne discovered her professional passion after parenting three children and going to college in her mid-forties. Her calling to reduce the use of oil to mitigate the worst of what is to come with climate change is what brought her father back into her life decades after his death. A chance radio interview began a quest to understand his life and in turn better understand her own.

by Elena Conis

The chemical compound DDT first earned fame during World War II by wiping out insects that caused disease and boosting Allied forces to victory. Americans granted it a hero's homecoming, spraying it on everything from crops and livestock to cupboards and curtains. Then, in 1972, it was banned in the US. But decades after that, a cry arose to demand its return.

Leave it as it is : a Journey Through Theodore Roosevelt's American Wilderness
 

by David Gessner

"Leave it as it is," Theodore Roosevelt announced while viewing the Grand Canyon for the first time. "The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it." Roosevelt's rallying cry signaled the beginning of an environmental fight that still wages today. 

by Adam Higginbotham

Early in the morning of April 26, 1986, Reactor Number Four of the Chernobyl Atomic Energy Station exploded, triggering history's worst nuclear disaster. Since then, Chernobyl has become lodged in the collective nightmares of the world: shorthand for the spectral horrors of radiation poisoning, for a dangerous technology slipping its leash, for ecological fragility, and for what can happen when a dishonest and careless state endangers its citizens and the entire world.

by John Clayton

At stake in 1896 was the new idea that some landscapes should be collectively, permanently owned by a democratic government. Although many people today think of public lands as an American birthright, their very existence was then in doubt, and dependent on a merger of the talents of two men. 

by Keith O'Brien

The staggering, hidden story of an unlikely band of mothers who discovered the deadly secret of Love Canal -- a picturesque middle-class hamlet by Niagara Falls -- and exposed one of America's most devastating environmental disasters.

by Douglas Brinkley

Acclaimed presidential historian Douglas Brinkley chronicles the rise of environmental activism during the Long Sixties (1960-1973), telling the story of an indomitable generation that saved the natural world under the leadership of John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, and Richard Nixon.

Simply Climate Change
by Dorling Kindersley Ltd

Explore and understand the intriguing science behind climate change. Gain valuable knowledge on why climate change is occurring -- one of the planet's most challenging issues -- and analyze possible solutions.

by Hope Jahren

Jahren celebrates the long history of our enterprising spirit -- which has tamed wild crops, cured diseases, and sent us to the moon -- but also shows how that spirit has created excesses that are quickly warming our planet to dangerous levels.

This Land : How Cowboys, Capitalism, and Corruption are Ruining the American West
 

by Christopher Ketcham
 

by Ben Rawlence

To document global warming, Rawlence set out to trace the tree line, the area beyond which trees are not able to grow: "a transition zone between ecosystems" that has moved northward, "no longer a matter of inches per century," but rather "hundreds of feet every year."

by Dahr Jamail

 For the Indigenous people of the world, radical alteration of the planet, and of life itself, is a story that is many generations long. They have had to adapt, to persevere, and to be courageous and resourceful in the face of genocide and destruction--and their experience has given them a unique understanding of civilizational devastation.

by William MacAskill

The fate of the world is in our hands. Humanity's written history spans only five thousand years. Our yet-unwritten future could last for millions more -- or it could end tomorrow. Astonishing numbers of people could lead lives of great happiness or unimaginable suffering, or never live at all, depending on what we choose to do today.