Environment category: 6530 books
Yellowstone Grizzly Bears
Ecology and Conservation of an Icon of Wildness
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
This book examines the rich history of grizzly bear management in Yellowstone National Park and explores the challenges of managing an apex predator in the face of climate change and increasing human presence in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem.
by Health Research Staff
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2012
One of the biggest problems in the diets of most people today is the fact that so much of our food consumption comes from processed meats and packaged foods. Not only will this cause the body’s natural pH balance to shift, setting you up for problems, but it’s also going to cause you to place...
Dodging Extinction
Power, Food, Money, and the Future of Life on Earth
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Paleobiologist Anthony D. Barnosky weaves together evidence from the deep past and the present to alert us to the looming Sixth Mass Extinction and to offer a practical, hopeful plan for avoiding it. Writing from the front lines of extinction research, Barnosky tells the overarching story of geologic...
Climate Justice
Hope, Resilience, and the Fight for a Sustainable Future
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2018
The antidote for your climate change paralysis. -Sierra Magazine
An urgent call to arms by one of the most important voices in the international fight against climate change, sharing inspiring stories and offering vital lessons for the path forward.
Holding her first grandchild in her...
Eaarth
Making a Life on a Tough New Planet
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2010
"Read it, please. Straight through to the end. Whatever else you were planning to do next, nothing could be more important." —Barbara Kingsolver
Twenty years ago, with The End of Nature, Bill McKibben offered one of the earliest warnings about global warming. Those warnings went...
The God Species
Saving the Planet in the Age of Humans
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2011
We humans are the God species, both the creators and destroyers of life on this planet. As we enter a new geological era - the Anthropocene - our collective power now overwhelms and dominates the major forces of nature.
But from the water cycle to the circulation of nitrogen and carbon through...
Whole Earth Discipline
Why Dense Cities, Nuclear Power, Transgenic Crops, RestoredWildlands, and Geoeng ineering Are Necessary
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2010
An icon of the environmental movement outlines a provocative approach for reclaiming our planet
According to Stewart Brand, a lifelong environmentalist who sees everything in terms of solvable design problems, three profound transformations are under way on Earth right now. Climate change is...
by William H. Calvin
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2010
Passionately written yet thoroughly grounded in the latest climate science, "Global Fever" delivers both a stark warning and an ambitious blueprint for saving the future of the planet. Photos.
by Farley Mowat
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2015
This international bestseller that changed the way we look at wolves “opens new horizons in understanding animal nature and intelligence” (Newsday).
In 1948, Farley Mowat landed in the far north of Manitoba, Canada, a young biologist sent to investigate the region’s dwindling population...
A Country Year
Living the Questions
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
A “delightful, witty” memoir about starting over as a beekeeper in the Ozarks (Library Journal).
Alone on a small Missouri farm after a thirty-year marriage, Sue Hubbell found a new love—of the winged, buzzing variety. Left with little but the commercial beekeeping and honey-producing...
by Rachel Carson
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2011
National Book Award Winner and New York Times Bestseller: Explore earth’s most precious, mysterious resource—the ocean—with the author of Silent Spring.
With more than one million copies sold, Rachel Carson’s The Sea Around Us became a cultural phenomenon when first published in...
Fatal Forecast
An Incredible True Tale of Disaster and Survival at Sea
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2007
A true story of catastrophe and survival at sea, Fatal Forecast is a spellbinding moment-by-moment account of seventy-two hours in the lives of eight young fishermen, some of whom would never set foot on dry land again.
On the morning of November 21, 1980, two small Massachusetts lobster boats...
The Great Derangement
Climate Change and the Unthinkable
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2016
Are we deranged? The acclaimed Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh argues that future generations may well think so. How else to explain our imaginative failure in the face of global warming? In his first major book of nonfiction since In an Antique Land, Ghosh examines our inability—at the level of literature,...
Changes in the Land
Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Winner of the Francis Parkman Prize
Changes in the Land offers an original and persuasive interpretation of the changing circumstances in New England's plant and animal communities that occurred with the shift from Indian to European dominance. With the tools of both historian and ecologist,...