Issues mankind faces today are global warming, climate change, widespread pollution of natural elements, environmental degradation and resource depletion.
From the author of New York Times bestseller The New New Deal, a groundbreaking piece of reportage from the trenches of the next climate war: the fight to fix our food system.
In the scramble to claim water rights in the West during the fevered days of early emigration and expansion, running out of water was rarely a concern, and the dam building fever that transformed the West in the 19th and 20th centuries created a map of the region that may be unsustainable.
In the scramble to claim water rights in the West during the fevered days of early emigration and expansion, running out of water was rarely a concern, and the dam building fever that transformed the West in the 19th and 20th centuries created a map of the region that may be unsustainable.
A partir de cómo se ha modelado la relación entre epistemología, territorio y profundidad, Ficciones geológicas propone una lectura material del extractivismo que ha marcado la historia nacional.
Interviews with bankers, civic leaders, politicians, and architects provide the basis for this searching analysis of the ways in which the physical arrangement of land expresses American ideals, assumptions, and beliefs.
In 2001, Kenneth Deffeyes made a grim prediction: world oil production would reach a peak within the next decade--and there was nothing anyone could do to stop it.
Imagine one day you receive a letter in the mail that informs you that a large energy company is planning to build a massive pipeline through your property.
Imagine one day you receive a letter in the mail that informs you that a large energy company is planning to build a massive pipeline through your property.
RECIPIENT of the Mom's Choice Award® Gold — Honoring ExcellenceFINALIST — 2026 Literary Global Children's Book Awards (Nonfiction Category) WINNER of the Literary Titan Gold Book Award From the So You Want To Be A… Series — 2026 Purple Dragonfly Book Awards, Grand Prize WinnerWhat does it really take to become a surgeon — not in the movies, but in real life?
RECIPIENT of the Mom's Choice Award® Gold — Honoring ExcellenceWINNER of the Literary Titan Gold Book Award From the So You Want To Be A… Series — 2026 Purple Dragonfly Book Awards, Grand Prize Winner What if the person who saves someone's life twenty years from now is sitting in a classroom right now, wondering what it actually takes to become a doctor?
WINNER of the Literary Titan Gold Book Award From the So You Want To Be A… Series — 2026 Purple Dragonfly Book Awards, Grand Prize Winner The pathogen is identified.
WINNER — 2026 Purple Dragonfly Book Award (1st Place): Animals/Pets · Green Books/Environmental · STEMRECIPIENT of the Mom's Choice Award® Gold — Honoring ExcellenceWINNER of the Literary Titan Gold Book Award WINNER — 2026 PenCraft Seasonal Book Award, Best Children's Book (Preteen) From the So You Want To Be A… Series — 2026 Purple Dragonfly Book Awards, Grand Prize Winner Seventy-one percent of this planet is ocean, and most of it has never been seen by human eyes.
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2026 WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR CONSERVATION WRITING'The Indiana Jones of trees' GuardianWhen the forest breathes out, we breathe in.
WINNER of the Literary Titan Gold Book AwardFrom the So You Want To Be A… Series — 2026 Purple Dragonfly Book Awards, Grand Prize Winner The call can come at any hour.
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Braiding Sweetgrass, an inspiring vision of how to reorient our lives around gratitude, reciprocity and communityAs Indigenous scientist and author of Braiding Sweetgrass Robin Wall Kimmerer harvests serviceberries alongside the birds, she considers the ethic of reciprocity that lies at the heart of the gift economy.
A radical new history of energy and humanity's insatiable need for resources that will change the way we talk about climate change *Winner of a Nouvel Observateur Award, a Fondation pour l' cologie politique Award, the Prix du jury Turgot and the Prix du S nat du livre d histoire 2025**Selected as an Economist and Financial Times Book of the Year*It has become habitual to think of our relationship with energy as one of transition: with wood superseded by coal, coal by oil, oil by nuclear and then at some future point all replaced by green sources.
Overseas Press Club Award Winner 2016A shocking investigative journey into the way the resource trade wreaks havoc on Africa, 'The Looting Machine' explores the dark underbelly of the global economy.
This latest volume in the New Naturalist series provides a comprehensive study of wildlife conservation in Britain, concentrating on events in the last 30 years.
Este libro representa una valiosa aportación al inventario documentado de las memorias del agua en Baja California Sur, en particular del puerto de La Paz.
Es fundamental estudiar y comprender la montaña andina, especialmente por su importancia geopolítica nacional e internacional en materia económica, cultural y ambiental.
"Hacer un balance crítico de los diez años de vigencia de la Ley Orgánica de Régimen de Soberanía Alimentaria es uno de los objetivos principales que han propuesto los autores de este libro.
Esta obra presenta una discusion sobre los retos que existen hoy para construir una vision integral de desarrollo dentro de las poblaciones rurales que habitan el Paramo de Santurban, bajo las dificultades que ha traido el proceso de delimitacion del paramo y la consecuente prohibicion de la agricultura.
La cambiante naturaleza del escenario internacional se perfila de manera cada vez más acentuada en torno a los recursos naturales esenciales para el desarrollo como elementos de poder.
Smartphone, Laptop, E-Auto: Viele Dinge in unserem Alltag benotigen fur Herstellung und Betrieb Rohstoffe, die keineswegs unbegrenzt zur Verfugung stehen oder deren Gewinnung auch aus ethischer Sicht problematisch ist.
