Pollution and threats to the environment

A profound, powerful and moving collection of 100 letters from around the world responding to the climate crisis, introduced by Emma Thompson and lovingly illustrated by CILIP award winner Jackie Morris.

Thirty years ago Bill McKibben offered one of the earliest warnings about climate change.

Dieser Tagungsband dokumentiert das Symposium Dürnstein 2024 zum Thema WAS WERDEN WIR MORGEN ESSEN?

A distinguished expert offers a dazzling preview of the cars of the future, while exploring the science and politics behind climate change.

The UK has declared a 'climate emergency' and pledged to become carbon neutral by 2050.

Now in paperback, with a new foreword by Fred Krupp, an expert's illuminating preview of the cleaner, lighter, smarter cars of the future.

Everyone agrees we need to slash global greenhouse emissions.

Not since Jacques Cousteau has anyone brought us the sense of the ocean as our home .

A Guardian 'Top 10 Nature Memoirs' pick'Poetic and heartful' GuardianIcelandic author and activist Andri Snaer Magnason's 'Letter to the Future', an extraordinary and moving eulogy for the lost Okjokull glacier, made global news and was shared by millions.

Discover the fascinating world of trees with this comprehensive tree identification guide book, combining practical dendrology knowledge with professional tree care techniques.

Dieser praktische Leitfaden bietet eine fundierte Einführung in die Dendrologie und vermittelt wichtiges Fachwissen zur Bestimmung von Baumarten.

Es handelt sich um einen postapokalyptischen Science-Fiction-Roman.

As climate becomes less predictable and extreme weather events become more frequent, there is an urgent need for support that will help communities to prepare and adapt to changing conditions.

Global climate change disproportionately affects rural people and indigenous groups, but their rights, knowledge, and interests concerning it are generally unacknowledged.

Hay un hilo que conecta todo lo que existe: la trama de la naturaleza, la sociedad y la cultura.

Les Québécois connaissent le climat le plus turbulent au monde.

Great strides have been made in improving sanitation in many developing countries.

El nuevo libro de Amitav Ghosh, una poderosa obra de historia, ensayo, testimonio y polémica, remonta nuestra crisis planetaria contemporánea al descubrimiento del Nuevo Mundo y la ruta marítima hacia el Océano Índico.

Part historical narrative, part travelogue through the wilds of the West and part environmental polemic, 'Selling Your Father's Bones' is a thrilling journey through the history and wilderness of the stunning area of landscape that is Continental USA.

We are used to hearing that the climate crisis is serious, but still tractable if we start acting on it soon.

We are used to hearing that the climate crisis is serious, but still tractable if we start acting on it soon.

Ever wondered how vaccines work, why whales strand themselves or if luck exists?

In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement.

'It is a violent overture, like the opening notes of an opera about war, a war between humans and the land.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WATERSTONES DEBUT FICTION PRIZE 2022FINALIST FOR THE BARNES & NOBLE DISCOVER PRIZE 2022FINALIST FOR THE URSULA LE GUIN PRIZE FOR FICTION 2022WATERSTONES AND ESQUIRE BEST BOOKS OF 2022For fans of Cloud Atlas and Station Eleven, Sequoia Nagamatsu's debut is a wildly imaginative, genre-bending work spanning generations across the globe as humanity struggles to rebuild itself in the aftermath of a climate plague.

Society and democracy are ever threatened by the fall of fact.

It's in our food, our cosmetics, our fuel and our bodies.

'Brilliant and fundamental, this is the necessary book about our prime global emergency' Ian McEwan The news is full of hotly debated and divergent claims about the impacts and risks of climate change.

With Broeker as his guide, award-winning science writer Robert Kunzig looks back at Earth's volatile climate history so as to shed light on the challenges ahead.

What can freedom really mean?

Understand the facts about climate change and discover what we can do to improve the human impact on our environment.

'Both a work of lyrical imagination and a warning about the dangers we will face unless we take immediate action' New Yorker 'An artist's ardent plea for change' Kirkus This earth that we love is in grave danger because of us.

Birthright citizenship has a deep and contentious history in the United States, one often hard to square in a country that prides itself on being "e;a nation of immigrants.

Welcome to planet Earth, where wonderful things are happening.

An essential overview of the problems of our world today -- and how we should prepare for tomorrow -- from the world's leading public intellectualWe have two choices.

Though the scientific community largely agrees that climate change is underway, debates about this issue remain fiercely polarized.

Charlie and Parker are punks by night, biohackers by day, living in the stuttering decay of near-future climate-collapse London.

Our planet is in trouble.

Marek Kohn - 'one of the best science writers we have' (AC Grayling) - paints an important and eye-opening portrait of Britain and Ireland after a century of global warming.

Though the scientific community largely agrees that climate change is underway, debates about this issue remain fiercely polarized.

Reveals how we can learn from the intelligent communities of trees and plants*; Shares breakthrough research on how tree and plant communities function, revealing a holistic, interconnected, communal, and sentient new world *; Examines the attributes we share with trees and plants and how the behaviors of altruism, cooperation, and community are genetically coded in our beings *; Looks at how to learn to see, think, imagine, and live with holistic eco-centric awareness and the benefits that come from working with our plant allies Breakthrough research is not only revealing a brilliant green world with amazing attributes like dispersed intelligence but also that humanity, like the tree and plant kingdom, thrives on innate cooperation, sharing, altruism, and community.

In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement.

Simple recipes to make mealtimes fun for even the fussiest eaters!

If you had a trillion dollars and a year to spend it for the good of the world and the advancement of science, what would you do?

Because We Say So is Noam Chomsky's essential counter punch to American hegemony.

The perfect gift for nature lovers and weather watchers.

Discover what you can do to save the planet from plastic.

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.

The COVID-19 pandemic gives an opportunity to relaunch global economic systems with a better balance between the social and environmental dimensions.

'An inspiring rallying cry for activists everywhere to work together to build a just, ecosocialist future' - Grace BlakeleyTime is up.