The environment

When climate scientist Joelle Gergis set to work on the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Sixth Assessment Report, the research she encountered kept her up at night.

Affectionately known as the Joyful Vegan, Colleen Patrick-Goudreau has been a leading voice in compassionate living for over two decades, guiding countless people to achieve lasting health and purpose.

Affectionately known as the Joyful Vegan, Colleen Patrick-Goudreau has been a leading voice in compassionate living for over two decades, guiding countless people to achieve lasting health and purpose.

Climate tech is critical for averting planetary chaos.

The shocking story of how PFAS, the ';forever chemicals' found in everyday household products, poisoned an entire nationPoisoning the Well draws on original, shoe-leather reporting in four highly contaminated towns and damning documents from the polluters' own files to trace an ugly history of corporate greed and devastated human lives.

Competing visions of the future are at the heart of debates on climate change.

Featured on NPR's Living on EarthForeword Reviews' Book of the DayFood Tank's Fall Reading Recommendation';A deeply meditative book in the vein of Robin Wall Kimmerer's Braiding Sweetgrass.

In the Shadow of the Seawall journeys to the low-lying lands of Guyana and the Maldives to grapple with the existential dilemma of seawalls alongside struggles to resist displacement.

Competing visions of the future are at the heart of debates on climate change.

By the 1840s, many Americans recognized that the institution of slavery was destroying Southern landscapes while threatening to expand into the West.

This book focuses on issues related to a suite of technologies known as "e;Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS),"e; which can be used to capture and store underground large amounts of industrial CO2 emissions.

Free-flowing rivers in the United States are an endangered species.

The shocking story of how PFAS, the ';forever chemicals' found in everyday household products, poisoned an entire nationPoisoning the Well draws on original, shoe-leather reporting in four highly contaminated towns and damning documents from the polluters' own files to trace an ugly history of corporate greed and devastated human lives.

States have tremendous power to protect their residents' health.

In 2000, a transformative climate-driven ';megadrought' swept over the Colorado River watershed.

This book takes readers to Antarctica, the Arctic and the high mountains, to see what is happening to their ice, snow and permafrost.

This book takes readers to Antarctica, the Arctic and the high mountains, to see what is happening to their ice, snow and permafrost.

The essential field guide to all of Europe's major habitatsvisually stunning, meticulously researched, and packed with invaluable informationEurope is a place of natural wonders, from the icy expanses of the tundra to the arid beauty of deserts and the lush vibrancy of rainforests.

This book provides an overview of the geopolitical context and climate change risk profile of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Region.

This book provides an in-depth analysis of youth's environmental activism in urban Indonesia.

A marvelously illustrated look at the life of the whaleWhales are the majestic giants of the ocean, yet much of their world remains a mystery to us.

Nonrenewable energy resources, comprising fossil fuels and uranium, are not ran- domly distributed within the Earth's crust.

As environmental destruction becomes more extreme around the planet, the way humans experience the natural world is changing, giving rise to more frequent and intense experiences of eco-anxiety.

As environmental destruction becomes more extreme around the planet, the way humans experience the natural world is changing, giving rise to more frequent and intense experiences of eco-anxiety.

Flooding in California.

This timely book examines the global trend of women's economic empowerment as a critical pathway to achieving Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 5: gender equality.

The origin of agroforestry practices-growing trees and shrubs with food and fruit crops and grasses is traditional and very old-but the science of agroforestry is new.

With their towering, cinnamon-colored trunks and dusky green canopies, ponderosa pine has long been a charismatic icon of the American West.

The origin of agroforestry practices-growing trees and shrubs with food and fruit crops and grasses is traditional and very old-but the science of agroforestry is new.

Featured on NPR's Living on EarthForeword Reviews' Book of the DayFood Tank's Fall Reading Recommendation';A deeply meditative book in the vein of Robin Wall Kimmerer's Braiding Sweetgrass.

From a #1 New York Times-bestselling author, "e;a heartwarming tale of bonding between people and animals"e; (Booklist).

Conservators as first responders in a world where our cultural heritage is increasingly at riskConservation can be understood as a form of knowing; conservators extract meaning about the past from what remains, while noting what is missing and sometimes repairing it.

For most of Elizabeth Sawin's career, she was not a multisolver.

In an innovative fusion of labor and environmental history, Making a Living examines work as a central part of Americans' evolving relationship with nature, revealing the unexpected connections between the fight for workers' rights and the rise of the modern environmental movement.

An increasing amount of usable space on our planet is crowded by humans.

An increasing amount of usable space on our planet is crowded by humans.

Mastering climate change has been recognised as a major challenge for the current decade.

America was built on white pine.

For decades, we've been promised that a hydrogen economy is just around the corner: a high-tech Eden in which our cars, homes, and industries would be powered not by fossil fuels but by hydrogen from pollution-free sources.

For decades, we've been promised that a hydrogen economy is just around the corner: a high-tech Eden in which our cars, homes, and industries would be powered not by fossil fuels but by hydrogen from pollution-free sources.

Disasters are all around us.

The global development community is teeming with different ideas and interventions to improve the lives of the world's poorest people.

Each year, thousands of tourists visit Mount Mitchell, the most prominent feature of North Carolinas Black Mountain range and the highest peak in the eastern United States.

On an August night in 1893, the deadliest hurricane in South Carolina history struck the Lowcountry, killing thousandsalmost all African American.

The biggest challenge of the twenty-first century is to bring the effects of public life into relation with the intractable problem of global atmospheric change.

The biggest challenge of the twenty-first century is to bring the effects of public life into relation with the intractable problem of global atmospheric change.

In the Shenandoah Valley and Peninsula Campaigns of 1862, Union and Confederate soldiers faced unfamiliar and harsh environmental conditions strange terrain, tainted water, swarms of flies and mosquitoes, interminable rain and snow storms, and oppressive heat which contributed to escalating disease and diminished morale.

Take a walk on the beach with three coastal experts who reveal the secrets and the science of the North Carolina shoreline.

The mountain chain known as the Blue Ridge traces a 550-mile arc through Pennsylvania, Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, South Carolina, and Georgia.