The “Cold Rush” is coming, professor Matthew Birkhold heralds, and its quarry is icebergs and the freshwater supplies they could ensure. "Chasing Icebergs", with its affable blend of history and predictions, probes the ins and outs... Read More

“Mass extinction and social collapse” are “a hard set of lemons to be making lemonade out of,” environmental activist Andrew Boyd admits. "I Want a Better Catastrophe" is his inventive, no-nonsense manual of constructive and... Read More

The temperate rain forest of the North Pacific coast is so valuable an ecosystem that it has been dubbed “the Amazon of the North.” It holds the world’s tallest trees—“carbon-capturing machines.” In "Canopy of Titans", Paul... Read More

It may feel like extinction stories dominate the discourse, but environmental philosopher Christopher J. Preston elects to focus on positive trajectories in "Tenacious Beasts", a heartening roster of rewilding projects and spontaneous... Read More

Dave Dempsey spent more than three decades working in a range of environmental-policy roles in Michigan, and those experiences inform his new essay collection "Half Wild". The stories in the book all discuss the intersection of human... Read More

In "The Remarkable Reefs of Cuba", David E. Guggenheim details the global loss of coral reefs, showing how Cuba, with its astounding contrasts and unrelenting hardships, is home to the healthiest coral reefs remaining. As compelling as... Read More

Descriptions of nature as competitive (Charles Darwin) and “red in tooth and claw” (Alfred, Lord Tennyson) shaped the way people perceive it today. "Sweet in Tooth and Claw" debunks such concepts to reveal that, in fact, cooperation... Read More

“We are all apocalyptic now”: such is the solemn, realistic conclusion that Wes Jackson and Robert Jensen reach in "An Inconvenient Apocalypse", a hard-hitting philosophical reckoning with climate breakdowns, and with the social... Read More