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Chasing Icebergs

by Rebecca Foster

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

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Canopy of Titans

by Rebecca Foster

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

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Tenacious Beasts

by Rebecca Foster

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

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Half Wild

by Jeff Fleischer

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

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