"The Atlas of Disappearing Places" is a virtual tour of coastal regions that are vulnerable to climate change. “We come from the sea,” it contends, so protecting the sea is a collective responsibility. Acidification, declining fish... Read More
Everything is connected, says wildlife journalist Douglas Chadwick in "Four-Fifths a Grizzly". From the minuscule to the large scale, the book explores how knowledge of these connections can help us to reverse the land degradation and... Read More
Chris Salisbury’s "Wild Nights Out" is a fun, inventive adventure guide about helping children explore nature after dark. This comprehensive handbook is loaded with activities and information to enrich children’s experiences of the... Read More
Pandemic parenting. Zoom meetings. Virtual school. If you’ve coped with looking at devices all year, Katy Bowman’s "Grow Wild" will strike you as a gentle, cautionary guide about kids’ “super-sedentary” environments, and how... Read More
The nature essays of Peter Wohlleben’s "The Heartbeat of Trees" beckon people into the woods, for their own good and for the good of trees. A follow-up to The Hidden Life of Trees, this collection showcases the interconnectedness of... Read More
Marc Hamer’s "Seed to Dust" is a meditative account of a year in the twelve-acre British garden he tended for decades. The seasons turn with comforting regularity, assuaging the ache of aging and bad memories. Hamer’s account of his... Read More
Human beings have been obsessed with the color blue for thousands of years, and in "Blue", science journalist Kai Kupferschmidt travels the globe to discover why it has always been so special. Strange as it may seem, science is only... Read More
Clever prose and gifted storytelling enliven Eli J. Knapp’s "Dead Serious", a weighty book about how species are being steamrolled toward extinction that nonetheless argues that a better future is possible. Knapp, a self-branded... Read More