Conservation of the Environment

The story behind the historic Mineral King Valley case, which reveals how the Sierra Club battled Disneys ski resort development and launched a new...

Talking lions, philosophical bears, very hungry caterpillars, wise spiders, altruistic trees, companionable moles, urbane elephants: this is the ma...

LONGLISTED FOR THE JAMES CROPPER WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR WRITING ON CONSERVATION. How should we restore nature and species, and why does it matter? W...

A groundbreaking ecocritical exploration of American art that examines the complex and evolving relationship between art and the environment Public...

At a time of unparalleled environmental change, there has never been a greater need for new ways of defending nature. In this forward-thinking work...

This accessible and engagingly written book describes how national and international scientific monitoring programmes brought to light our present ...

Endless sky, rock, and water: Where the arid grasslands of southern Argentina meet the Atlantic Ocean, the wild winds and waters of Patagonia have ...

A wonderland of sky, water, grass, and birdsong, the Ibera marshlands of Corrientes Province are the preeminent wildlife habitat in Argentina and a...

So, this dude comes up from the city to take an eco-writing workshop at a little college in way-northern Vermont, where I happen to teach watershed...

Where the windswept Patagonian steppe meets the Andes, and the massive unclimbed south wall of Cerro San Lorenzo looks down on the Lacteo Valley: P...

It seems that forests have never been more in the news than they are today. The part played by the tropical forests in sustaining the worlds climat...

In 2013 my wife, Jeanne, and I, she in her late sixties, I in my early seventies, set out to fulfill our long held dream of living in the woods for...

Are we deranged? The acclaimed Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh argues that future generations may well think so. How else to explain our imaginative f...

Desde el inicio de la contienda en 2011, el caos, la violencia y la destruccion se han aduenado de Siria. A los miles de muertos y millones de desp...

While many books have examined the broader topic of military conflict, most neglect to focus on damage military violence inflicts on regionaland gl...

2017 INDIE BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD FINALISTA rallying cry . . . Everyone who is concerned about the welfare of all species, including human beings. ...

Counting Bounty highlights a widespread blindspot: most of us overlook land and its power to twist an economy. Householders typically spend most of...

On September 4, 1915, hundreds of people gathered in Estes Park, Colorado, to celebrate the creation of Rocky Mountain National Park. This new natu...

This stunning depiction of geology in Namibia combines searingly beautiful photography with clear explanations of how the varied landscapes formed....

A vibrant history of English landscape preservation over the last 150 years, told through the lives of four remarkable women   In Britain today, a ...

This is an engaging handbook to launch a movement of individuals to tackle global warming by simply retooling our daily actions. Easy proactive ste...

Join award-winning author and photographer Carol Walker as she tells the story, in words and photographs, of the wild horses of Adobe Town herd of ...

The Important Plant Areas of Mozambique is an assessment of 50 critical sites for plant conservation, based on the Mozambique TIPAs project run in ...

The worlds wildlife is in crisis, and the next ten years are critical. The New Big 5 brings together more than 145 of the worlds greatest wildlife...

The national park idea first emerged in the United States with the establishment of Yellowstone in 1872. Today there are at least 7,000 national pa...