Conservation of the Environment

Susan Knilans and Jacqueline Freeman are in love with bees. So in love that they observe their beestheir work, communication, seasonal activity and...

This trusted best-seller has been comprehensively updated and expanded to feature accounts of over 1,500 species and insect groups. Included are th...

Water scarcity is on everyones mind. Long taken for granted, water availability has become dependent on economics, politics, and peoples food and l...

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...