Conservation of the Environment

These cats are like emissaries from the raw landscapes out West, probing the rest of the nation, showing us where patches of wildness remain, and b...

Rebecca Barnes outlines fifty ways in which you, your congregation, and your local community can help fight global warming and enjoy participation ...

In Eating the Ocean Elspeth Probyn investigates the profound importance of the ocean and the future of fish and human entanglement. On her ethnogra...

Written with clarity, tenacity, humor, and warmth, A Hundred Little Pieces on the End of the World attempts to find tolerable ethical positions in ...

Many traditional approaches to rural land management are strictly sectoral, with a rigid introspective focus. Consequently the impact of silo-drive...

A fascinating history of the carbon footprint of our concrete world -- from ancient Roman architecture to urban cityscapes -- and the trouble it sp...

In 1999, off the coast of the Pacific Northwest, the first grey whale in seven decades was killed by Makah whalers. The hunt marked the return of a...

In Underland, Robert Macfarlane delivers an epic exploration of the Earths underworlds as they exist in myth, literature, memory, and the land itse...

Intellectually rich, intensely personal, and beautifully written, Tracks and Shadows is both an absorbing autobiography of a celebrated field biolo...

A leading-edge guide to thinking about and planning for twenty-first-century cities in all their social, political, and ecological complexity The ...

This book tells the sweeping story of the role that East African savannas played in human evolution, how people, livestock, and wildlife interact i...

The Green movement in America has lost its way. Pew polling reveals that the environment is one of the two things about which Republicans and Democ...

Many of the men and women doing todays most consequential environmental workrestoring Americas grasslands, wildlife, soil, rivers, wetlands, and oc...

People are inseparable from natural ecosystems, and understanding how people think about, experience, and interact with nature is crucial for promo...

In me, there is the red of miry clay, the brown of spring floods, the gold of ripening tobacco. All of these hues are me; I am, in the deepest sens...

An affectionate but meticulously researched history of one of the most beautiful and best-loved corners of England Crosthwaite Parish, nestling de...

It's hard to believe that you have the power to save the world, but it's true! We'll show you how to harness your inner hero with loads of awesome ...

Forests are restless. When a tree dies or a new one sprouts, the forest that includes it shifts. When new trees sprout in the same direction, the w...

The time for action is now.The fate of the world''s coasts rests on a knife edge as global warming melts ice sheets and glaciers from the Alps to t...

**A TIMES, SUNDAY TIMES AND GUARDIAN ''BOOK OF 2021''** ''Important, necessary, urgent and phenomenally interesting'' HELEN MACDONALD, New York Tim...

While tropical rainforests have received much conservation attention and support for their protection, temperate and boreal rainforests have been l...

Aldo Leopold and Ed Ricketts are giants in the history of environmental awareness. They were born ten years and only about 200 miles apart and died...

It was the first time I'd seen what the ocean may have looked like thousands of years ago. That's conservation scientist Gregory S. Stone talking a...

Native only to the California Channel Islands, the island fox is the smallest canid in North America. Populations on four of the islands were threa...

Aldo Leopold: A Fierce Green Fire (OUP; 1999) remains the only biography for the general public on Leopold. It was praised for being concise and re...

When Hazel Wolf died, at the age of 101, more than nine hundred of her friends -- from the governor of Washington to union organizers, from birdwat...

FINALIST FOR THE PULITZER PRIZE IN GENERAL NONFICTIONWINNER OF THE NATIONAL OUTDOOR BOOK AWARDHailed as deeply felt (New York Times), a revelation ...

Being among bees is a full-body experience, Mark Winston writesfrom the low hum of tens of thousands of insects and the pungent smell of honey and ...

In response to the growing scale and complexity of environmental threats, this volume collects articles, essays, personal narratives, and poems by ...

The international legal framework for valuing the carbon stored in forests, known as 'Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation'...