Conservation of the Environment

The grim history of Nauru Island, a small speck in the Pacific Ocean halfway between Hawaii and Australia, represents a larger story of environment...

Robert Thayer brings the concepts and promises of the growing bioregional movement to a wide audience in a book that passionately urges us to disco...

The result of a lifetime in the field and in the classroom, "Chance and Change" challenges many of the tenets of establishment ecology. Charging th...

The rural west is at a crossroads, and the Sierra Nevada is at the center of this social and economic change. The Sierra Nevada landscape has alway...

A vivid chapter in the saga of the California water wars, "The River Stops Here" documents state and federal plans to flood the largest, most ferti...

A pioneer in international conservation and wildlife ecology, Raymond Dasmann published his first book, the influential text "Environmental Conserv...

Candace Slater takes us on a journey into the Amazon that will forever change our ideas about one of the most written-about, filmed, and fought-ove...

Treeshrews suffer from chronic mistaken identity: they are not shrews, and most are not found in trees. These squirrel-sized, brownish mammals with...

Two of the world's most pressing needs--biodiversity conservation and agricultural development in the Third World--are addressed in Karl S. Zimmere...

One of the most critical environmental challenges facing both Californians and Australians in the 1860s involved the aftermath of the gold rushes. ...

Who speaks for the trees, the water, the soil, and the air in American government today? Which agencies confront environmental problems, and how do...

This gripping portrait of environmental politics chronicles the devastating destruction of the Philippine countryside and reveals how ordinary men ...

Unlike many titles on environmental issues that portend a dark future, Environmental Success Stories delves into the most daunting ecological and e...

Unlike many titles on environmental issues that portend a dark future, Environmental Success Stories delves into the most daunting ecological and e...

One major consequence of climate change is abrupt, dramatic changes in regional biodiversity. Even if the most optimistic scenarios for mitigating ...

Ecological restoration, the attempt to guide damaged ecosystems back to a previous, usually healthier or more natural, condition, is rapidly gainin...

Written to be accessible to any college-level reader, "Protecting Life on Earth" offers a non-technical, yet comprehensive introduction to the grow...

In October of 2007 scientists from Ecuador, Peru, and the United States conducted a rapid inventory of the Reserva de Produccion Faunistica Cuyaben...

A moose frustrates commuters by wandering onto the highway; a cougar stalks his prey through suburban backyards; an alligator suns himself in a str...

Following the publication of C. S. Holling's seminal work on the relationship between animal body mass patterns and scale-specific landscape struct...

Covering a large swath of the American West, the Great Basin, centered in Nevada and including parts of California, Utah, and Oregon, is named for ...

Following the publication of C. S. Holling's seminal work on the relationship between animal body mass patterns and scale-specific landscape struct...