Environment and Ecology

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...

There are few more beautiful places than Scotlands winter mountains. But even when most of the snow has melted, isolated patches can linger well in...

Across ten captivating and beautifully illustrated chapters, Morgan Phillips recounts stories of adaptation from the air-conditioned pavements of D...

The third edition of this introductory textbook for both science students and non-science majors has been brought completely up-to-date. It reflect...

A powerful look at one of the most important issues facing our world today - climate change.This climate change book for kids explores the past, pr...

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring In the last few years global awareness of climate change has grown very rapidly - through th...

An unflinching photographic record of the epic effects of a violent climate, from the earliest extinction events to the present. Violent geologic ...

If you are a decent human being who believes in science, then IFLScience! How to F***ing Save the Planet is an absolutely essential read. It is eas...

Among scholars who focus on the politics of natural resources, conventional wisdom asserts that resource-scarce states have the strongest interest ...

Winner of the Science Writers and Communicators of Canada General Audience award We live at the bottom of an ocean of air - 5,200 million millio...

Winner of the Science Writers and Communicators of Canada General Audience award We live at the bottom of an ocean of air 5,200 million million t...

A practical guide to delivering green infrastructure from the ground up and bringing nature in to the built environment. Exploring the process of d...

'Astonishing ... beautiful, compelling and terrifying' Observer'Wadhams' writing sparkles ... a lyrical sense of wonder at the natural world ... e...

This four volume collection of selected works examines the political, social and economic aspects of the interaction between Chinese society and th...

Personal carbon trading is rapidly moving up the political agenda as recognition grows of its potential to address urgent issues of climate change ...

South East Queensland has been one of the fastest growing regions of Australia, both in terms of its rapidly growing population and an ever-expandi...

The Great Global Warming Blunder unveils new evidence from major scientific findings that explode the conventional wisdom on climate change and res...

Climate variability in different ocean basins can impact one another, for instance the El Niño/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) in the Pacific Ocean has...

After a distinguished career in climate science as the Director of the UN Global Climate Observing System in Geneva, David Goodrich returned home t...

'Hope Jahren asks the central question of our time: how can we learn to live on a finite planet? The Story of More is thoughtful, informative and -...

Hybrid cars, fast trains, energy-efficient light bulbs, solar panels, carbon offsets... Forget everything you ever thought you knew about living gr...

After the perceived failure of global approaches to tackling climate change, enthusiasm for local climate initiatives has blossomed world-wide, sug...

When Europeans first arrived in North America, they faced a cold new world. The average global temperature had dropped to lows unseen in millennia,...

Climate change is no laughing matter, but maybe it should be. The topic is so critical that everyone, from students to policy-makers to voters, nee...

The Climate Majority is the first book to investigate climate apathy, to describe how it prevents action to stop climate change and to show how it ...

When Deng Xiaoping introduced market reforms in the late 1970s, few would have imagined what the next four decades would bring. China's GDP has gro...

If we hope to combat issues like climate change we must abandon individualistic approaches to activism. From Superstorm Sandy to Hurricane Katrina,...

In The Coming Famine, Julian Cribb lays out a vivid picture of an impending planetary crisis a global food shortage that threatens to hit by mid-c...

Prepared for the 2013 National Climate Assessment and a landmark study in terms of its breadth and depth of coverage, Great Plains Technical Input ...

Prepared for the 2013 National Climate Assessment and a landmark study in terms of its breadth and depth of coverage, Climate of the Southeast Unit...

Developed to inform the 2013 National Climate Assessment, and a landmark study in terms of its breadth and depth of coverage and conducted under th...

Prepared for the 2013 National Climate Assessment and a landmark study in terms of its breadth and depth of coverage, this report blends the contri...

Weather, water, and climate. How we feel, how productive we are, even our sheer existence, depends on these three things. The United States economi...

This new edition of Mark Z. Jacobson's textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to the history and science of the major air pollution and cli...

What''s Really Happening To Our Planet? is the only book to fully review the current state of the planet and the way in which our unchecked human a...

Global climate change is one of the most significant long-term policy challenges facing the United States, and policies to mitigate climate change ...