Environment and Ecology

Find out why oceans are important, how they're under threat and what we can do to protect them. With bright, bold illustrations and simple text, Ec...

Find out why recycling matters and about different ways of re-using and recycling things. With bright, bold illustrations and simple text, Eco Baby...

An ornithologists personal look at farming practices that finds practical solutions for sustainable food production compatible with bird and wildli...

Food how its grown, how its shared makes us who we are. This issue traces the connections between farm and food, between humus and human. Accor...

People who flyfish know that a favorite river bend, a secluded spot in moving waters, can feel like homea place you know intimately and intuitively...

Long ago we invited bears into our stories, our dreams, our nightmares, our lives. We have always sought them out where they live, for their hides,...

Formed by the confluence of the Ocmulgee and Oconee Rivers, the Altamaha is the largest free-flowing river on the East Coast and drains its third-l...

Millions of people know a little bit about efforts to save the whooping crane, thanks to the movie Fly Away Home and annual news stories about ultr...

Fredrick Swanson tells the story of Guy M. Brandborg and his impact on the practices of the U.S. Forest Service. As supervisor of Montana's Bitterr...

To keep the land in the family . . . To operate the land profitably . . . To leave the land better than they found it . . . Each year, Sand County ...

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

This book provides selected authorship on anthropogenic impacts caused by arsenic, lead, chromium and other pollutants and contaminants emanating f...

This book is about the empirical analysis of household electricity saving behavior. In particular, we focus on effective methods to promote energy ...

For the first time, this volume presents Vernon Bailey's correspondences and field notes spanning the majority of his life and career, collected an...

Estuaries are productive ecosystems of high ecological value. They are important habitats for various species and those of highest value are protec...

Congress continues to face questions about forestry practices, funding levels, and the federal role in wildland fire protection. Recent fire season...

Recent wildfires in the Western United States highlight the need for understanding the human dimensions of forest and wildfire management. This boo...

The Rocky Mountains of Idaho and Montana are home to some of the most important remaining American wilderness areas, preserved because of citizens ...

One night, poet and environmental writer John Lane tuned in to a sound from behind his house that he had never heard before: the nearby eerie and c...

Invasive species constitute a significant environmental and economic threat worldwide, acting as a key driver of biodiversity loss and ecosystem fu...

The publication of Nepal: An Introduction to the natural history, ecology and human environment of the Himalayas is the direct culmination of four ...

Riparian zones encompass the stream channel and the adjacent portion of the terrestrial landscape from the high water mark toward the uplands, wher...

This book compiles biographical sketches of top professionals in the field of environmental and agricultural research, as well as research summarie...

Hidden high in the Sierra de Guatemala mountain range of northeastern Mexico in the state of Tamaulipas is the northernmost tropical cloud forest o...