Environment and Ecology

Can a city be a forest? At first glance, this does not chime with our childhood idea of the ''wild wood'' - a dark entanglement of trees, where hum...

The Visionary Spirit offers a vision of hope which points to a new era of emancipatory living that Mick Collins calls the Transfromocene Age. In a ...

Our quality of life is heavily influenced by the quality of our environment. Whether we want to keep the beauty and quality that we have, or we wan...

John Francis''s real and compelling prose forms a tapestry of questions and answers woven from interviews, stories, personal experience, science, a...

The study of the Quaternary ice age has revolutionized ideas about Earth system change and the pace of landscape and ecosystem dynamics. The Ice Ag...

Before the dust settles, as many as 100,000 natural gas wells may be drilled into the Marcellus Shale on more than 20,000 well pads in Pennsylvania...

Award-winning author, Thom Hatch presents the definitive biography of George Bird Grinnell (1849-1938), who was recognized in his time as The Fathe...

This book explores the geography, ecology, and antiquity of 'open ecosystems', which include grasslands, savannas, and shrublands. They occur in cl...

Some aspects of public health vary by locality or jurisdiction. Political challenges are not one of them. As governments on every scale become mot...

Winner of the 2013 DeGroot Prize. A state-of-the-art presentation of spatio-temporal processes, bridging classic ideas with modern hierarchical sta...

Newly available in paperback, Dan Fagin's Pulitzer Prize-winning tale of a small town ravaged by industrial pollution is environmental reporting at...

How long should a leaf live? When should blueberries ripen? And what should a clever moose eat? Questions like these may seem simple or downright s...

Sickened by the contamination of their water, their air, of the Earth itself, more and more people are coming to realize that it is capitalism that...

Sickened by the contamination of their water, their air, of the Earth itself, more and more people are coming to realize that it is capitalism that...

From the arrival of Henry Hudson's Half Moon in the estuarial waters of what would come to be called New York Harbor to the 2006 agreement that lai...