Non-fiction

Ice is beautiful and complex. It regulates our planet's temperature. And it is vanishing - fast. Peter Wadhams, the world's leading expert on sea i...

Nature, money, work, care, food, energy, and lives: these are the seven things that have made our world and will shape its future. In making these ...

There is a renaissance blooming in the climate movement: leadership that is more characteristically feminine and more faithfully feminist, rooted i...

The tools required to avoid a climate disaster already exist. Between emissions cuts and emerging technologies, we can do it. Here Professor Tim Fl...

Why is everything we think we know about ecology wrong? Is there really any difference between 'humans' and 'nature'? Does this mean we even have a...

Paul Hawken has spent more than a decade researching organizations dedicated to restoring the environment and fostering social justice. From billio...

Every year, air pollution prematurely kills seven million people around the world, in rich countries and poor ones. It is strongly linked to stroke...

Climate change: watershed or endgame? In this compelling new book, Noam Chomsky, the world’s leading public intellectual, and Robert Pollin, a reno...

For the first time ever, an international coalition of leading researchers, scientists and policymakers has come together to offer a set of realist...

In this era of climate crisis, in which our very futures are at stake, sustainability is a global imperative. Yet we tend to associate sustainabili...

Nutritionists tell you to eat more fish. Environmentalists tell you to eat less fish. Apparently they are both right. It's the same thing with almo...

What should I wear? It’s one of the fundamental questions we ask ourselves every day. More than ever, we are told it should be something new. Today...

In 1994, a wildfire on Colorado's Storm King Mountain was wrongly identified at the outset as occurring in South Canyon. This unintentional, seemin...

Started to worry about just how hot our world is going to get, and whether you can do anything about it? As the effect of climate change grows by t...

An accessible guide to the changes we can all make—small and large—to rid our lives of disposable plastic and clean up the world’s oceans. How to G...

At just fifteen, Greta Thunberg became one of today's most prominent climate change activists—her impassioned calls for action on global warming ha...

All across the world, irreplaceable habitats are under threat. Unique ecosystems of plants and animals are being destroyed by human intervention. F...

Today many of us live indoor lives, disconnected from the natural world as never before. And yet nature remains deeply ingrained in our language, c...

The official death toll of the 1986 Chernobyl accident, 'the worst nuclear disaster in history', is only 54, and stories today commonly suggest tha...

How did environmental activism begin in Malaysia? Who were the key players back in the 1970s, when the international community was just starting to...

The story of Chernobyl is more complex, more human, and more terrifying than the Soviet myth. Adam Higginbotham has written a harrowing and compell...

In August 2018 a fifteen-year-old Swedish girl, Greta Thunberg, decided not to go to school one day. A year later, she was joined in her strike by ...

In the remote mountains of Scotland, in high-tech bunkers in South Dakota and in the lush valleys of New Zealand, small groups of determined men an...

In Earth, a planetary scientist and a literary humanist explore what happens when we think of the Earth as an object viewable from space. As a “blu...

What is the environment, this elusive object that impacts us so profoundly--our odds to be born; the way we look, feel, and function; and how long ...

Though we try to imagine otherwise, waste is every object, plus time. Whatever else an object is, it's also waste-or was, or will be. All that is n...

For more than twenty years Naomi Klein's books have defined our era, chronicling the exploitation of people and the planet and demanding justice. O...

Saving the environment is our collective duty. With each passing day, climate change is causing Pacific islands to disappear into the sea, accelera...

An overview of recycling as an activity and a process, following different materials through the waste stream. Is there a point to recycling? Is re...

Downsizing. Decluttering. A parent's death. Sooner or later, all of us are faced with things we no longer need or want. But when we drop our old cl...

Climate Change researcher, Seth Wynes, sets out in the simplest terms how you can make a real and positive impact. Make changes at home, at work, t...

Carbon. It's in the fibers in your hair, the timbers in your walls, the food that you eat, and the air that you breathe. It's worth billions of dol...

Building from his acclaimed anthology Tales of Two Americas, beloved writer and editor John Freeman draws together a group of our greatest writers ...

Planet Earth needs a self-help book, and this is it. The future is happening to us far faster than we thought it would and this book explains why. ...

This is the only way it can contribute to the drastic transformations needed to come to a truly sustainable model of development. The good news is ...

Greenland: a remote, mysterious island five times the size of California but with a population of just 56,000. The ice sheet that covers it is 700 ...

Call it "Zen and the Art of Farming" or a "Little Green Book," Masanobu Fukuoka's manifesto about farming, eating, and the limits of human knowledg...

In The Quest, master storyteller, leading energy expert and Pulitzer prize-winner for The Prize, Daniel Yergin shows us how energy is the ultimate ...

Hope Jahren is an award-winning scientist, a brilliant writer, a passionate teacher, and one of the seven billion people with whom we share this ea...

It is worse, much worse, than you think. The slowness of climate change is a fairy tale, perhaps as pernicious as the one that says it isn't happen...

It's time. This is our last chance to do anything about the global climate and ecological emergency. Our last chance to save the world as we know i...

This book is a manifesto for real urban change. Today, our urban areas are held back by corporate greed, loss of public space and rising inequality...

It is all too easy to feel paralysed and hopeless in the face of climate crisis, but the truth is that every one of us has the power to change hist...

With foul air, filthy water, rising temperatures and encroaching deserts, China is already suffering an environmental disaster. Now it faces a star...