Why acknowledging diverse eco-social relationships can help us overcome the political polarization that undermines our ability to protect the environment

How technological advances and colonial fears inspired utopian geoengineering projects during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries

How the utopian tradition offers answers to today’s environmental crises

A new way of thinking about the climate crisis as an exercise in delimiting knowable, and habitable, worlds

An eminent philosopher explains why we owe it to future generations to take immediate action on global warming

Timely and provocative reflections on the future of the wild in an increasingly human world

How the specter of climate has been used to explain history since antiquity

How the subtle but significant consequences of a hotter planet have already begun—from lower test scores to higher crime rates—and how we might tackle them today

Political strategies for tackling climate change and other “long problems” that span generations

Solving the global climate crisis through local partnerships and experimentation

The little-known history of how the Sahara was transformed from a green and fertile land into the largest hot desert in the world

An argument that humanists have the tools—and the responsibility—to mobilize political power to tackle climate change

From a Nobel Prize–winning pioneer in environmental economics, an innovative account of how and why “green thinking” could cure many of the world’s most serious problems—from global warming to pandemics

How climate influenced the design strategies of modernist architects

An evocative chronicle of the power of solitude in the natural world

A global history of environmental warfare and the case for why it should be a crime

A passionate eyewitness account of the mysteries and looming demise of glaciers—and what their fate means for our shared future

Finalist for the National Book Award
An intimate reckoning with aquifer depletion in America's heartland

A riveting portrait of a rural Pennsylvania town at the center of the fracking controversy

A quantitative, broad, hands-on introduction to the cutting-edge science of global warming

Why we must learn to tell new stories about our relationship with the earth if we are to avoid climate catastrophe

A gripping history of the polar continent, from the great discoveries of the nineteenth century to modern scientific breakthroughs

A provocative and inspiring look at the future of humanity and science from world-renowned scientist and bestselling author Martin Rees

A haunting photographic record of extinction

An illustrated look at corals and the reefs they build around the world, and the causes and dire consequences of their rapid disappearance

A remarkable look at the rarest butterflies, how global changes threaten their existence, and how we can bring them back from near-extinction

Why the social character of scientific knowledge makes it trustworthy

Through an account of evolving ideas about wolves and coyotes, Thomas Dunlap shows how American attitudes toward animals have changed.

The 4.4-billion-year history of the oceans and their role in Earth's climate system

An in-depth look at the distinctly different ways that China and India govern their cities and how this impacts their residents

An insider account of how scientists unraveled the mystery of the thawing Arctic

Why an awareness of Earth's temporal rhythms is critical to our planetary survival

From Nobel Prize winner Syukuro Manabe and Anthony Broccoli, a definitive account of how we have come to understand the fundamental processes behind global warming

An in-depth look at the people and institutions connected with the Itaipu Dam, the world’s biggest producer of renewable energy

A political history of environmental policy and regulation in California, from the Gold Rush to the present

How individuals and the government are changing life in China's polluted cities

How the science of ecology is changing to meet the daunting challenges of environmental sustainability

Over the past several decades, civil and ethnic wars have undermined prospects for economic and political development, destabilized entire regions of the globe, and left millions dead. States, Scarcity, and Civil Strife in the...

How moving beyond GDP will improve well-being and sustainability

A stunning portrait of the nocturnal moths of Central and South America by famed American photographer Emmet Gowin

A fascinating look at the perils and promise of geoengineering and our potential future on a warming planet

Yellowstone holds a special place in America's heart. As the world's first national park, it is globally recognized as the crown jewel of modern environmental preservation. But the park and its surrounding regions have recently become a...

How knowing the extreme risks of climate change can help us prepare for an uncertain future

An essential guide to sustainable development for students and practitioners

Why a warmer climate may be humanity’s longest-lasting legacy

Power to the People examines the varied but interconnected relationships between energy consumption and economic development in Europe over the last five centuries. It describes how the traditional energy economy of medieval and early...

Architects today incorporate principles of sustainable design as a matter of necessity. But the challenge of unifying climate control and building functionality, of securing a managed environment within a natural setting—and combating...

The most comprehensive advanced graduate-level textbook on the subject

The Earth's climate system depends entirely on the Sun for its energy. Solar radiation warms the atmosphere and is fundamental to atmospheric composition, while the distribution of solar heating across the planet produces global wind...

A provocative contribution to the climate justice debate

The Politics of Precaution examines the politics of consumer and environmental risk regulation in the United States and Europe over the last five decades, explaining why America and Europe have often regulated a wide range of similar...

In the 1990s Richard B. Alley and his colleagues made headlines with the discovery that the last ice age came to an abrupt end over a period of only three years. In The Two-Mile Time Machine, Alley tells the fascinating history of...

A haunting, beautifully illustrated memorial to this iconic extinct bird

Rethinking Private Authority examines the role of non-state actors in global environmental politics, arguing that a fuller understanding of their role requires a new way of conceptualizing private authority. Jessica Green identifies two...

Ancient lessons for sustainable citizenship

This concise, sophisticated introduction to planetary climates explains the global physical and chemical processes that determine climate on any planet or major planetary satellite--from Mercury to Neptune and even large moons such as...

Earth's climate has undergone dramatic changes over the geologic timescale. At one extreme, Earth has been glaciated from the poles to the equator for periods that may have lasted millions of years. At another, temperatures were once so...

How does life on our planet respond to--and shape--climate? This question has never been more urgent than it is today, when humans are faced with the daunting task of guiding adaptation to an inexorably changing climate. This concise...

Our path of economic development has generated a growing list of environmental problems including the disposal of nuclear waste, exhaustion of natural resources, loss of biodiversity, climate change, and polluted land, air, and water....

Along rivers in Bali, small groups of farmers meet regularly in water temples to manage their irrigation systems. They have done so for a thousand years. Over the centuries, water temple networks have expanded to manage the ecology of...

Why our economy is cheating the future—and what we can do about it

An essential primer on atmospheric processes and their important role in the climate system

The new revised edition of a classic Earth science text

The oceans exert a vital moderating influence on the Earth's climate system. They provide inertia to the global climate, essentially acting as the pacemaker of climate variability and change, and they provide heat to high latitudes...

The cryosphere encompasses the Earth's snow and ice masses. It is a critical part of our planet's climate system, one that is especially at risk from climate change and global warming. The Cryosphere provides an essential introduction...

Even as the evidence of global warming mounts, the international response to this serious threat is coming unraveled. The United States has formally withdrawn from the 1997 Kyoto Protocol; other key nations are facing difficulty in...

A must-have introduction to this fundamental driver of the climate system

Bengal tigers in the jungles of India. Birds of Paradise in the wilds of New Guinea. Penguins on frozen beaches in Antarctica. These and other charismatic and endangered species find homes within the world's great wildlife reserves....