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Our Biggest Experiment : An Epic History of the Climate Crisis
Bell, AliceCatapult 2021Traversing science, politics, and technology, Our Biggest Experiment shines a spotlight on the little-known scientists who sounded the alarm to reveal the history behind the defini...
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Not on My Watch : How a renegade whale biologist took on governments and industry to save wild salmon
Morton, AlexandraRandom House of Canada 2021NATIONAL BESTSELLER Alexandra Morton has been called "the Jane Goodall of Canada" because of her passionate thirty-year fight to save British Columbia's wild salmon. Her account o...
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Under a White Sky : The Nature of the Future
Kolbert, ElizabethCrown 2021NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Sixth Extinction returns to humanity’s transformative impact on the environment, now asking: After doing so much dama...
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Deep Time Reckoning : How Future Thinking Can Help Earth Now
Ialenti, VincentMIT Press 2020A guide to long-term thinking: how to envision the far future of Earth. We live on a planet careening toward environmental collapse that will be largely brought about by our own ac...
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What Can I Do? : My Path from Climate Despair to Action
Fonda, JanePenguin Publishing Group 2020A call to action from Jane Fonda, one of the most inspiring activists of our time, urging us to wake up to the looming disaster of climate change and equipping us with the tools we...
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We Are the Weather : Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast
Foer, Jonathan SafranMacmillan Audio 2019 UnabridgedThis program is read by the author. Some people reject the fact, overwhelmingly supported by scientists, that our planet is warming due to human activities. But do those of us who...
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Sea Otter Heroes : The Predators That Saved an Ecosystem
Newman, PatriciaLerner Publishing Group 2019 UnabridgedA Robert F. Sibert Informational Honor Book A Green Earth Book Award Winner This up-close look at a fascinating scientific discovery highlights the critical role predators such...
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The Wisdom of Wolves : Lessons From the Sawtooth Pack
Dutcher, Jamie; Dutcher, JimDisney Book Group 2018From a couple who lived intimately alongside a three-generation wolf pack, this book of inspiration, drawn from the wild, will fascinate animal and nature lovers. For six years Jim...
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Demystifying Climate Models
Gettelman, Andrew; Rood, Richard B.Springer 2016 1. utgåvaTable of contentsPart I. Basic Principles and the Problem of Climate Forecasts1. Key Concepts in Climate ModelingAndrew Gettelman, Richard B. Rood2. Components of the Climate Syste...
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Ninja Plants : Survival and Adaptation in the Plant World
Blevins, Wiley W.Lerner Publishing Group 2017What can communicate but has no mouth, and can attack but has no hands? A plant! You might love the beauty and fragrance of flowers, but plants are far more complex than meets the...
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Lab Girl : A Memoir
Jahren, HopeKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2016NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Geobiologist Hope Jahren has spent her life studying trees, flowers, seeds, and soil. Lab Girl is her revelatory t...
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The Nine Elements of a Sustainable Campus
Thomashow, MitchellMIT Press 2014A former college president offers a framework for sustainability on campus, describing initiatives that range from renewable energy to a revamped curriculum to sustainable investme...
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Invisible Nature : Healing the Destructive Divide Between People and the Environment
Worthy, KennethPrometheus 2013A revolutionary new understanding of the precarious modern human-nature relationship and a pathto a healthier, more sustainable world.Amidst all the wondrous luxuries of the modern...
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On Mount Hood : A Biography of Oregon's Perilous Peak
Bell, JonSasquatch Books 2011On Mount Hood is a contemporary, first-person narrative biography of Oregon's greatest mountain, featuring stories full of adventure and tragedy, history and geology, people and pl...