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How Nature Will Take Her Revenge for Climate Change
Climate change is not a matter of gradually increasing temperatures. New scientific findings about how our planet works show that it does not do gradu...
Why Scientists Fear Tipping Points in Climate Change
Nature is fragile, environmentalists often tell us. But the lesson of this book is that it is not so. The truth is far more worrying. Nature is strong...
The official companion to the ground-breaking Netflix original Attenborough series with a special foreword by David Attenborough
'The future of all life on this earth depends on our willingness to take action now' David Attenborough The official companion to the ground-breaking ...
Amazing Images of Our Changing World
A collection of 250 stunning images showing locations around the world as they were and as they are now, with captions explaining the often breathtaki...
The New Fight over Who Owns the Earth
How Wall Street, Chinese billionaires, oil sheiks, and agribusiness are buying up huge tracts of land in a hungry, crowded world. An unprecedented lan...
Water, the Defining Crisis of the Twenty-first Century
It was with the Colorado River that engineers first learned to control great rivers. But now the Colorado"s reservoirs are two-thirds empty. Great riv...
Travels to find where my stuff comes from
The road to hell is paved with good intentions. Ever wondered if declaring support for fair-trade and then chucking Kenyan beans from your shopping tr...
Why Invasive Species Will Be Nature's Salvation
Named one of the best books of 2015 by The Economist A provocative exploration of the “new ecology” and why most of what we think we know about al...
Tracking Down the Sources of My Stuff
A 2008 Indie Next Pick In Confessions of an Eco-Sinner, Fred Pearce surveys his home and then sets out to track down the people behind the production ...
300 stunning before-and-after photographs that show the staggering transformation of our world. "Earth Then and Now" records the dramatic way our plan...
and Our Planet's Surprising Future
A leading environmental writer looks at the unexpected effects—and possible benefits—of a shrinking, graying population Over the last century, the...
The New Fight Over Who Owns the Earth
What do City speculators, Gulf oil sheikhs, Chinese entrepreneurs, big-name financiers like George Soros and industry titans like Richard Branson buy ...
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Where water meets land, life abounds. This is the story of the nature and people of the wetlands of the world....
Disasters, Lies, and the Legacy of the Nuclear Age
An investigation into our complicated 8-decade-long relationship with nuclear technology, from the bomb to nuclear accidents to nuclear waste. From Hi...
Journey To The Heart Of The Rainforest
DEEP JUNGLE is an exploration of the most alien and feared habitat on Earth. Starting with man's earliest recorded adventures, Fred Pearce journeys hi...
The message is "think and act green" by conserving and recycling....
Our Perilous Future in the Global Greenhouse
This book investigates the conflicting new theories of global warming and the ozone hole, confirming the greenhouse effect at work on our planet. Extr...
Restoring Our Forests by Trusting in Nature
“A vivid, important, and inspiring book.”— Elizabeth Kolbert, Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Sixth Extinction and Under a White Sky “Elo...
The Battle for the Truth about Global Warming
The biggest scandal to hit global warming science in years....
Mass Migration, Ageing Nations and the Coming Population Crash
Wherever we look, population is the driver of the most toxic issues on the political agenda. But the population bomb is being defused. Half the world'...
Review: This volume discusses and illustrates the effects of the world's population on natural resources, land use, atmosphere, chemicals, wastes, eco...
Rivers, Dams, and the Coming World Water Crisis
This study explores the people and the politics behind the power of water, one of the key issues for the world in the coming decades. The author exami...
A Vision for the World's Wetlands and Their People
The People and the Politics Behind the Environmental Revolution
As the century comes to a close and we begin to comprehend the scale and brutality of our assaults on the planet, environmentalists are on the march a...
Offers a different perspective to the challenges of integrated water resource use in the Mediterranean region, aimed at both water resource planners a...
Potent Visual Evidence of Our Changing World
Earth Then and Now records the dramatic way in which our planet has changed in just the past one hundred years. It draws on the combined photographic ...
How We Can Reforest Our World
Trees keep our planet cool and breathable. They make the rain and sustain biodiversity. They are essential for nature and for us. And yet, we are cutt...
The Global Water Crisis and How to Solve It
We cannot live without water. But with 7.5 billion people competing for this single unevenly-distributed resource, the planet is drying up. In When th...
Options for EU Action on Deforestation and Forest Degradation
Ivers, Dams and the Coming World Water Crisis
The Water Crisis in Britain