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Montana, Ecuador, Greenland, Spain, Iceland, Scandinavia...: details of resource extraction and the forces that drive it - with suggestions for finding our way out of disaster.

The Vanishing Earth: A Journey Through the Last Days of Abundance ...

James Crawford

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A new and updated edition of this seminal book, first published in 1975; with an additional final section by Tim Richardson on Modernism, Postmodernism, post-industrialism and large-scale ur... read more

The Landscape of Man: Shaping the Environment from Prehistory to the P ...

Geoffrey Jellicoe

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The work of The Campaign to Protect Rural England: from the Country Code to sustainable development.

Protecting The Countryside: The First Century of CPRE ...

Matthew Kelly

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A response to the multigenerational problem that is climate change. His last book The Treeline: The Last Forest and the Future of Life on Earth was highly praised.

Think Like a Forest: Letters to my Children from a Changing Planet ...

Ben Rawlence

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A love letter to the glens, woods and hills of the north, and a lament for what is being lost to modernity in the dash for clean energy.

Borrowed Land: A Highland Story

Kapka Kassabova

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The astonishingly diverse flora and fauna, not of stretches of unbroken emerald but rather in scrubby, scratchy beauty.

Grasslands: The Intricate Life of Britain’s Hidden Habitats ...

John Wright

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Contributors include Mary-Ann Ochota, Tim Dee, Isabelle Tree, Guy Shrubsole, Richard Mabey, Fiona Reynolds, Zaffar Kunial, Sean Borodale, Corinne Fowler and Helen Mort. To celebrate the cent... read more

Future Rural: Imagining Tomorrow’s Countryside ...

Adrian Cooper

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Gaia and Philosophy

Lynn Margulis

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Indigenous peoples and wildlife in the far north - Ellesmere Island, Alaska, Greenland, Norway... And a lot of melting ice.

Frostlines: An Epic Exploration of the Transforming Arctic ...

Neil Shea

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Set in 2119 after the UK is mostly submerged by rising seas, McEwan's latest combines a Ballardian dystopia with a deft mystery - a case of a disappearing poem rather than a body in the libr... read more

What We Can Know

Ian McEwan

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The unveiling of a new Great Game by a geo-strategic policy maker - the players also include China and Russia.

So You Want to Own Greenland?: Lessons from the Vikings to Trump ...

Elizabeth Buchanan

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A far-ranging meditation on snow, touching on physics, chemistry, meteorology, anthropology, geography, poetry and art. By a distinguished Swedish academic.

Snö: A History

Sverker Sörlin

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The author of the excellent Kathmandu sets out on four long hikes at different seasons to understand the fragile relationship of the mountain communities and their environments.

Human Nature: A Walking History of the Himalayan Landscape ...

Thomas Bell

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A Carrollian pursuit of all eighteen species - this is a rumbunctious, funny and energetic memoir of Lafferty's many quests.

An Inconvenience of Penguins: Epic voyages in pursuit of the worldR ...

Jamie Lafferty

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An exploration of darkness through literature, in which memory, history and myth are deployed as instruments of illumination.

Night Vision: In Search of the True Dark

Jean Sprackland

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The vicissitudes of the Amur tiger and the successes of the bilateral conservation efforts, by the expert on endangered species in northern Asia and author of Owls of the Eastern Ice.

Tigers Between Empires: The Journey to Save the Siberian Tiger from Ex ...

Jonathan C. Slaght

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A social and cultural history of forests.

Trees Ancient and Modern: Woodland Cultures and Conservation ...

Charles Watkins

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A compelling account of what we know about black holes, including how our pursuit of knowledge of the void led us towards the invention of Wifi, the calibration of GPS and critical evidence... read more

Facing Infinity: Black Holes and Our Place on Earth ...

Jonas Enander

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The gathered reportage of one of our greatest science writers, profiling the radical steps being taken by those on the frontlines of catastrophic climate change.

Life on a Little-Known Planet

Elizabeth Kolbert

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Data scientist Hannah Ritchie focuses on getting our facts straight. An ultimately optimistic guide.

Clearing the Air: A Hopeful Guide to Solving Climate Change – in ...

Hannah Ritchie

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By bus across the US, following the same route (Detroit to Los Angeles) that she made in her youth. A counterpoint to the 'Great American Road Trip', JP's narrative spins history, literature... read more

Greyhound

Joanna Pocock

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Beguiling, compelling novel about a Cumbrian wind - which occupies a Neolithic tribe, a wizard in the Dark Ages, a Victorian engineer and a contemporary scientist.

Helm

Sarah Hall

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From seed to maturity to dessication, the life-cycle of the teasel, closely observed - a process that has bewitched the author, an artist and naturalist. A pamphlet from a tiny press.

Teasels

Sam Francis

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By a barrister whose work places her at the cutting edge of environmental laws around the world.

A Barrister for the Earth: Ten Cases of Hope for Our Future ...

Monica Feria-Tinta

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A collection of non-fiction from the great novelist and sardonic chronicler of climate change.

Wild Fictions

Amitav Ghosh

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Vibrant, vital works by a hundred leading artists of African diasporic, Latin American and Native American identity explore the complex connectivity of race, the climate crisis and coloniali... read more

Black Earth Rising

Ekow Eshun

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Prof. Farrier is consolingly positive about our relationship with our world.

Nature’s Genius: Evolution’s Lessons for a Changing Planet ...

David Farrier

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A collection of essays about our most basic need - water - with contributions by Rebecca Solnit, Ocean Vuong, Robin Wall Kimmerer, Lucy Jones, Vandana Shiva, Elif Shafak and others.

Thirst: In Search of Freshwater

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Recent essays by the author of Orwell's Roses, Wanderlust and others.

No Straight Road Takes You There: Essays for Uneven Terrain ...

Rebecca Solnit

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A global approach that also considers traditional and modern forest stewardship in the face of environmental degradation.

The Great Tree Story: How Forests Have Shaped Our World ...

Levison Wood

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Historically informed, socially and environmentally alert, Kaplan is a great contemporary commentator on geopolitics.

Waste Land: A World in Permanent Crisis

Robert D Kaplan

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The over-grazed, debt-ridden farm is on Bodmin Moor, with a vestige of temperate rainforest still remaining. Merlin H-T, a veteran of the war in Afghanistan and son of the renowned explorer,... read more

Our Oaken Bones: Reviving a Family, a Farm and Britain’s Ancient ...

Merlin Hanbury-Tenison

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The 1,500-mile watershed stretching from Austria to Romania is still home to a third of Europe's wildlife, including lynx, chamois, bears, and bison that roam its high alpine meadows and its... read more

Walking Europe’s Last Wilderness: A Journey through the Carpathi ...

Nick Thorpe

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The death of the author's father brings her to Shetland and the pandemic kept her there. What follows is a powerful, nuanced tale of navigating the challenge of a big onshore windfarm that h... read more

The Shetland Way: Community and Climate Crisis on my Father’s Is ...

Marianne Brown

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Argues that the wood-coal-oil-green energy transition is illusory: we use more wood and coal than ever, and remain dependent on oil. The idea of 'transition' has been deployed by energy comp... read more

More and More and More: An All-Consuming History of Energy ...

Jean-Baptiste Fressoz

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The author of The Overstory and Bewilderment has written another ambitious novel in which relationships develop alongside themes of technology, the environment and the future of the race (hu... read more

Playground

Richard Powers

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