Nature and climate

Animals, landscapes, climate and the living world we are part of. 29 books.

• A Walk in the WoodsBill BrysonWalk the Appalachian Trail with Bill Bryson and Stephen Katz through hard weather, comic setbacks and changing friendship, while seeing how people shaped the path and its forests.
• Chimpanzee Politics: Power and Sex among ApesFrans de WaalA firsthand account of how alliances, rank, reconciliation, and sexual choice shaped power in an Arnhem chimpanzee colony, including the fragile balance behind visible dominance.
• Do Fish Feel Pain?Victoria BraithwaiteCan a fish suffer, or does it merely react? Follow Victoria Braithwaite's experiments and see why the answer matters for fishing and farming.
• DrawdownPaul HawkenClimate solutions across energy, food, cities, land, transport, and materials become easier to compare through their mechanisms, limits, and projected impacts.
• ElectrifySaul GriffithSaul Griffith's 2021 case for electrifying American homes, transport and industry explains the grid, financing and policy changes a rapid transition would require.
• RegenesisGeorge MonbiotExplore how living soil, food security, and land use fit together through farms, food banks, and microbial protein, with affordability and fair access in view.
• Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter PlanetMark LynasMark Lynas traces how each degree of warming could reshape water, coasts, food, and ecosystems, then examines choices for reducing emissions.
• The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the UnthinkableAmitav GhoshAn inquiry into why climate change strains modern stories and politics, how empire shapes the crisis, and where collective action and kinship with nonhuman life may begin.
• This Changes EverythingNaomi KleinNaomi Klein connects climate change to the rules of global capitalism, then follows communities resisting extraction and building fairer alternatives.
• Amity and ProsperityEliza Griswold
• Between a Rock and a Hard PlaceAron Ralston
• Break Through: Why We Can't Leave Saving the Planet to EnvironmentalistsMichael Shellenberger, Ted Nordhaus
• Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of BeaversBen Goldfarb
• ExposureRobert Bilott
• Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter WorldJohn Vaillant
• Going to ExtremesJoe McGinniss
• Grandma Gatewood’s WalkBen Montgomery
• H Is for HawkHelen Macdonald
• Inside of a Dog: What Dogs See, Smell, and KnowAlexandra Horowitz
• Mountains of the Mind: Adventures in Reaching the SummitRobert Macfarlane
• The End of NatureBill McKibben
• The Old Ways: A Journey on FootRobert Macfarlane
• The Orchid ThiefSusan Orlean
• The Songs of TreesDavid George Haskell
• The Wilderness WarriorDouglas Brinkley
• Toms River: A Story of Science and SalvationDan Fagin
• UnsettledSteven E. Koonin
• What a Fish KnowsJonathan Balcombe
• What a Plant KnowsDaniel Chamovitz