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Must Love Trees is an unconventional guide into the world of trees—it is a blend of witty humor, engaging tree-related stories, and beautiful illustrations, featuring a hundred types of North American trees.

Energy Resources: Examining the Facts provides an authoritative, comprehensive overview of economic, political, and environmental drivers of America's energy picture, from trends in the production and consumption of fossil fuels and renewables to the state of the national energy grid.Energy Resources: Examining the Facts is part of a series that uses evidence-based documentation to examine the veracity of claims and beliefs about high-profile issues in American culture and politics. Each book in the Contemporary Debates series is intended to puncture rather than perpetuate myths that diminish our understanding of important policies and positions; to provide needed context for misleading statements and claims; and to confirm the factual accuracy of other assertions.This installment in the series provides a comprehensive overview of all energy resources used in the United States, including fossil fuels (oil, gas, coal), nuclear power, hydropower, other major renewables (solar and wind), and even smaller energy sources, such as wood products (biomass), ethanol, plant-based fluids/gases, and geothermal, that have meaningful potential for future growth. The framework of laws and regulations in which energy resources are developed, produced, and overseen is described, as are the ways in which economic development powered by different energy resources is impacting people and ecosystems in the United States and around the world.

"The editors have brought together a volume of papers and essays written by tribal fish and wildlife managers and researchers about the work they do. This book will help wildlife professionals and conservationists in private and public sectors draw lessons from the expertise of indigenous peoples in North America, and advise them on how best to incorporate long-established successful Native methods in their own practices"--

"This book invites the reader to explore the chains of improbable events that can mold a long unknown pathogen into an agent of distress and tragedy for humanity"--

A lavishly illustrated guide to the seaweed families of the worldSeaweeds are astoundingly diverse. They're found along the shallows of beaches and have been recorded living at depths of more than 800 feet; they can be microscopic or grow into giants many meters long. They're incredibly efficient at using the materials found in the ocean and are increasingly used in the human world, in applications from food to fuel. They're beautiful, too, with their undulating shapes anchored to the sea floor or drifting on the surface. Seaweeds aren't plants: they're algae, part of a huge and largely unfamiliar group of aquatic organisms. Seaweeds of the World makes sense of their complicated world, differentiating between the three main groups-red, green, and brown-and delving into their complex reproductive systems. The result is an unprecedented, accessible, and in-depth look at a previously hidden ocean world.Features close to 250 beautiful color photos as well as diagrams and distribution mapsCovers every major family and genus

This handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the history, theory and current practices of rewilding.

This volume brings together a collection of case studies examining wildlife ecology and conservation across India.

A very special tale of the magnificent wildlife of Borneo, and the author and his family's humorously presented but scientifically interesting adventures.

The way we glow when having a great conversation, building off each other's ideas, finding solutions we can all be satisfied with. The way we spark together when marching and chanting in protest. This is living democracy.Yes, the world looks bleak. Across our society there's a mounting sense of desperation in the face of the climate crisis, gaping economic inequality and racial injustice, increasing threat of war, and a post-truth politics divorced from reality. Extinction is in the air.But what if the solutions to our ecological, social and political crises could all be found in the same approach? What if it was possible for us to not just survive, but thrive?In Living Democracy, Greens activist Tim Hollo offers bold ideas and a positive vision. It's the end of the world as we know it, but it doesn't have to be the end of the world. In fact, around the globe, people and communities are beginning an exciting new journey.This book will inspire you, inform you, and get you fired up to co-create our common future. A living democracy.'Everyone who reads this book is generously invited to get involved in the project of our times.' - David Ritter'A brilliant conversation and action kick-starter from a man who walks the talk.'- Christine Milne'It's pretty clear that the world we've known isn't working very well anymore; we need to reinvent it, and this book brims with good ideas about what that means!' - Bill McKibben'A great vision for a bloodless coup of mutual aid and rule-governed anarchy.' - Tyson Yunkaporta'A manual for making a new and better world that shows us, with lucidity, courage and compassion, that the tools for building that world are already in our hands.' - James Bradley'I have been waiting for this book, and now that Tim Hollo has written it, I'll be putting it in the hands of pretty much everyone I know.' - Danielle Celermajer'Timely, vivid and urgent, this is a book that meets the challenges of our age head-on.' - Scott Ludlam'A brilliant treatise for our future and based on a deep understanding of First Nations knowledge - Tim Hollo has given us so much with this beautifully written work.' - Tjanara Goreng Goreng

In We Can't Run Away From This, ultrarunner Damian Hall examines the impact of running in our climate and ecological emergency. Packed with insights from experts, it is an enlightening read which will prompt us all to really think about our kit, food and travel, and to identify simple changes we can make to our behaviour.

The definitive history of the modern climate change era, from an award-winning writer who has been at the centre of the fight for more than thirty yearsIn 1979, President Jimmy Carter was presented with the findings of scientists who had been investigating whether human activities might change the climate in harmful ways. "e;A wait-and-see policy may mean waiting until it is too late,"e; their report said. They were right -- but no one was listening. Four decades later, we are haunted by the consequences of this inattention, and the years of complacency, obfuscation and denialism that followed. Today, the staggering scale and scope of what we have done to the planet is impossible to ignore: the seasons of fire and flood have crossed into plain view. Fire and Flood is a comprehensive, compulsively readable history of climate change from veteran environmental journalist Eugene Linden. Linden retells the story of the modern climate change era decade by decade, tracking the progress of four ticking clocks: first, the reality of climate change itself; second, advances in scientific understanding; third, the spread of public awareness; and fourth, the business and finance response. Like no previous writer, Linden has drawn together the elements of the biggest story in the world, in a book that it is gripping as history, as economic investigation, and as scientific thriller.

Billy Conker is a young conservationist who travels around the world, discovering amazing animals and plants and finding ways to help and protect them. Now you can join Billy on his mission! It's not going to be easy. Some animals are already struggling - or even endangered - and these are the hardest to find.

Frontline voices from the worldwide movement to decolonize climate change and revitalize a dying planet.With a deep, anticolonial and antiracist critique and analysis of what “conservation” currently is, Decolonize Conservation presents an alternative vision–one already working–of the most effective and just way to fight against biodiversity loss and climate change. Through the voices of largely silenced or invisibilized Indigenous Peoples and local communities, the devastating consequences of making 30 percent of the globe “Protected Areas,” and other so-called “Nature-Based Solutions” are made clear.Evidence proves indigenous people understand and manage their environment better than anyone else. Eighty percent of the Earth’s biodiversity is in tribal territories and when indigenous peoples have secure rights over their land, they achieve at least equal if not better conservation results at a fraction of the cost of conventional conservation programs. But in Africa and Asia, governments and NGOs are stealing vast areas of land from tribal peoples and local communities under the false claim that this is necessary for conservation.As the editors write, “This is colonialism pure and simple: powerful global interests are shamelessly taking land and resources from vulnerable people while claiming they are doing it for the good of humanity.”The powerful collection of voices from the groundbreaking “Our Land, Our Nature” congress takes us to the heart of the climate justice movement and the struggle for life and land across the globe. With Indigenous Peoples and their rights at its center, the book exposes the brutal and deadly reality of colonial and racist conservation for people around the world, while revealing the problems of current climate policy approaches that do nothing to tackle the real causes of environmental destruction.