Browsing: Environment

Bestsellers

How to Avoid a Climate Disaster

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In this timely bestseller, Bill Gates lays out a practical plan for how we can achieve zero greenhouse gas emissions and avoid a climate catastrophe. With clear-eyed solutions founded on a decade of investigating climate change as well as input from experts in various fields.

Animals

Owls of the Eastern Ice

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This NPR Best Book of 2020 recounts a scientist’s journey to Russia’s remote eastern wilderness in search of the world’s largest owl. “Terrifically exciting… Even on the hottest summer days this book will transport you to a land of dark and snowbound forests” (New York Times bestselling author Helen Macdonald).

Conservation

The Future Earth

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This hopeful read from “the Rebel Nerd of Meteorology” (Rolling Stone) presents a radical vision for reversing the effects of climate change over the next three decades. “An encouraging and diligently researched call to action regarding the most pressing issue of our time” (Kirkus Reviews starred review).

Conservation

Never Cry Wolf

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An international bestseller with over 10,300 five-star ratings on Goodreads: When naturalist Farley Mowat was assigned to live among wolves in the Arctic, he was surprised by his findings. This “fascinating” book (The New York Times) “opens new horizons in understanding animal nature and intelligence” (Newsday).

Animals

Father of Lions

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A moving true story: In war-torn Mosul, zookeeper Abu Laith found himself evacuating a string of animals from the city’s zoo — including a lion cub and a bear. “An engaging yet heartbreaking narrative that reads like fiction” (Kirkus Reviews).