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The Real Global Warming Disaster: Is the obsession with ’climate change’ turning out to be the most costly scientific blunder in history?

by Christopher Booker

This original book considers one of the most extraordinary scientific and political stories of our time: how in the 1980s a handful of scientists came to believe that mankind faced catastrophe from runaway global...


The Genius of Earth Day

by Adam Rome

The first Earth Day is the most famous little-known event in modern American history. Because we still pay ritual homage to the planet every April 22, everyone knows something about Earth Day. Some people may...


Blessed are the Consumers: Climate Change and the Practice of Restraint

by Sallie McFague

For decades, Sallie McFague has lent her voice and her theological imagination to addressing and advocating for the most important issues of our time. In doing so, she has influenced an entire generation, and...


A Good Forest for Dying: The Tragic Death of a Young Man on the Front Lines of the Environmental Wars

by Patrick Beach

Early on a September morning in 1998, David “Gypsy” Chain and eight fellow Earth First! activists went into the redwood forests of Scotia, California. Their loosely organized plan to protest the destruction...


The Future: Six Drivers of Global Change

by Al Gore

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

From the former vice president and #1 New York Times bestselling author comes An Inconvenient Truth for everything—a frank and clear-eyed assessment of six critical drivers of global...


Poisons in Your Food: The Dangers You Face and What You Can Do About Them

by Ruth Winter

This classic Crown book is back with all of Ruth Winter's original, thorough research about dangerous foods and what consumers can do to protect themselves.


A Storm Too Soon: A True Story of Disaster, Survival and an Incredible Rescue

by Michael J. Tougias

FROM MASTERFUL STORYTELLER MICHAEL J. TOUGIAS COMES A NEW, HEART-STOPPING TRUE-LIFE TALE OF MARITIME DISASTER, SURVIVAL, AND DARING RESCUE, HIS MOST THRILLING AND AMAZING STORY YET.

Seventy-foot waves batter...


Lights Out

by Scientific American Editors

Traditionally, the four horsemen of the apocalypse are war, famine, plague and death; but while classical authors were familiar with only four horsemen, modern ones could add events such as environmental devastation...


The Disaster Survival Bible

by Junius Podrug

In the midst of the war on terror, frightening natural disasters, and danger seemingly lurking around every corner, it’s impossible to prepare for every eventuality. But Junius Podrug, the author of Stop Being...


Solar Flares: What You Need to Know: A Special from Tarcher/Penguin

by Whitley Strieber

There is a force out there that could destroy our world in minutes. . . .

 

Solar flares—brief bursts of radiation from our sun—have always existed and have never been particularly dangerous. Nature...


Green Innovation in China: China's Wind Power Industry and the Global Transition to a Low-Carbon Economy

by Joanna I Lewis

As the greatest coal producing and consuming nation in the world, China would seem an unlikely haven for wind power. Yet the country now boasts a world-class industry that promises to make low-carbon technology...


SuperFuel

by Richard Martin

 A riveting look at how an alternative source of energy is revoluntionising nuclear power, promising a safe and clean future for millions, and why thorium was sidelined at the height of the Cold War

 

In this...


But Will the Planet Notice?

by Gernot Wagner

You are one of seven billion people on Earth. Whatever you or I do personally—eat tofu in a Hummer or hamburgers in a Prius—the planet doesn’t notice. In our confrontation with climate change, species...


How We Can Save the Planet

by Mayer Hillman, Tina Fawcett & Sudhir Chella Rajan

An outstanding overview on global warming---and what we can do about it---from a distinguished world-class authority

Climate change is the single biggest problem that humankind has ever had to face, as we continue...


When Oil Peaked

by Kenneth S. Deffeyes

In two earlier books, Hubbert’s Peak (2001) and Beyond Oil (2005), the geologist Kenneth S. Deffeyes laid out his rationale for concluding that world oil production would continue to follow a bell-shaped curve,...


The Last Atoll: Exploring Hawai'i's Endangered Ecosystems

by Pamela Frierson

The Last Atoll is a first-person account of journalist Pamela Frierson’s ten-year exploration of the exotic and ecologically significant small lands at the far northwestern end of the Hawaiian island chain....