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The crackling memoir of a middle-aged urbanite who decides to cross the US by bicycle—4,000 agonizing miles—to face down the aging infrastructure of his body, and American mobility A tech and science writer living in Brooklyn, Clive Thompson grew up as a classic '80s video-game nerd...

A gripping, immersive tour of the front lines in today’s battle for environmental justice and ecological sanity, where civil disobedients, clandestine organizers, and Indigenous resisters are taking direct action in the fight for a livable future This year may be the hottest in our planet’s...

Governments aren't arresting climate change. What's stopping them? And how can they start? The Paris Agreement was meant to mark a turning point in the fight against climate change. Yet a decade later, the world remains dangerously off track. Why have governments failed to meet their commitments?...

Discover the extraordinary hidden life of the Gulf Stream, and why this vast system of Atlantic currents is one of the most important, and least understood, forces on Earth. Our world is a freak of nature. The stable climate that allowed complex life – and human civilisation – to flourish...

A hopeful invitation for environmental change As the Earth undergoes profound environmental changes and the powers-that-be ignore them, many of us feel disempowered and at a loss for how to process and move forward. The conversation around environmentalism has become inaccessible to many and has...

A gripping, edge-of-your-seat account on the new Cold War unfolding at the ends of the Earth – where the US, Russia and China battle for control of the North and South Poles. As the ice melts, the race for control of the Arctic and Antarctic is heating up. Battle for the Ends of the Earth...

An acclaimed science writer and cultural critic confronts the question of what it means to have a child in the face of climate catastrophe in this urgent call to imagine radically transformed futures. When Meehan Crist was eight months pregnant, a young woman asked her a difficult...

A single-sitting read of exhilarating energy and beauty, Rig 83 reconstructs a two-week shift on a North Sea oil rig in 1980, where Jonathan Lichtenstein was one of the lucky men who got paid serious money to do the lethal work behind a deadly business – and survived. Two hundred miles from...

A sweeping American epic of rivers, oil, and the rule of law—from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Rising Tide and The Great Influenza In Water and Oil, John Barry traces three great rivers and the struggle to control them: the Missouri, bearing the soil of the Great Plains; the...

'An essential waybook for a bewildered world' NANCY CAMPBELL, author of Thunderstone and Fifty Words for Snow 'A powerful and evocative exploration of disaster and collapse, resilience and renewal' SHAFIK MEGHJI, author of Small Earthquakes This is not a book about the end of the world - it's...

Renowned economic historian and "crisis whisperer" Adam Tooze (Crashed) tells the story of climate change as the first truly global crisis of our time—and the struggle that is shifting the center of power from the West to China For decades, climate change was framed as a Western drama...

'Spellbinding, elegant, and urgent . . . Held me from the first moment to the last' Katherine Rundell The great quest of Augustine's life was for truth. This was his true fire. Today, we are still the product of Augustine's thinking, only most of us don't know it. Our world is shaped by his...

A blueprint for how we can collectively build a thriving world, from a leading behavioural scientist Eat healthily, cut back on alcohol, quit smoking, cycle to work, fly less – we all know what we should be doing. So why don’t we? The answer is both simple and radical: the world is stacked...

An outrageous story of dreamers and schemers, and a warning for the present For millennia, humans have been trying – or claiming – to influence the weather. We have thought up ever more audacious and technologically advanced ways to change our climate to suit our needs, from performing human...

The issues around 'climate' range across all aspects of the global system, including the different components that have controlled climate on Earth throughout its history, as well as how solar energy is able to reach the Earth, how it is redistributed around the planet by the ocean-atmosphere...

The lives of the world’s poorest are already harder, hotter, and shorter, thanks to the actions and emissions of the world’s richest. But just as the rich world’s emissions are finally falling, emissions from poorer countries are set to increase drastically. We seem to be caught in an...

A joyful love letter to the cold and an impassioned call for its conservation Global warming is often discussed as an issue of heat—but the even more pressing issue, as our planetary thermometer continues its slow rise, is one of cold. Cold places are warming at a faster rate than hot places...

A profound and lyrical meditation on humanity's relationship with snow—and what it would mean to live without it Humans have never lived on an Earth without snow, but as global temperatures rise, snowfall, snowpack, and snow cover are diminishing. The frozen world is softening. Confronting...

Read by the author, Emily Cunningham. How can we save the ocean? And how can the ocean save us? From protecting nesting sea turtles on the beaches of Sri Lanka and deep-sea diving in the icy waters of Antarctica to taking school children in England to see the sea for the first time...

The untold story of an iconic river, from its origins to its possible futures on a rapidly warming planet The Nile River has captivated explorers and scientists for centuries, and its age and origins have been the subject of intense speculation since at least the days of Herodotus. The Nile...