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No One Is Too Small To Make a Difference

'Everything needs to change. And it has to start today' In August 2018 a fifteen-year-old Swedish girl, Greta Thunberg, decided not to...

The Uninhabitable Earth - A Story of the Future

It is worse, much worse, than you think. The slowness of climate change is a fairy tale, perhaps as pernicious as the one that says it...

Deep - Freediving, Renegade Science and What the Ocean Tells Us About Ourselves

Covering a diving championship in Greece on a hot and sticky assignment for Outside magazine, James Nestor discovered free diving. He had...

How to Avoid a Climate Disaster

In this urgent, authoritative book, Bill Gates sets out a wide-ranging, practical - and accessible - plan for how the world can get to ze...

The Ecology Book - Big Ideas Simply Explained

An accessible introduction to ecological science, with nearly one-hundred events and developments explained. Features quotes from leading...

Modern Approaches in Vegetation Monitoring

This volume includes contributions to a symposium entitled State of the Art in Vegetation Monitoring Approaches and organized by the Swis...

Composting for Sustainable Agriculture

The dramatic worldwide increase in agricultural and industrial productivity has created severe environmental problems. Soil and groundwat...

A Forest Journey - The Role of Trees in the Fate of Civilization

A Foundational Conservation Story Revived Ancient writers observed that forests always recede as civilizations develop and grow. The grea...

Beetles of the World - A Natural History

Beetles make up about a quarter of known animal species and are arguably the most diverse group of organisms on Earth: almost 400,000 spe...

Marine Biology - Comparative Ecology of Planet Ocean

Marine Biology: Comparative Ecology of Planet Ocean provides a learning tool to those who love the ocean to help them understand and lear...

An Introduction to Behavioural Ecology

This textbook helped to define the field of Behavioural Ecology. In this fourth edition the text has been completely revised, with new ch...

The living sea

Ecology and Conservation of Mountain Nyala (Tragelaphus buxtoni) - in Bale Mountains National Park in Ethiopia

Antelopes in Ethiopia are facing increasing challenges posed by anthropogenic pressures emanating from habitat destruction for human sett...

Global Biodiversity - Status of the Earth¿s Living Resources

Global Biodiversity is the most comprehensive compendium of conservation information ever published. It provides the first systematic rep...

Strangers at the German Shores. Fremd an deutschen Küsten

Immer mehr Algen und wirbellose Tiere aus Übersee werden in deutsche Küstengewässer verschleppt. Sie integrieren sich, aber verändern die...

Emerging Issues in Fish Larvae Research

This book deals with the fundamentals of key physiological mechanisms involved in the development and growth of fish larvae. Chapters inc...

The Global Environmental Catastrophe Has Begun!

Huge forest and bush fires, gigantic downpours, dying forests, floods, drought disasters, and tornadoes - almost daily reports of disaste...

Biodiversity of Armenia

Armenia is a small landlocked mountainous country located in the Southern Caucasus. It is a typical mountainous country, having its lowes...

Apocalypse Anytime - An Interspiritual Devotional for a World on Fire

In recent years, the term polycrisis has emerged to describe the tangled relationship between myriad crises on our planet and how they in...

Challenges in Tropical Coastal Zone Management - Experiences and Lessons Learned

This book focuses on tropical coasts, which are highly vulnerable due to a multitude of stressors. Population growth is substantial, habi...

How to Avoid a Climate Disaster

In this urgent, authoritative book, Bill Gates sets out a wide-ranging, practical - and accessible - plan for how the world can get to ze...

Wild Catalina Island - Natural Secrets and Ecological Triumphs

A year-round escape for one million annual tourists, Catalina Island is gaining popularity as a world-class eco-destination. Eighty-eight...

No One Is Too Small To Make a Difference

'We are the change and change is coming' In August 2018 a fifteen-year-old Swedish girl, Greta Thunberg, decided not to go to school o...

Ecology of Dunes, Salt Marsh and Shingle

Life in coastal sand dunes, salt marshes and shingle banks presents a variety of challenges to their inhabitants. By describing the inter...

The Ecology of a Salt Marsh

Ecologists have two long-standing ways to study large ecosystems such as lakes, forests, and salt-marsh estuaries. In the first, which G....

Tree Story - The History of the World Written in Rings

What if the stories of trees and people are more closely linked than we ever imagined?

Gaia's Web - How Digital Environmentalism Can Combat Climate Change, Restore Biodiversity, Cultivate Empathy, and Regenerate the Earth

"This book explores how tools of the Digital Age might be mobilized to solve our most pressing environmental challenges, from climate cha...

The Forest Unseen - A Year's Watch in Nature

A biologist reveals the secret world hidden in a single square meter of old-growth forest--a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the Pen/...

Ice Rivers - A Story of Glaciers, Wilderness and Humanity

Longlisted for the Wainwright PrizeShortlisted for the Richard Jeffries AwardThe story of one woman's passion for glaciersAs one of the w...

Sing Like Fish - how sound rules life under water

A captivating exploration of how underwater animals tap into sound to survive, and a clarion call for humans to address the ways we invad...

The Bathysphere Book - Effects of the Luminous Ocean Depths

The Bathysphere Book - Effects of the Luminous Ocean Depths

"A gorgeous account of William Beebe's 1934 Bathysphere expedition, the first-ever deep-sea voyage to the otherworldly environment 3,024 ...

Hiking Trails of the Pacific Northwest: Northern California, Oregon, Washington, Southwestern British Columbia - Northern California, Oregon, Washington, Southwestern British Columbia

Hike some of the most famous trails in the world, with the region's top guides right by your side. This official book celebrates the trai...

Biologia Centrali-Americana, or, Contributions to the Knowledge of the Fauna and Flora of Mexico and Central America Volume Atlas; Volume 4

Brown Seaweeds (Phaeophyceae) of Britain and Ireland

A comprehensive identification and reference guide to the brown seaweeds (Phaeophyceae) of Britain and Ireland with detailed descriptions...

The Songs of Trees - Stories from Nature's Great Connectors

The author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist The Forest Unseen visits with nature's most magnificent networkers - trees "Both a love song to...

Ecology: The Economy of Nature

Community Ecology

An accessible introduction to community ecology which looks at the linkages between communities separated in space (metacommunity dynamic...

Elemental - How Five Elements Changed Earth's Past and Will Shape Our Future

"Over the past four billion years of Earth's history, three organisms-cyanobacteria, plants, and humans--have altered the planet in profo...

Planet Earth III - Accompanies the Landmark Series Narrated by David Attenborough

The official tie-in to the third instalment in the legendary Planet Earth franchise Few places on Earth remain untouched by humans, creat...

A Primer of Ecological Statistics

A Primer of Ecological Statistics, Second Edition explains fundamental material in probability theory, experimental design, and parameter...

Plant Ecology - Origins, Processes, Consequences

This book presents a global and interdisciplinary approach to plant ecology, guiding students through essential concepts with real-world ...

Laser-based Environmental and Process Measurement

This book presents an overview of the latest in research and development of laser-based and optical measurement techniques, which are uni...

Trees Ancient and Modern - Woodland Cultures and Conservation

Leafed with illustrations and branching into many realms of human thought, an exploration of the beauty, importance, and precarity of for...

Poppy State - A Labyrinth of Plants and a Story of Beginnings

“The mother of intersectional Latinx identity.” —Cosmopolitan "Scorchingly good."—Cheryl Strayed “The most fearless writer in America.” —...

Weather Almanac 2026 - The Perfect Gift for Nature Lovers and Weather Watchers

The perfect gift for nature lovers and weather watchers. A fascinating month-by-month collection of facts, figures and explanations relat...

Why Whales Sing

Reconceives whale songs as a sophisticated sonar system, revealing incredible insights into these creatures' intelligence and behavior. W...

Earth on Fire: Brewing Plagues and Climate Chaos in Our Backyards

The pandemic of 2020-2022 killed millions of people the world over. It shut down countries and economies. It caused tremendous anxiety. P...

Ocean Beach - Fog, Fauna, and Flora

A charmingly illustrated nature guide to Ocean Beach and the coastal ecology of San Francisco. Grab your beach blanket and your puffy jac...

The Restless Coast - A Journey Around the Edge of Britain

Britain is defined by the dynamic, mysterious and fragile coastline that surrounds it. In this moving and beautiful account, Roger Morgan...

The Secret Life of a Cemetery - The Wild Nature and Enchanting Lore of Père-Lachaise

"For Benoãit Gallot, Páere Lachaise is best explored without a guide: You're guaranteed to lose your way. You'll feel as though you've st...

Brown Bears in Alaska's National Parks - Conservation of a Wilderness Icon

Brown bears are powerful symbols of wilderness, thriving in the vast, untamed ecosystems of Alaska's remote national parks. Brown Bears i...

Ocean - Earth's Last Wilderness

From the icy oceans of our poles to remote coral islands, David Attenborough has filmed in every ocean habitat on planet earth. Now, with...

Trails Across Missouri - The Katy and Rock Island

Kansas Landscapes - A Photographic Tour of the Region's Geological History

"If we view the natural world in the context of time, everything we see becomes a story. Nothing can be truly understood without referenc...

Oceanic Dolphins - Ridgway and Harrison's Handbook of Marine Mammals, Volume 2

Oceanic Dolphins: Ridgway and Harrison's Handbook of Marine Mammals, Volume Two in the Handbook of Marine Mammals series, focuses on dolp...

Ghosts Behind Glass - Encountering Extinction in Museums

"Ghosts behind Glass is a moving exploration of displays of extinct animals in museums around the world. Dolly J²rgensen, a historian of ...

Aquatic Habitats - Aquariums Inspired by Nature

In Aquatic Habitats, Tai Strietman transports readers from their living rooms to wild and beautiful freshwater habitats around the world.

The Soils of Poland

This book gives an extensive characterisation of the soils of Poland, as well as information about soil-forming environment, soil cover d...

The Dark Frontier - Unlocking the Secrets of the Deep Sea