Culture

While in lockdown, artist Mesa Schumacher took her fans around the world by drawing a new species every day.

The Global South and communities of color in Global North countries disproportionately face harms from climate change, writes Ugandan climate activist Vanessa Nakate in her new book, A Bigger Picture.

Whether you’re into literary fiction, thrillers, sci-fi or comics, these new novels help us explore the complex geographies of climate change, pollution and the extinction crisis.

Warming temperatures are transforming northern peatlands — with potentially dire consequences for biodiversity and the climate.

A conservation scientist would miss these delightfully bizarre fish if they went extinct, but there’s more to saving them than their looks.

A trip to a remote Newfoundland island to visit one of the last strongholds of the extinct great auks.

These books offer essential lessons for talking to a science-denying neighbor, local elected officials, your kids or the corporations causing our worst problems.

If we are to successfully restore the natural world, we’ll need to focus on some of the smallest creatures in the ecosystem, says the author of the new book, Rebugging the Planet.

What if moose, mighty and massive, went the way of bison and other once-abundant species?

Pesticides, sewage, mining waste, air pollution and trash — these new books address the toxic elements in our society.