Culture

The removal of the Edwards Dam on Maine’s Kennebec River helped river conservationists reimagine what’s possible.

New books hitting shelves this month ask if we’re doomed (or at least how badly) while laying out critical solutions to the climate crisis.

The book takes an...unusual approach, but it still contains a few worthwhile concepts.

Books coming out this month look at saving snow leopards and killer whales, Buddhist and Muslim solutions to climate change, and new ways to grow food.

Books coming out this month also look at the ethics of conservation, the history of water and the exploitation of the Congo.

Sharon Levy’s new book offers a fascinating history of wetlands, their human-caused decline and our growing understanding of why we need to restore them.

Corrupted Science offers everything you need to know about the corporations and politicians attacking scientific expertise.

Books on our ballot this month look at wolves, turtles, animal activism, the psychology of climate change and a lot more.

In his new book, ethnobotanist Gary Paul Nabhan chronicles the efforts of “plant midwives,” women who are working to restore edible plants and healing herbs.

Books coming out this month include a series of terrifying climate-change novellas and a look at the occupation of Oregon’s Malheur Wildlife Refuge.