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

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.

“Weird Plants” author Chris Thorogood, a botanist and an artist, calls on us to see the marvels of plant life and the urgency of saving it.

An ambitious initiative aims to protect a 2,000-mile segment of the Continental Divide ecoregion and change how we think of conservation.

Buff-tailed bumblebees are robbing hummingbirds of nutrients — just one of several threats facing the tiny birds, a new book reveals. 

From the majesty of our feathered friends to the cultural cost of extinction, these new books help us examine the natural world.