Books

…to read while it’s too hot to do anything else.

This month’s best new environmental books provide a healthy dose of hope while also tackling tough topics like pollution, extinction and trauma.

You can’t stop climate change or the extinction crisis without fighting inequality, injustice and conspiracies.

A new book looks at efforts to recover dwindling populations and what more is needed.

“Climate change is real and it is here, and it’s not going away. We need your help,” writes Joëlle Gergis in the new book Humanity’s Moment.

From wolves to climate change, these new books will help set the agenda for the year ahead.

From big bears to the boreal forests, here are some books that moved us and helped illuminate what’s worth fighting for. 

A new book investigates the toxic legacy of Hanford, the Washington state facility that produced plutonium for nuclear weapons.

Inspire the next generation of activists and conservationists with new these books celebrating wildlife and wild spaces.

If a book contains critical conservation messages but nobody reads it, does it make a difference?