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

Train derailments and chemical disasters could happen in any community — even yours.

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

In north Brazil, the combined effects of a hydroelectric dam and earth-shifting livestock have altered the landscape — and upended peoples’ lives.

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

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

Black people like nature, too. But you wouldn’t know it from looking at outdoor magazines — at least not before Outdoor Afro got started.

Disadvantaged communities have suffered disproportionately from underinvestment in clean and affordable water. That could change with legislation passed last year.

The health risks from tiny airborne particulate matter may soon face stricter federal regulation. But improving air quality remains a complex challenge.

The “invisible monsters” of climate change and extinction stalk us all, but these experts in terror also remind us that fighting monsters helps create hope.