History

Winged wonders get the spotlight in these new environmental books covering our relationship with nature.

A modern movement to restore the lake symbolizes the broader contest between unsustainable industrialization and challenges such as climate change.

March’s best books examine how cities (and families) can fight climate change; look at the history of Earth Day; and reveal growing threats to the world’s wild spaces.

Most dam removals take years, often decades, of political, ecological and financial wrangling. A new book, Same River Twice, looks at three dam removals and what made them possible.

The Climate Narrative Project, started by author Jeff Biggers, is training a new generation of storytellers to help us meet the challenges of climate change.

What if we’d listened to the researchers who first warned us about plastic pollution in the 1970s?

State laws and policies in California have made some progress possible, but many tribes still lack legal recognition and struggle to maintain their cultural heritage and the environment.

A look at Poland’s growing ecological disaster — and its polluted past — shows how green ideals can wither on the vine.

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

This small, flightless bird, native to an atoll in the Pacific, went extinct as a direct result of World War II.