The season brings important new books by climate scientists, conservationists, activists, and novelists.

These aren’t books that will get filed under “climate change” or “wildlife,” but they all offer a glimpse into our changing world.

…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.

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

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

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

Protecting women’s rights and the environment go hand-in-hand in these new books, which also celebrate female leaders and scientists.

Writers like Kim Stanley Robinson, Barry Lopez, Sy Montgomery and others celebrate the fragile beauty of this modern world — and address how to help save it.