From "Winter Wonderland" to "Snowmageddon," we've had a long, love-hate relationship with snow. This entertaining look at snow in all its delightful and fearsome manifestations delves into science, history, economics, and popular culture to examine snow's enduring hold on the imagination. Through profiles and anecdotes, the author discusses the ......
Does Climate Change Mean the World is Cooling, and If So What Should We Do About It?
Although the world's climate has undergone many cyclical changes, the phrase 'climate change' has taken on a sinister meaning, implying catastrophe for humanity, ecology and the environment. We are told that we are responsible for this threat, and that we should act immediately to prevent it. But the apparent scientific consensus over the causes ......
A new paradigm for developing a sustainable solution for the economy and the food chain A Taste for Change argues that civil society must take the initiative to create a new paradigm of existence that centers on the common good, ecological transition, and active involvement in the development of a sustainable solution for the economy and the food ......
A captivating story of environmental crisis and community on Smith Island in the Chesapeake Bay. Island environments are particularly vulnerable to the impacts of rapidly rising waters, accelerating ecological crisis. While we often think of this environmental reality in terms of the Global North and South, Alaska, or Micronesian or Indian ......
Unsettling explores human impacts on the environment through science, popular culture, personal narrative, and landscape. Elizabeth Weinberg argues that climate change is a direct result of white supremacy, colonialism, sexism, and heteronormativity. The time has come to reimagine our relationship to the environment before it is too late.
Environmental Collapse, Climate Crisis, and the Fate of Humanity
Confronting harsh ecological realities and the multiple cascading crises facing our world today, An Inconvenient Apocalypse argues that humanity's future will be defined not by expansion but by contraction. For decades, our world has understood that we are on the brink of an apocalypse-and yet the only implemented solutions have been small and ......
Explores and estimates the intermediate-term security risks that climate change may pose for the United States, its allies and partners, and for regional and global order through the year 2030.
1957's International Geophysical Year and the Future of Our Planet
In 1957, 6,000 scientists from 66 nations achieved the impossible: they erased political borders for 18 months to unlock Earths greatest mysteries—and changed science forever.
The International Geophysical Year (IGY) of 1957 marked humanitys first unified effort to understand our planet, launching the space race, ......
