From a deep dive on a fatal space shuttle disaster to a study of a dozen iconic trees, these are our favorite titles this year Joe Spring, Riley Black, Shi En Kim, Dan Falk, Christian Elliott and ...

Clues to our planet’s dramatic past are in the layers of rocks we might overlook. A great guide shows why they deserve our ...

“We Are All Animals” by Ben Hoare and Christopher Lloyd, illustrated by Mark Ruffle (What on Earth Books, ages 8 –12) This is ...

When Siberian volcanoes kicked off the Great Dying, the real climate villain turned out to be the rainforests themselves: once they collapsed, Earth’s biggest carbon sponge vanished, CO₂ rocketed, and ...

How Ancient India Transformed the World’ and Sunil Amrith’s ‘The Burning Earth: An Environmental History of the Last 500 Years’ are among six non-fiction works shortlisted for the British Academy Book ...