Environment

Weaving together humorous anecdotes with moments of victory and hope, this powerful full-color graphic novel by Eddie Ahn explores the relationship between immigration and activism, opportunity and obligation, and familial duty and community service. Read more

Erika Howsare investigates our connection with deer—from mythology to biology, from forests to cities, from coexistence to control and extermination—and invites readers to contemplate the paradoxes of how humans interact with and shape the natural world. Read more

Encompassing identity, inspiration, ancestry, and stewardship, the essays and poems by leading Black women and nonbinary scientists explore how experiences in the natural world and life sciences shape the self. Edited by Shaz Zamore and Amber Wendler Read more

By Heather McTeer Toney. "A persuasive case for why Black activists should be at the forefront of the environmental movement." Publishers Weekly Read more

The Ultra-Wealthy and the Remaking of the American West.
A revealing look at the intersection of wealth, philanthropy, and conservation.
By Justin Farrell Read more

In this A Sand County Almanac for the twenty-first century, nature writer and zoologist Mary Taylor Young tells the story of the growing effects of climate change on her land in the pine-covered foothills of southern Colorado. Read more

Taylor Brorby’s Boys and Oil is a haunting, bracingly honest memoir about growing up gay amidst the harshness of rural North Dakota, “a place where there is no safety in a ravaged landscape of mining and fracking.” Read more

Breathwork guide and meditation teacher Matteo Pistono offers a how-to book for upgrading your nervous system to live your optimal life physically, emotionally, and spiritually. Read more

Created to honor Seattle Audubon's 100th anniversary by Various Authors , Constance Sidles (Editor). Read more

An eye-opening account of the global ecological transformations wrought by roads, from the award-winning author of Eager, Ben Goldfarb . Read more

History has portrayed Australia’s First Peoples, the Aboriginals, as hunter-gatherers who lived on an empty, uncultivated land. History is wrong. Bruce Pascoe uncovers evidence that contradicts that view. Read more

Jason Roberts weaves a sweeping narrative spell, exploring the intertwined lives and legacies of Linnaeus and Buffon—as well as the adventures of their acolytes—to trace an arc of discovery that extends across three centuries into the present day. Read more

A lifelong acolyte of the natural world, Annie Proulx brings her witness and research to the subject of wetlands and the vitally important role they play in preserving the environment—by storing the carbon emissions that accelerate climate change. Read more

In The Future Is Disabled, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha asks some provocative questions: What if, in the near future, the majority of people will be disabled—and what if that's not a bad thing? Read more

In Healing Grounds, Liz Carlisle tells the stories of Indigenous, Black, Latinx, and Asian American farmers who are reviving their ancestors’ methods of growing food—techniques long suppressed by the industrial food system. Read more

Homewaters: A Human and Natural History of Puget Sound by David B. Williams Read more