Geology and Earth Science

Author Maria Mudd Ruth fell in love with clouds the same way she stumbles into most passions: madly and unexpectedly. A Sideways Look at Clouds is the story of her quite accidental infatuation with and education about the clouds above. Read more

By Clive Oppenheimer. Meeting with volcanoes around the world, a volcanologist interprets their messages for humankind. Read more

Our relationship to the Moon changed when Apollo astronauts landed on it in 1969, and it’s about to change again. As governments and billionaires aim to profit from its resources, Rebecca Boyle shows that the Moon belongs to everybody, and nobody at all. Read more

In Underland, Robert Macfarlane delivers an epic exploration of the Earth’s underworlds as they exist in myth, literature, memory, and the land itself. Read more