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Veteran traveller and textile expert Chris Aslan explores the Silk, Wool and Cotton Roads of Central Asia. Three textile roads tangle their way through Central Asia. The famous Silk Road...

The world is about to run out of cheap oil and change dramatically. Within the next few years, global production will peak. Thereafter, even if industrial societies begin to switch...

We know that we must change ourselves and the world if we want to survive. So why do we cling to old habits and false certainties instead of embracing change...

The problem started, as problems often do, with a penguin. From Kings and Emperors to Macaronis and Rockhoppers, penguins are one of the most immediately recognisable animals on Earth. Yet...

Life on 1/10th the fossil fuels turns out to be awesome. We all want to be happy. Yet as we consume ever more in a frantic bid for happiness, global...

Devastating natural disasters have profoundly shaped human history, leaving us with a respect for the mighty power of the earth-and a humbling view of our future. Paleontologist and geologist Donald...

An eye-of-the-hurricane view of storm chasing from the star of the Discovery Channel hit series Storm Chasers . Only one in ten chases actually intercept a tornado-unless you're Reed Timmer....

This book will show you all the ways YOU can change how you travel to help save the planet. Packed with 101 tips and tricks to reducing your carbon footprint...

*As featured in the NEW YORK TIMES* 'Every page feels alive with passion' - Sophie Pavelle, author of 'Forget Me Not' 'A beautiful book' - Levison Wood, author of 'Walking...

The problem started, as problems often do, with a penguin. From Kings and Emperors to Macaronis and Rockhoppers, penguins are one of the most immediately recognisable animals on Earth. Yet...

'Sometimes you need to repeat something a hundred times before a bell rings in the colony.' From the bestselling author Bruce Pascoe comes a deeply personal story about the consequences...

The powerful ways the metals we need to fuel technology and energy are spawning environmental havoc, political upheaval, and rising violence - and how we can do better. An Australian...

Climate is what you expect, weather is what you get. The weather, our daily experience of nature, affects the way we feel and act. It can change lives, particularly in...

Many scientists believe that we are on the brink of a new mass extinction, with at least a million species in danger of not making it through to the end...

AMAZING ILLUSTRATIONS: Explore Caroline Selme's intricately drawn underwater world, bursting with minute detail! ADDICTIVE GAMEPLAY: A matching game for the whole family with super-detailed underwater scenes that reward returning again...

. The behind-the-scenes true story of Paul Watson, the world's most famous eco-pirate and marine animal rights activist. Paul Watson became an animal rights activist at the young age of...

From epidemics and earthquakes to tornados and tidal waves, the overwhelming power of nature never ceases to instill humankind with both terror and awe. As natural disasters continue to claim...

The Great Auk is one of the world's most famous extinct birds. It was undoubtedly a most curious creature: a flightless bird with tiny wings, it stood upright like a...

World-renowned conservationist Bindi Irwin has a message for animal-loving kids: you can help protect the planet and all who call it home! Featuring exclusive Irwin family photos and animal fun...

Exploring recent climate changes in every corner of the globe, Our Earth, displays photographic evidence of recent, more serious events, including severe heatwaves, massive floods, and cyclones, and charts the...

'This is a rich, beautiful and deeply moving book' GEORGE MONBIOT 'I loved this book' CLOVER STROUD Once Upon a Raven's Nest is the story of a working class man,...

What have you got that needs using up? Open your fridge or pantry, check what's in your fruit bowl, then dive into these pages to turn whatever ingredients are on...

FUN FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY - everyone will love this traditional game featuring 64 of the world's best loved at-risk creatures to learn about and get inspired to save; PLAY...

'In this enlightening guide to container gardening, Ann Treneman comprehensively dispels the notion that growing plants in a pot is in any way a second-best option...the real strength of this...

An award-winning natural-history writer opens the door to the nature that thrives in our yards, gardens, and parks We all live on nature's doorstep, but we often overlook it. From...

One of BBC Wildlife 's books of the year "A book of great courage, curiosity, discovery and connection." - Amy-Jane Beer, author of The Flow A moving, honest and revealing...

Based on, and inspired by, the life and work of a man intrigued by the natural world. It is a synthesis of the results of many years of research on...

This work proposes a framework based on the concept of a fair distribution of environmental space to include the diverse needs of North and South. Drawing on research in 38...

Sacred Natural Sites are the world's oldest protected places. This book focuses on a wide spread of both iconic and lesser known examples such as sacred groves of the Western...

Global environmental change (GEC) represents an immediate and unprecedented threat to the food security of hundreds of millions of people, especially those who depend on small-scale agriculture for their livelihoods....

'Brilliant and fundamental, this is the necessary book about our prime global emergency' Ian McEwan The news is full of hotly debated and divergent claims about the impacts and risks...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE DRAGON AWARDS 2025 FINANCIAL TIMES' BEST SCIENCE FICTION BOOKS OF 2024 Charlie and Parker are punks by night, biohackers by day, living in the stuttering decay of...

Give old furniture a new lease of life, save money and help the planet with this beautifully illustrated guide to upcycling. Renovating tired old furniture can make it look as...

Bees are our most loyal ally. These fascinating, enigmatic creatures are a key lynchpin in the working of our planet. Without them the landscape, as well as every aisle in...

This is the story of how an ordinary bloke from the bush became the key figure in a movement that would change the shape of our cities and bring about...

A Financial Times BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021 'Engaging, authoritative and very timely. Marco Alvera spells Hydrogen's critical role as an energy store in the clean power transition' - Mike...

'In the wake of the strongest earthquake in Italy for nearly forty years and the many aftershocks that followed, Italians began speaking of the earth beneath our feet as la...

*A book of the year in the New York Times* 'I wish this book had been published five hundred years ago and been compulsory reading ever since' Jay Griffiths, author...

'Danticat offers an invaluable primer to the Haitian American experience in all its inherited trauma. Arguably she does for the Haitian diaspora what Junot Diaz has done for Dominican Americans'...

WINNER OF THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR CONSERVATION 2025 A WATERSTONES AND GUARDIAN BEST BOOK OF 2024 'Both dynamite and medicine' AMY-JANE BEER 'Timely and rousing' THE TIMES ________________________________ The lie...

What existential threats does humanity face? And how can we secure our future? ' The Precipice is a powerful book . . . Ord's love for humanity and hope for...

________________ WINNER OF THE 2015 PULITZER PRIZE FOR GENERAL NON-FICTION ________________ 'An invaluable contribution to our understanding of present circumstances, just as the paradigm shift she calls for is sorely...

By addressing themes such as social and economic change, government policy and gender relations, this volume tackles the thematic complexities of sustainability. At the heart of this discussion lies a...

The three biggest challenges facing the world today, in A. C. Grayling's view, are climate change, technology and justice. In his timely new book, he asks: can human beings agree...

This book explores the significance of human behaviour to understanding the causes and impacts of changing climates and to assessing varied ways of responding to such changes. So far the...

This volume explores these themes through a landscape-wide study of refugia and future climate in the tall, wet forests of the Central Highlands of Victoria. It represents a model case...

Drawing on complex systems theory, this book investigates how human societies deal with change in linked social-ecological systems, and build capacity to adapt to change. The concept of resilience is...

If global society is to address the many environmental and other sustainability challenges that confront us in the twenty-first century, such as climate change and water resources, it will be...