Earth & Planetary Sciences Books

Extraction to Extinction
by David Howe
Review
A Natural History of the Future
by Rob Dunn
Review
Guardians of the Trees
by Kinari Webb
Review
Meltdown
by Jorge Daniel Taillant
Review
Atlas of the Invisible
by James Cheshire and Oliver Uberti
Review
Silent Earth
by Dave Goulson
Review
Super Volcanoes
by Robin George Andrews
Review
Across the Airless Wilds
by Earl Swift
Review
Warmth
by Daniel Sherrell
Review
Disasterology
by Samantha Montano
Review
The Uncommon Knowledge of Elinor Ostrom
by Erik Nordman
Review
The Arbornaut
by Meg Lowman
Review
After Cooling
by Eric Dean Wilson
Review
The Brilliant Abyss
by Helen Scales
Review
Plastic: An Autobiography
by Allison Cobb
Review
On Nature
by Douglas Chadwick
Review
Unsettled
by Steven E. Koonin
Review
Holding Back the River
by Tyler J. Kelley
Review
Second Nature
by Nathaniel Rich
Review
Robots in Space
by Dr Ezzy Pearson
Review
Ice: Tales from a Disappearing World
by Marco Tedesco
Review
Heartwarming
by Hans Rocha Ijzerman
Review
The Mission
by David W. Brown
Review
Grand Transitions
by Distinguished Professor Emeritus Vaclav Smil, Vaclav Smil
Review
Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future
by Elizabeth Kolbert
Review
The New Climate War
by Michael E. Mann
Review
How to Prepare for Climate Change
by David Pogue
Review
The Carbon Club
by Marian Wilkinson
Review
Waters of the World
by Sarah Dry
Review
Waste: One Woman’s Fight Against America’s Dirty Secret
by Catherine Coleman Flowers
Review
Operation Moonglow
by Teasel Muir-Harmony
Review
All We Can Save
by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, Katharine K. Wilkinson
Review
The Genesis Quest
by Michael Marshall
Review
A Furious Sky
by Eric Jay Dolin
Review
Footprints: In Search of Future Fossils
by David Farrier
Review
The Future Earth
by Eric Holthaus
Review
The Smallest Lights in the Universe
by Sara Seager
Review
Disposable City: Miami’s Future on the Shores of Climate Catastrophe
by Mario Alejandro Ariza
Review
Disposable City: Miami’s Future on the Shores of Climate Catastrophe
by Sarah Stewart Johnson
Review
How We’ll Live on Mars
by Stephen Petranek
Review
Trees in Trouble: Wildfires, Infestations, and Climate Change
by Daniel Mathews
Review
Land of Wondrous Cold
by Gillen D'Arcy Wood
Review
Fighting Pollution and Climate Change
by Richard W. Emory, Jr.
Review
The Story of More
by Hope Jahren
Review
Hacking Planet Earth
by Thomas M. Kostigen
Review
Tales of Two Planets
by John Freeman, Margaret Atwood, Arundhati Roy, et al
Review
The Green New Deal and Beyond
by Stan Cox
Review
The Future We Choose
by Christiana Figueres and Tom Rivett-Carnac
Review
The View from Space
by Richard B. Leshner, Thor Hogan
Review
Alien Oceans
by Kevin Hand
Review
Galileo: And the Science Deniers
by Mario Livio
Review
The Ocean Reader
by Eric Paul Roorda
Review
Spacefarers
by Christopher Wanjek
Review
Nature’s Explorers
by Natural History Natural History Museum
Review
Embracing Sufficiency
by Joseph Stadtmiller
Review
Life Changing: How Humans are Altering Life on Earth
by Helen Pilcher
Review
Chasing New Horizons
by Alan Stern, David Grinspoon
Dr Space Junk vs The Universe
by Alice Gorman
Review
No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference
by Greta Thunberg
Review
Exoplanets: Hidden Worlds and the Quest for Extraterrestrial Life
by Donald Goldsmith
Review
The Moon: A History for the Future
by Oliver Morton
Review
After Geoengineering: Climate Tragedy, Repair, and Restoration
by Holly Jean Buck
Review
The Secret Lives of Planets: A User’s Guide to the Solar System
by Paul Murdin
Review
The Big Ones
by Dr Lucy Jones
Review
On Fire: The Burning Case for a Green New Deal
by Naomi Klein
Review
Alexander von Humboldt: How the Most Famous Scientist of the Romantic Age Found the Soul of Nature
by Maren Meinhardt
Review
The Geography of Risk
by Gilbert M. Gaul
Review
Rainforest: Dispatches from Earth’s Most Vital Frontlines
by Tony Juniper
Review
We Are the Weather
by Jonathan Safran Foer
Review
The Environment: A History of the Idea
by Paul Warde, Libby Robin and Sverker Sörlin
Review
The Weather Machine: How We See Into the Future
by Andrew Blum
Review
One Giant Leap: The Impossible Mission That Flew Us to the Moon
by Charles Fishman
Review
The Women of the Moon: Tales of Science, Love, Sorrow, and Courage
by Daniel R. Altschuler and Fernando J. Ballesteros
Review
Every Breath You Take: A User’s Guide to the Atmosphere
by Mark Broomfield
Review
The Ice at the End of the World: An Epic Journey Into Greenland’s Buried Past and Our Perilous Future
by Jon Gertner
Review
Chasing the Moon
by Robert Stone and Alan Andres
Review
The End of Ice: Bearing Witness and Finding Meaning in the Path of Climate Disruption
by Dahr Jamail
Review
Earth-Shattering: Violent Supernovas, Galactic Explosions, Biological Mayhem, Nuclear Meltdowns, and Other Hazards to Life in Our Universe
by Bob Berman
Review
The Dreamt Land: Chasing Water and Dust Across California
by Mark Arax
Review
Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?
by Bill McKibben
Review
The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable
by Amitav Ghosh
Review
The Fate of Food: What We’ll Eat in a Bigger, Hotter, Smarter World
by Amanda Little
Review
The Uninhabitable Earth
by David Wallace-Wells
Review
Underland: A Deep Time Journey
by Robert Macfarlane
Review
Horizon
by Barry Lopez
Review
Universe Owners’ Workshop Manual: From 13.8 billion years ago to the infinite future – An insight into the study of the universe and our place in it
by David M Harland
Review
Losing Earth: A Recent History
by Nathaniel Rich
Review
Origins: How The Earth Made Us
by Lewis Dartnell
Review
Burning Up: A Global History of Fossil Fuel Consumption
by Simon Pirani
Review
In Search of the Canary Tree: The Story of a Scientist, a Cypress, and a Changing World
by Lauren E. Oakes
Review
Ad Astra: An Illustrated Guide to Leaving the Planet
by Dallas Campbell
Review
A Bright Future: How Some Countries Have Solved Climate Change and the Rest Can Follow
by Joshua S. Goldstein and Staffan A. Qvist
Review
Underground: A Human History of the Worlds Beneath Our Feet
by Will Hunt
Review
Extreme Conservation: Life at the Edges of the World
by Joel Berger
Review
Call of the Reed Warbler: A New Agriculture, A New Earth
by Charles Massy
Review
Around the World in 80 Trees
by Jonathan Drori
Review
The Story of the Earth in 25 Rocks: Tales of Important Geological Puzzles and the People Who Solved Them
by Donald R. Prothero
Review
The End of the End of the Earth: Essays
by Jonathan Franzen
Review
The Ends of the World: Volcanic Apocalypses, Lethal Oceans and Our Quest to Understand Earth’s Past Mass Extinctions
by Peter Brannen
Review
Brief Answers to the Big Questions: the final book from Stephen Hawking
by Stephen Hawking
Review
18 Miles: The Epic Drama of Our Atmosphere and Its Weather
by Christopher Dewdney
Review
Catching Stardust: Comets, Asteroids and the Birth of the Solar System
by Natalie Starkey
Review
The Equations of Life: How Physics Shapes Evolution
by Charles S. Cockell
Review
Brave New Arctic: The Untold Story of the Melting North
by Mark C. Serreze
Review
The Consolations of Physics: Why the Wonders of the Universe Can Make You Happy
by Tim Radford
Review
Light of the Stars: Alien Worlds and the Fate of the Earth
by Adam Frank
Review
Spinning Magnet, The The Force That Created the Modern World – and Could Destroy It
by Alanna Mitchell
Review
The Design and Engineering of Curiosity: How the Mars Rover Performs Its Job
by Emily Lakdawalla
Review
Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore
by Elizabeth Rush
Review
The Many Lives of Carbon
by Dag Olav Hessen
Review
The Future of Humanity: Terraforming Mars, Interstellar Travel, Immortality, and Our Destiny Beyond Earth (Random House Large Print)
by Michio Kaku
Review
The Wizard and the Prophet: Two Remarkable Scientists and Their Dueling Visions to Shape Tomorrow’s World
by Charles C Mann
Review
Quakeland: Preparing for America’s Next Devastating Earthquake
by Kathryn Miles
Review
The Fracking Debate: The Risks, Benefits, and Uncertainties of the Shale Revolution (Center on Global Energy Policy Series)
by Daniel Raimi
Review
The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World
by Jeff Goodell
Review
In Search of Stardust: Amazing Micrometeorites and Their Terrestrial Imposters
by Jon Larsen
Review
11 Explorations into Life on Earth: Christmas Lectures from the Royal Institution
by Helen Scales
Review
Life through Time and Space
by Wallace Arthur, Stephen Arthur
Review
The Search For Earth’s Twin
by Stuart Clark
Review
Planet Hunters: The Search for Extraterrestrial Life
by Lucas Ellerbroek
Review

Articles

Claude Science is Anthropic’s newest flagship product
DeepMind Says Its AI Can Predict Hurricanes Earlier Than Everyone Else
AI Tools May Be Weakening the Quality of Published Research, Study Warns
MMX mission – The journey to the Martian moon Phobos
AI-driven weather prediction breakthrough reported
Mozambique Retools Weather Tech for Effective Forecasting
Google DeepMind’s new AI model is the best yet at weather forecasting
New AI tool generates realistic satellite images of future flooding
Life-seeking, ice-melting robots could punch through Europa’s icy shell
Nvidia’s latest AI climate model takes aim at severe weather
Google’s new weather prediction system combines AI with traditional physics
Faced with dwindling bee colonies, scientists are arming queens with robots and smart hives
The high-tech race to improve weather forecasting
Earth’s ‘geological thermostat’ is too slow to prevent climate change
Lasers Shot At Sky Can Guide Lightning
China Says It May Have Solved a Mystery on the Moon’s Surface
Europe’s largest rare earth deposit found in Sweden
Mars had long-lived magnetic field, extending chances for life
NASA Mars Rover Finds ‘Very, Very Strange Chemistry’ and Ingredients for Life
Blasting rock with microwaves could unlock the key to geothermal energy
Air pollution cools climate more than expected – this makes cutting carbon emissions more urgent
Carbon-busting hemp could help transform Scottish agriculture to zero emissions
The Horn of Africa has had years of drought, yet groundwater supplies are increasing – why?
World Headed in Wrong Direction on Five Key Measures of Climate Progress, Report Finds
Glaciers in the Alps are melting faster than ever – and 2022 was their worst summer yet
European Airlines Misleading Fliers With Carbon-Neutral Claims, Research Finds
Geothermal May Beat Batteries for Energy Storage
Climate tipping points could lock in unstoppable changes to the planet – how close are they?
Insects will struggle to keep pace with global temperature rise – which could be bad news for humans
Methane Might Be a Bigger Climate Problem Than Thought, Study Finds
Western Arctic Ocean is acidifying four times faster than other oceans
As Carbon Dioxide Grows More Abundant, Trees Are Growing Bigger, Study Finds
NASA’s DART Spacecraft Smashes Into an Asteroid—on Purpose
Nord Stream gas leaks examined by scientists for climate damage
Loss of Arctic Sea Ice to Give Rise to More Strong El Niños, Study Finds
NASA’s unprecedented asteroid-deflection mission is more than ‘billiards in space,’ scientists say
China Discovers Stunning Crystal on the Moon, Nuclear Fusion Fuel for Limitless Energy
Crushed plastic bottles could create nanodiamonds for quantum sensors
Carbon dioxide detected around alien world for first time
Jellyfish alert: increased sightings signal dramatic changes in ocean food web due to climate change
The world’s biggest ice sheet is more vulnerable to global warming than scientists previously thought
Arctic is warming nearly four times faster than the rest of the world – new research
Thousands more species at risk of extinction than currently recorded, suggests new study
Climate Change Worsened Britain’s Heat Wave, Scientists Find
Climate change: why we can’t rely on regrowing coastal habitats to offset carbon emissions
Novel crystal puts greenhouse gas in a bind
See How Far Water Levels in Lake Mead Have Fallen
Amazon Sees Record High Deforestation in First Half of 2022
Methane emissions reach new highs despite pandemic – they are four times more sensitive to climate change than first thought
Biodiversity Crisis Affects Billions Who Rely on Wild Species, Researchers Say