Environment
Out of Gas: The End of the Age of Oil
Paperback
Science tells us that an oil crisis is inevitable. Why and when? And what will our future look like without our favorite fuel?
Outgrowing the Earth: The Food Security Challenge in an Age of Falling Water Tables and Rising Temperatures
Paperback
How human demands are outstripping the earth's capacities—and what we need to do about it.
Stormchasers: The Hurricane Hunters and Their Fateful Flight into Hurricane Janet
Paperback
Fifty years after Isaac's Storm, a riveting story of the first Hurricane Hunters, and the one crew who paid the ultimate price.
Great Waters: An Atlantic Passage
Paperback
"[L]yrical, analytical..a wonderful account that reveals an eclectic, comprehensive intelligence...a powerful and provocative synthesis; first-rate science journalism."—Kirkus Reviews, starred review
Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth-Century World
Paperback
"One of those rare books that’s both sweeping and specific, scholarly and readable…What makes the book stand out is its wealth of historical detail." —Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker