“I am convinced that, for the moment, the most common point of view is: ‘How little can we spend on the bees and still get them to make honey?’ If some beekeeper says, ‘Feed them sugar water,’ their point of view must be: ‘Because it’s cheaper than honey...

Celebrate the weird, wacky, and wonderful world of plants with a book that revels in the diversity of the botanical world.Plants are truly awe-inspiring. They can be vast, minute, smelly, or spectacularly ugly. Some plants live on their own, or by...

Examines the effects of European contact and the fur trade on the relationship between Indians and animals in eastern Canada, from Lake Winnipeg to the Canadian Maritimes, focusing primarily on the Ojibwa, Cree, Montagnais-Naskapi, and Micmac tribes.

A first-of-its-kind pop-science journey into the hidden world of baby animalsEntire ecosystems rest on the shoulders (or tentacles, or jointed exoskeletons) of animal babies; it’s time we paid them more attention. In Nursery Earth, researcher Danna Staaf...

A New York Times Editors’ ChoiceNamed a Best Book of the Year in The New Yorker, Publishers Weekly, Chicago Tribune, and EcoLit BooksA USA Today Must-Read Summer Book"David Lipsky spins top-flight climate literature into cliffhanger entertainment." ―Zoë...

“Mind-blowing and soul-expanding.” ―Sy Montgomery, author of The Soul of an OctopusA behavioral ecologist’s riveting account of his decades-long obsession with octopuses: his discoveries, adventures, and new scientific understanding of their behaviors.Of...

What does the science of animal intelligence mean for how we understand and live with the wild creatures around us?Honeybees deliberate democratically. Rats reflect on the past. Snakes have friends. In recent decades, our understanding of animal...

A sweeping history of the Mississippi River―and the centuries of human meddling that have transformed both it and America.The Mississippi River lies at the heart of America, an undeniable life force that is intertwined with the nation’s culture and...

In the bitter winds of autumn 1963, Tove Jansson, helped by Brunström, a maverick fisherman, raced to build a cabin on a treeless island in the Gulf of Finland. The island was Klovharun, where for thirty summers Tove and her beloved partner, the visual...

A genre-bending blend of naturalism, memoir, and social manifesto for rewilding the city, the self, and society.A Natural History of Empty Lots is a genre-defying work of nature writing, literary nonfiction, and memoir that explores what happens when...

An inspiring blend of nature writing and memoir that explores nature’s crucial role in our emotional and mental healthBats can hear shapes, plants can eat light, and bees can dance maps. When his life took him to a painfully dark place, the poet behind...

From entomologist Barrett Klein comes a buzz-worthy exploration of the many ways insects have affected human society, history, and cultureInsects surround us. They fuel life on Earth through their roles as pollinators, predators, and prey, but rarely do...

In this sweeping work of science and history, the renowned climate scientist and author of The New Climate War shows us the conditions on Earth that allowed humans not only to exist but thrive, and how they are imperiled if we veer off course.For the...

From “a captivating storyteller” (Wall Street Journal), the natural history of humankind told through our long relationship with birdsFor the whole of human history, we have lived alongside birds. We have hunted and domesticated them for food; venerated...

The 10th anniversary edition of the landmark book on the remarkable effects of water on our health and well-being.A decade ago, marine biologist Dr. Wallace J. Nichols revolutionized how we think about our connection to water, exploring the questions...

Superstorms, hurricanes, typhoons, and spiraling freak weather: the fallout of global warming is a real-life natural thriller, as captured in Porter Fox’s urgent and stunning story of chasing the world’s most devastating storms.Here is the story of the...

Learn all you need to know about identifying and attracting finches with this comprehensive, gloriously colorful field guide from America’s foremost authorities on birds and nature.Following the extraordinary finch superflight of 2020-2021, birders...

An evolutionary biologist tells the story of nature’s toxins and why we are attracted—and addicted—to them, in this “magisterial, fascinating, and gripping tour de force” (Neil Shubin). A deadly secret lurks within our spice racks, medicine cabinets,...