November 2023 Issue
Nigel Andrew
Canada Burning
Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World
By John Vaillant
LR
November 2023 Issue
Peter Moore
Freeze Frames
A Cold Spell: A Human History of Ice
By Max Leonard
LR
July 2023 Issue
Felipe Fernández-Armesto
Caught in the Thirst Trap
In Search of the River Jordan: A Story of Palestine, Israel and the Struggle for Water
By James Fergusson
Water and Peace: A Journey Through the World’s Most Explosive Conflict Zones in Search of Deep Water
By Alain Gachet
The Last Drop: Solving the World’s Water Crisis
By Tim Smedley
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September 2022 Issue
Julian Baggini
Save the Children’s Children
What We Owe the Future: A Million-Year View
By William MacAskill
August 2022 Issue
Paul Morland
A Place in the Shade
Nomad Century: How to Survive the Climate Upheaval
By Gaia Vince
LR
July 2022 Issue
J S Barnes
Fishy Business
Venomous Lumpsucker
By Ned Beauman
LR
June 2022 Issue
Peter Coates
In Deep Water
A Blue New Deal: Why We Need a New Politics for the Ocean
By Chris Armstrong
Rewilding the Sea: How to Save Our Oceans
By Charles Clover
LR
June 2022 Issue
Dan Saladino
Let Them Eat Fermented Protein
Regenesis: Feeding the World without Devouring the Planet
By George Monbiot
April 2022 Issue
John Vidal
To Hell in an Electric Handcart
Supercharge Me: Net Zero Faster
By Eric Lonergan & Corinne Sawers
Fire and Flood: A People’s History of Climate Change, from 1979 to the Present
By Eugene Linden
The Stockholm Paradigm: Climate Change and Emerging Disease
By Daniel R Brooks, Eric P Hoberg & Walter A Boeger
LR
February 2022 Issue
Nigel Andrew
Conifer Creep
The Treeline: The Last Forest and the Future of Life on Earth
By Ben Rawlence
LR
August 2021 Issue
Felipe Fernández-Armesto
Circling the Drain
Running Out: In Search of Water on the High Plains
By Lucas Bessire
LR
March 2021 Issue
Richard Heinberg
Can Big Tech Save the World?
How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need
By Bill Gates
Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future
By Elizabeth Kolbert
LR
September 2020 Issue
Michael Burleigh
Beyond the Black Stuff
The New Map: Energy, Climate and the Clash of Nations
By Daniel Yergin
LR
April 2020 Issue
Mark Malloch-Brown
Red, White & Green
Climate Change and the Nation State: The Realist Case
By Anatol Lieven
March 2020 Issue
Joan Smith
The Greens Next Door
Our House is on Fire: Scenes of a Family and a Planet in Crisis
By Beata Ernman, Malena Ernman, Greta Thunberg & Svante Thunberg (Translated from Swedish by Paul Norlen & Saskia Vogel)
March 2019 Issue
Russell Shorto
An Uncommon Cold
Nature’s Mutiny: How the Little Ice Age Transformed the West and Shaped the Present
By Philipp Blom
LR
June 2018 Issue
Mark Maslin
Poles Apart
The Wizard and the Prophet: Two Groundbreaking Scientists and Their Conflicting Visions of the Future of Our Planet
By Charles C Mann
LR
December 2017 Issue
Robert Mayhew
Energising Evolution
Inheritors of the Earth: How Nature Is Thriving in an Age of Extinction
By Chris D Thomas
Rise of the Necrofauna: The Science, Ethics, and Risks of De-Extinction
By Britt Wray
LR
December 2017 Issue
Samanth Subramanian
Muddy Waters
River of Life, River of Death: The Ganges & India's Future
By Victor Mallet
LR
October 2015 Issue
Robert Mayhew
Engineering the Skies
The Planet Remade: How Geoengineering Could Change the World
By Oliver Morton
LR
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