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 2020 Issue
Kieran Pender
Oiling the Wheels
Blowout: Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia, and the Richest, Most Destructive Industry on Earth
By Rachel Maddow
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July 2019 Issue
John Vidal
Try Not to Breathe
Choked: The Age of Air Pollution and the Fight for a Cleaner Future
By Beth Gardiner
Clearing the Air: The Beginning and the End of Air Pollution
By Tim Smedley
The Invisible Killer: The Rising Global Threat of Air Pollution – and How We Can Fight Back
By Gary Fuller
May 1989 Issue
Sonia Ashmore
Protest and Survive
The Greenpeace Story
By Michael Brown and John May
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February 2019 Issue
Felipe Fernández-Armesto
False Starts
Origins: How the Earth Made Us
By Lewis Dartnell
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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
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June 2017 Issue
Charles Elliott
Growing, Growing, Gone
The Plant Messiah: Adventures in Search of the World’s Rarest Species
By Carlos Magdalena
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October 2015 Issue
John Gribbin
Lunar Tics
Moonstruck: How Lunar Cycles Affect Life
By Ernest Naylor
October 2015 Issue
Robert Mayhew
Engineering the Skies
The Planet Remade: How Geoengineering Could Change the World
By Oliver Morton
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August 2015 Issue
Richard Kerridge
The Great Thinning
Rainbow Dust: Three Centuries of Delight in British Butterflies
By Peter Marren
The Moth Snowstorm: Nature and Joy
By Michael McCarthy
In Pursuit of Butterflies: A Fifty-Year Affair
By Matthew Oates
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June 2003 Issue
A C Grayling
Apocalypse Now
Our Final Century: Will The Human Race Survive the Twenty-First Century?
By Martin Rees
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July 2003 Issue
Fergus Fleming
Touching The Void
The Ice
By Stephen J Pyne
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September 2003 Issue
Christopher Ondaatje
Watching The River Flow
The Nile
By Robert O Collins
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March 2004 Issue
Jonathan Mirsky
Elephants, Never Forget
The Retreat of the Elephants: An Environmental History of China
By Mark Elwin
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November 2014 Issue
Robert Mayhew
Green Shoots
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs the Climate
By Naomi Klein
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July 2010 Issue
John Gribbin
Getting Warmer…
How to Find a Habitable Planet
By James Kasting
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April 2006 Issue
Crispin Tickell
Cutting Out Carbon
The Weather Makers: The History and Future Impact of Climate Change
By Tim Flannery
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April 2006 Issue
Abigail Green
Political Landscaping
The Conquest of Nature: Water, Landscape and the Making of Modern Germany
By David Blackbourn
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June 2012 Issue
Charles Clover
Up To Our Necks
Ocean of Life: How Our Seas Are Changing
By Callum Roberts
The World’s Beaches: A Global Guide to the Science of the Shoreline
By Orrin H Pilkey, William J Neal, Joseph T Kelley and J Andrew G Cooper
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