September 2024 Issue
Henry Gee
Spore to Spore
Close Encounters of the Fungal Kind: In Pursuit of Remarkable Mushrooms
By Richard Fortey
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September 2024 Issue
Druin Burch
Costing the Earth
Cull of the Wild: Killing in the Name of Conservation
By Hugh Warwick
The Lie of the Land: Who Really Cares for the Countryside?
By Guy Shrubsole
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September 2024 Issue
Felipe Fernández-Armesto
Smoke & Mirrors
The Burning Earth: An Environmental History of the Last 500 Years
By Sunil Amrith
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April 2024 Issue
Tom Fort
Shrub Crawl
Hedgelands: A Wild Wander around Britain’s Greatest Habitat
By Christopher Hart, with Jonathan Thomson
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February 2024 Issue
Justin Mundy
Reasons to Be Cheerful
How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet
By Hannah Ritchie
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May 2023 Issue
Caspar Henderson
Is It a Bird? Is It an eVTOL?
Flying Green: On the Frontiers of New Aviation
By Christopher de Bellaigue
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April 2023 Issue
Christopher Hart
Save the Planet, Eat Your Pug
Stuck Monkey: The Deadly Planetary Cost of the Things We Love
By James Hamilton-Paterson
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April 2023 Issue
Dan Saladino
Fork in the Road
Ravenous: How to Get Ourselves and Our Planet into Shape
By Henry Dimbleby with Jemima Lewis
Ultra-Processed People: Why Do We All Eat Stuff That Isn’t Food… and Why Can’t We Stop?
By Chris van Tulleken
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December 2022 Issue
Charles Foster
End of the Night?
The Darkness Manifesto: How Light Pollution Threatens the Ancient Rhythms of Life
By By Johan Eklöf (Translated from Swedish by Elizabeth DeNoma)
October 2022 Issue
Nigel Andrew
Plastic Purgatory
What We Leave Behind: A Birdwatcher’s Dispatches from the Waste Catastrophe
By Stanisław Lubieński (Translated from Polish by Zosia Krasodomska-Jones)
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August 2022 Issue
Nicolas Niarchos
Batteries Not Included
Volt Rush: The Winners and Losers in the Race to Go Green
By Henry Sanderson
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August 2022 Issue
Paul Morland
A Place in the Shade
Nomad Century: How to Survive the Climate Upheaval
By Gaia Vince
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August 2022 Issue
Barnaby Crowcroft
Drills & Spills
A Pipeline Runs Through It: The Story of Oil from Ancient Times to the First World War
By Keith Fisher
July 2022 Issue
J S Barnes
Fishy Business
Venomous Lumpsucker
By Ned Beauman
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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
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March 2022 Issue
Gillian Tindall
Where Estate Agents Fear to Tread
Shadowlands: A Journey Through Lost Britain
By Matthew Green
August 2021 Issue
Nigel Andrew
To Bee or Not to Bee
Silent Earth: Averting the Insect Apocalypse
By Dave Goulson
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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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