September 2024 Issue Henry Gee Spore to Spore Close Encounters of the Fungal Kind: In Pursuit of Remarkable Mushrooms By Richard Fortey LR
September 2024 Issue Felipe Fernández-Armesto Smoke & Mirrors The Burning Earth: An Environmental History of the Last 500 Years By Sunil Amrith LR
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 LR
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) LR
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
February 2019 Issue Felipe Fernández-Armesto False Starts Origins: How the Earth Made Us By Lewis Dartnell LR
June 2017 Issue Charles Elliott Growing, Growing, Gone The Plant Messiah: Adventures in Search of the World’s Rarest Species By Carlos Magdalena LR
May 2013 Issue Stephen Moss How Green is Your Valley? Feral: Searching for Enchantment on the Frontiers of Rewilding By George Monbiot LR
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