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 LR
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 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
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
October 2015 Issue Robert Mayhew Engineering the Skies The Planet Remade: How Geoengineering Could Change the World By Oliver Morton LR
April 2006 Issue Crispin Tickell Cutting Out Carbon The Weather Makers: The History and Future Impact of Climate Change By Tim Flannery LR
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 LR
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