Books most popular in the United States●Environment

Check out the latest list of books that people in the United States are enjoying the most right now. The list is ordered by popularity and the genre of the list is Science & Nature > Environment.

1. The Climate Action Handbook - Heidi Roop. A Visual Guide to 100 Climate Solutions for Everyone

Release date: 2023-03-21 Genre:Science & Nature $10.99
2. Finding the Mother Tree - Suzanne Simard. Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest

Release date: 2021-05-04 $4.99
3. The World Without Us - Alan Weisman

Release date: 2007-07-10 $12.99
Comments

1. Good Content, Burdened Writing - I found the content of the book to be interesting enough to keep me reading to the end. The author does a good job of explaining how humans have impacted the world and how things would change if we weren't around. His speculations are based, as much as possible, on data about what we currently have to do to keep our world functioning and what has happened in places where humans have been excluded such as in the Korean DMZ and on Cyprus. The overall impression I got from the book was that humans are impressive in their ability to alter the world but that there is little to nothing we have done that will survive us for more than a few thousand years. The Natural world will consume it all. The book conveyed simultaneously a sense of grandeur and smallness of the human species, and i enjoyed that. There is a subtle conservation undertone to the book, but it is not nearly as loud as I thought it would be. The author certainly does not convey that the world would be better without us. He simply describes what things are like now, how things were before us, and how things might be after us. For the most part, I did not enjoy the author's writing style. It seemed too burdened with ornate descriptions when more direct sentences and paragraphs would have worked better. Each chapter is largely independent of the others. Although there is an overall theme for the book, the chapters do not tie together in a very elegant way. Occasionally knowledge gained in one chapter will be used to make a point in a later chapter, but those threads are thin. About half way through, I got tired of that lack of connection.
2010-09-12
4. Soil - Matthew Evans. The Incredible Story Of What Keeps The Earth, And Us, Healthy

Release date: 2021-07-02 $7.99
5. The Carbon Footprint of Everything - Mike Berners-Lee

Release date: 2022-04-26 Genre:Science & Nature $9.99
6. The Three Ages of Water - Peter Gleick. Prehistoric Past, Imperiled Present, and a Hope for the Future

Release date: 2023-06-13 $18.99
7. The Earth Transformed - Peter Frankopan. An Untold History

Release date: 2023-04-18 Genre:Science & Nature $14.99
8. Apocalypse Never - Michael Shellenberger. Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All

Release date: 2020-06-30 Genre:Science & Nature $18.99
Comments

1. Excellent, fact based - If you want to read a climate book by an internationally acclaimed environmental expert (worked for Obama & awarde Time’s Environmentalist of the year” in ), who separates out science from politicized claims, this is the book for you. I have raad about environmental issues for over years, and this is the most informative book that I have ever read.
2022-09-05

2. Become an environmental humanist. - Let’s stop blocking the developing world’s access to cheap, reliable electricity just because the source is fossil fuel. Let’s start installing more reliable nuclear power today while we work on unreliable, non-functional, expensive wind and solar technology.
2021-04-20

3. A combination of all that matters - This book is the first that I’ve found which examines the science and economics of solutions to our environmental challenges. If the reader is willing to question what they know and what they believe then this will help because it looks towards ways to create a brighter future for all humans and animals.
2020-07-05

4. What if everything you were told was a lie? - This is a big, fascinating and sprawling book on a massive grab-bag of topics. Here are a few takeaways. Use nuclear power, it has a zero carbon footprint and provides ample power for everyone. Be suspicious of wind and solar; it kills birds, and can only supply electricity a fraction of the time it’s needed, at staggering cost. Basically, it has almost no energy density and nuclear power has oodles, enough to let anyone who wants to power up a spiffy Tesla. Respect the dreams, asperations and desires of poor third world folks. Turns out they could really use some tasty fossil fuel based power. A lot of them have to spend their days collecting firewood, keeping the fire burning and hot enough to cook. It would. transform their lives to get an electric stove and get their food hot with the push of a button. And for God’s sake don’t listen to the international left. They just want to keep poor countries down so they can justify flying in their $ million private jets. Which have, by themselves, the carbon footprint of thousands of broke third world people.
2020-07-05
9. The Sun's Heartbeat - Bob Berman. And Other Stories from the Life of the Star That Powers Our Planet

Release date: 2011-07-13 $9.99
Comments

1. The Sun's Heartbeat - An excellent read. The book was witty and very informative. It is the first thing I have read that actually gave scientific proof of how human living has changed the climate. The explanations give insight into nature and allow a person to impress others with the scientific explanations given here. I eagerly await Bob's next book, whatever it may be.
2011-10-20
10. Coral Whisperers - Irus Braverman. Scientists on the Brink

Release date: 2018-10-30 $18.99
11. The Discovery of Global Warming - Spencer R. Weart. Revised and Expanded Edition

Release date: 2008-10-31 $22.99
12. The Death and Life of the Great Lakes - Dan Egan

Release date: 2017-03-07 $13.99
Comments

1. The death and life of the great lakes - Until the age of ten I split my summers between our farm that the St. Joe river ran through and cottages near the shore of Lake Michigan where my Dad worked building highways. I'd catch small mouth bass (one a near record) and rock bass in the river and blue gills in the lakes. Many a day was spent on the Lake Michigan beaches. After many years of living overseas during our marriage, learning scuba diving in the Red Sea and watching great whites and whales in South Africa, my wife and I bought a home a half mile from the Lake Michigan shore. I watched in alarm the vagaries the lake's health but it wasn't until reading this book that I understood it.
2021-05-20
13. Silent Spring - Rachel Carson

Release date: 2022-11-24 $0.99
14. What the Eyes Don't See - Mona Hanna-Attisha. A Story of Crisis, Resistance, and Hope in an American City

Release date: 2018-06-19 $11.99
15. I Want a Better Catastrophe - Andrew Boyd. Navigating the Climate Crisis with Grief, Hope, and Gallows Humor

Release date: 2023-02-14 Genre:Science & Nature $14.99
16. The Donora Death Fog - Andy McPhee. Clean Air and the Tragedy of a Pennsylvania Mill Town

Release date: 2023-03-28 Genre:Science & Nature $14.99
17. Under a White Sky - Elizabeth Kolbert. The Nature of the Future

Release date: 2021-02-09 $13.99
18. Dragons of Eden - Carl Sagan. Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence

Release date: 1977-04-12 $8.99
19. Water - Steven Solomon. The Epic Struggle for Wealth, Power, and Civilization

Release date: 2010-01-05 $14.99
20. The Collapse of Western Civilization - Naomi Oreskes & Erik Conway. A View from the Future

Release date: 2014-07-01 Genre:Science & Nature $8.99
Comments

1. Short and insightful - This short story essentially asks why we are not doing enough to solve the climate crisis despite knowing it is coming. It also questions some essentially arbitrary statistics dogmas about significance levels, ie why we put so much weight on % significance levels, and the idea that success is based on GDP. The fallacy that all regulation or government control is intrinsically bad and that the free market is the solution are exposed as logical fallacies. It is salutory to realize that as far back in , science was concerned about the west Antarctic ice shelf disintegrating.
2019-05-30

2. Fascinating and frightening - Actually more of a Syfy thesis rather than a book but far from a quick read. If you buy this in electronic format and I recommend that you do, you’ll find yourself following links to the factual information that supports the authors views from the future. Before reading this I would have told you I was a Climate Change Agnostic somewhere between the extremes of Climate Change Deniers and Climate Change Alarmist. I am now a believer and keenly concerned for a future that, at my age, I am unlikely to see. No matter where you think you stand on the issue of Climate Change, I’d highly recommend this book before you engage in even one more conversation on the topic.
2017-12-09
21. All We Can Save - Ayana Elizabeth Johnson & Katharine K. Wilkinson. Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis

Release date: 2020-09-22 Genre:Science & Nature $14.99
Comments

1. Worth your time - I heard about this book from Dr. Johnson’s podcast, “How to Save a Planet”. It’s heavy, and heartbreaking, and hopeful. It made me feel both anxious and inspired. There are a lot of good resources for getting involved in the climate movement; this book and Dr. Johnson’s podcast, as well as Dr. Wilkinson’s (A Matter of Degrees” are great places to start.
2020-12-29
22. The Future of Life - Edward O. Wilson

Release date: 2002-01-08 $6.99
23. The Wizard and the Prophet - Charles C. Mann. Two Remarkable Scientists and Their Dueling Visions to Shape Tomorrow's World

Release date: 2018-01-23 $9.99
24. The Human Age: The World Shaped By Us - Diane Ackerman

Release date: 2014-09-10 $11.99
25. World on the Edge: How to Prevent Environmental and Economic Collapse - Lester R. Brown

Release date: 2011-01-06 $9.99
Comments

1. Informative & optimistic - A very good introduction to the looming environmental & economic disaster posed by anthropogenic global climate change. Highly recommended for those who (a) as of yet (like some reviewers) still don't know the difference between _weather_ & _climate_ and (b) think that there are no practical solutions.
2011-01-23
26. The Weather of the Future - Heidi Cullen. Heat Waves, Extreme Storms, and Other Scenes from a Climate-Changed Planet

Release date: 2010-08-24 Genre:Science & Nature $11.99
Comments

1. Great book - This is a book which makes you really think and act. It makes you understand the challenges of global warming and it made me really mad thinking about all of the people in congress that call this is myth. America must act now on this challenge along with the rest of the world, and Cullen displays that. It is beautifully written and I recommend this book to anyone who wants a good book and a book that really makes you think.
2011-09-19
27. Global Weirdness - Climate Central. Severe Storms, Deadly Heat Waves, Relentless Drought, Rising Seas and the Weather of the Future

Release date: 2012-07-24 $13.99
28. Cool It - Bjørn Lomborg

Release date: 2007-09-04 $12.99
29. Saving Us - Katharine Hayhoe. A Climate Scientist's Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World

Release date: 2021-09-21 Genre:Science & Nature $13.99
30. Count Down - Shanna H. Swan. How Our Modern World Is Threatening Sperm Counts, Altering Male and Female Reproductive Development, and Imperiling the Future of the Human Race

Release date: 2021-02-23 $13.99
Comments

1. Intl Tribunal Court in Hague is the only hope for notorious perpetrators of crimes against humanity - Had Biden, Obama, Al Gore and other pals politicians read this urgent warning??! How long will it take for Michele Obama to think of leading THE GLOBAL COUNTDOWN DETOX-COMPLIANCE AGENCY? Why is this extinction pandemic not prioritized over everything? This is nothing, but environmental insanity... THE ROOT CAUSE: Our societal complicity to chemical hazards is due to emotional self-repression that must be addressed with counterpoint of sensory reawakening through music and the arts, sponsored by WHO and UN. to stop this Goliath
2021-09-13
31. The Ecology of Commerce Revised Edition - Paul Hawken. A Declaration of Sustainability

Release date: 2013-03-05 $14.99
32. The Creation: An Appeal to Save Life on Earth - Edward O. Wilson

Release date: 2010-11-29 $10.99
33. Learning to Die in the Anthropocene - Roy Scranton. Reflections on the End of a Civilization

Release date: 2015-09-07 Genre:Science & Nature $13.99
34. The Next Great Migration - Sonia Shah. The Beauty and Terror of Life on the Move

Release date: 2020-06-02 $13.99
35. The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars - Michael Mann. Dispatches from the Front Lines

Release date: 2012-03-06 Genre:Science & Nature $18.99
36. Deep Future - Curt Stager. The Next 100,000 Years of Life on Earth

Release date: 2011-03-15 $11.99
37. Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth-Century World (The Global Century Series) - J. R. McNeill

Release date: 2001-04-17 $15.99
38. Garbage Land - Elizabeth Royte. On the Secret Trail of Trash

Release date: 2007-10-15 $1.99
39. The Conundrum - David Owen

Release date: 2012-02-07 $7.99
Comments

1. Transformational! - This is one of the most transformational books I've ever encountered. It seems an easy endeavor these days to pander to peoples proclivities in order to sell volumes and generate movie scripts. It is another thing indeed to challenge the very foundation of the effects of our personal choices on the world at large, which David Owen does in abundance with 'Conundrum'. I don't know if this was ever a best seller, but I definitely believe it should be read by every man, woman and child able to do so.
2017-09-10

2. The Solution? - The author correctly and eloquently describes the conundrum, but gives up completely at the point of looking around for the solution. Instead, he lists a few dozen already-discredited ideas which he himself (in the rest of his book) explains at great length, won't work. The obvious point that humans will need to learn to adapt to the high-carbon, perhaps hot-Earth that is an inevitable outgrowth of the conundrum, is totally unexplored. Our technology should (and will) shift from conservation and decarbonization to mitigation, by necessity, once the truly intractable depth of the very real conundrum reaches the mass consciousness.
2012-02-19
40. This Borrowed Earth - Robert Emmet Hernan. Lessons from the Fifteen Worst Environmental Disasters around the World

Release date: 2010-02-02 $11.99
41. Harmony - Charles, Prince of Wales. A New Way of Looking at Our World

Release date: 2010-11-02 $14.99
42. Full Planet, Empty Plates: The New Geopolitics of Food Scarcity - Lester R. Brown

Release date: 2012-10-01 $9.99
43. How Bad Are Bananas? - Mike Berners-Lee. The Carbon Footprint of Everything

Release date: 2011-04-01 $9.99
44. Darwin Comes to Town - Menno Schilthuizen. How the Urban Jungle Drives Evolution

Release date: 2018-04-03 $12.99
45. Dark Winter - John L. Casey. How the Sun Is Causing a 30-Year Cold Spell

Release date: 2014-08-19 Genre:Science & Nature $24.99
46. Ecology of Fear - Mike Davis. Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster

Release date: 2014-01-14 $11.99
47. Hothouse Earth - Bill McGuire. An Inhabitant’s Guide

Release date: 2022-07-28 Genre:Science & Nature $14.99
48. Climate Change - Joseph Romm. What Everyone Needs to Know®

Release date: 2018-04-02 Genre:Science & Nature $15.99
49. A World Without Ice - Henry Pollack, Ph.D.

Release date: 2009-10-15 $4.99
50. Toxin Toxout - Bruce Lourie & Rick Smith. Getting Harmful Chemicals Out of Our Bodies and Our World

Release date: 2014-05-06 $11.99