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In Search of the Canary Tree: The Story of a Scientist, a Cypress, and a Changing World

10 best books like In Search of the Canary Tree: The Story of a Scientist, a Cypress, and a Changing World (Lauren E. Oakes): Losing Earth: A Recent History, The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming, Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter, Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?, Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore, The World in a Grain: The Story of Sand and How It Transformed Civilization, Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country, The Secret Wisdom of Nature: Trees, Animals, and the Extraordinary Balance of All Living Things ― Stories from Science and Observation, An Elegant Defense: The Extraordinary New Science of the Immune System: A Tale in Four Lives, Influenza: The Hundred-Year Hunt to Cure the Deadliest Disease in History

Losing Earth: A Recent History
AuthorNathaniel Rich
ISBN0374191336
By 1979, we knew nearly everything we understand today about climate change--including how to stop it. Over the next decade, a handful of scientists, politicians, and strategists, led by two unlikely heroes, risked their careers in a desperate, escalating campaign to convince the world to act before...
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
AuthorDavid Wallace-Wells
ISBN0525576703
It is worse, much worse, than you think. If your anxiety about global warming is dominated by fears of sea-level rise, you are barely scratching the surface of what terrors are possible. In California, wildfires now rage year-round, destroying thousands of homes. Across the US, "500-year" storms...
Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter
AuthorBen Goldfarb
Winner of the 2019 PEN/EO Wilson Award for Literary Science Writing

In Eager, environmental journalist Ben Goldfarb reveals that our modern idea of what a healthy landscape looks like and how it functions is wrong, distorted by the fur trade that once trapped out millions of beavers from North...
Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?
AuthorBill McKibben
ISBN1250178266
Thirty years ago Bill McKibben offered one of the earliest warnings about climate change. Now he broadens the warning: the entire human game, he suggests, has begun to play itself out.

Bill McKibben’s groundbreaking book The End of Nature -- issued in dozens of languages and long regarded...
Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore
AuthorElizabeth Rush
ISBN1571313672
WINNER OF THE NATIONAL OUTDOOR BOOK AWARD
A CHICAGO TRIBUNE TOP TEN BOOK OF 2018
A GUARDIAN, NPR's SCIENCE FRIDAY, PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, AND LIBRARY JOURNAL BEST BOOK OF 2018

Hailed as "deeply felt" (New York Times), "a revelation" (Pacific Standard), and "the book on climate change...
The World in a Grain: The Story of Sand and How It Transformed Civilization
AuthorVince Beiser
ISBN0399576428
The gripping story of the most important overlooked commodity in the world--sand--and the crucial role it plays in our lives.

After water and air, sand is the natural resource that we consume more than any other--even more than oil. Every concrete building and paved road on Earth, every computer...
Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country
AuthorPam Houston
On her 120-acre homestead high in the Colorado Rockies, beloved writer Pam Houston learns what it means to care for a piece of land and the creatures on it. Houston’s ranch becomes her sanctuary, a place where she discovers how the natural world has mothered and healed her after a childhood of parental...
The Secret Wisdom of Nature: Trees, Animals, and the Extraordinary Balance of All Living Things ― Stories from Science and Observation
AuthorPeter Wohlleben
ISBN1771643889
The final book in The Mysteries of Nature trilogy by the New York Times bestselling author of The Hidden Life of Trees, Peter Wohlleben.

Nature is full of surprises: deciduous trees affect the rotation of the Earth, cranes sabotage the production of Iberian ham, and coniferous forests can...
An Elegant Defense: The Extraordinary New Science of the Immune System: A Tale in Four Lives
AuthorMatt Richtel
A magnificently reported and soulfully crafted exploration of the human immune system–the key to health and wellness, life and death. An epic, first-of-its-kind book, entwining leading-edge scientific discovery with the intimate stories of four individual lives, by the Pulitzer Prize–winning...
Influenza: The Hundred-Year Hunt to Cure the Deadliest Disease in History
AuthorJeremy Brown
ISBN1501181246
On the 100th anniversary of the devastating pandemic of 1918, Jeremy Brown, a veteran ER doctor, explores the troubling, terrifying, and complex history of the flu virus, from the origins of the Great Flu that killed millions, to vexing questions such as: are we prepared for the next epidemic, should...
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