The year 2025 might be seen as one of backsliding when it comes to tackling the environmental crises that face our planet.

From “Life Between Buildings” to “Human Transit,” Island Press has played a critical role in building the catalogue of ...

From rivers and floods to forests and fossil fuels, these books challenge human exceptionalism and trace how inequality, empire and modernity have reshaped the Earth – and our relationship with it ...

The 2024 books that made this year’s list at Mongabay center primarily on humanity’s place in nature, both as a way to understand environmental problems and how to deal with them. The authors explore ...