Water has long been the object of political ambition and conflict. Recent history is full of leaders who tried to harness water to realize national dreams. Yet the people who most need water--farmers,
An investigation into our complicated 7-decade-long relationship with nuclear technology, from the bomb to nuclear accidents to nuclear waste. From Hiroshima to
Environmental journalist Fred Pearce travels the globe to investigate our complicated seven-decade long relationship with nuclear technology, from the bomb to nuclear accidents to nuclear waste.&n
A long-time veteran environmental journalist embarks on a revealing journey to rediscover what conservation in the 21st-century should be about, searching for ways to help nature regenerate during an
In Confessions of an Eco-Sinner, Fred Pearce surveys his home and then sets out to track down the people behind the production and distribution of everything in his daily life, from his socks to his
In this groundbreaking book, veteran science correspondent Fred Pearce travels to more than thirty countries to examine the current state of crucial water sources. Deftly weaving together the complic
The real story behind the leaking of climate change emails at the University of East Anglia.It is the biggest scandal to hit global warming science in years. In November 2009 it emerged that thousands
Demography is destiny. It underlies many of the issues that shake the world, from war and economics to immigration. No wonder, then, that overpopulation fears flared regularly over the last century,
A global journey to find the sources of all the stuff in one man’s life—and its social and environmental footprintWhere does everything in our daily lives come from? The clothes on our ba
Fred Pearce has been writing about climate change for twenty years, and the more he learns, the worse things look. As Pearce began researching this book, numerous scientists sought him out to recount
It was with the Colorado River that engineers first learned to control great rivers. But now the Colorado’s reservoirs are two-thirds empty. Great rivers like the Indus and the Nile, the Rio Gr
