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
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 provocative exploration of the “new ecology” and why most of what we think we know about alien species is wrong For a long time veteran environmental journalist Fred Pearce thought in stark terms a
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 eighteen years, and the more he learns, the worse things look. Where once scientists were concerned about gradual climate change, now more and mo
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,
“Raises complex and urgent issues.”—Booklist, starred reviewHow Wall Street, Chinese billionaires, oil sheiks, and agribusiness are buying up huge tracts of land in a hungry, crowded world.An unpreced
It is the most extreme, the most complex place on earth - perhaps the universe. But is it a green heaven or green hell? Once, the jungle was impenetrable, alien, a source of unimaginable horror. Toda
