Deep Water: The World in the Ocean by James Bradley
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Category: Environment & Sustainability
Through history, science, nature writing, and environmentalism, Deep Water invites you to explore the deepest recesses of our natural world. 'Teeming with mysteries, wonders and heartbreaking facts, this beautiful, lucid hymn to the sea is a reminder of what we still have, what we stand to lose, and why ...Show more
The Forest Wars: The ugly truth about what's happening in our tall forests by David Lindenmayer
32.99 AUD
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Category: Environment & Sustainability
Lifts the lid on destruction of native forests by government corporations and logging industry that is making bushfires worse, killing wildlife and costing taxpayers millions, for the sake of woodchips for export. Since colonisation, Australia has been frantically logging our native forests as if our l ...Show more
The Secret Network of Nature: The Delicate Balance of All Living Things by Peter Wohlleben
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Category: Environment & Sustainability
From the bestselling author of The Hidden Life of Trees Did you know that trees can influence the rotation of the earth? Or that wolves can alter the course of a river? Or that earthworms control wild boar populations? The natural world is a web of intricate connections, many of which go unnoticed by hu ...Show more
The Rare Metals War The dark side of clean energy and digital technologies by Guillaume Pitron
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Category: Environment & Sustainability
The resources race is on. Powering our digital lives and green technologies are some of the Earth's most precious metals - but they are running out. And what will happen when they do? The green-tech revolution has been lauded as the silver bullet to a new world. One that is at last free of oil, pollutio ...Show more
What the Trees See: A wander through millennia of natural history in Australia by Dave Witty
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Category: Environment & Sustainability
The trees around us - some we may walk past every day - tell a story. The mallee box by the twelfth hole of North Adelaide Golf Course evokes a time when Adelaide was clothed in mallee scrub and desert senna. Brisbane' s remnant blue gum, growing by the botanic gardens, indicates a time when the city wa ...Show more
Gondwana Burning by Anastasia Guise
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Category: Environment & Sustainability
A collection of articles on Australian ecology. The title essay "Gondwana Burning" focuses on the burning of much of the Gondwana rainforests in the 2019-2020 bushfires.
The Darkness Manifesto: How Light Pollution Threatens the Ancient Rhythms of Life by Johan Eklöf; Elizabeth DeNoma (Translator)
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Category: Environment & Sustainability
The Darkness Manifesto urges us to cherish darkness for the sake of the environment, our own wellbeing, and all life on earth. Entire ecosystems rely on natural darkness to flourish, from bats and keen-eyed owls capering across the starry sky to the bioluminescent creatures of the deep. But constant ill ...Show more
The Hidden Life of Trees - What They Feel, How They Communicate - Discoveries from a Secret World by Peter Wohlleben
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Category: Environment & Sustainability | Reading Level: good
Are trees social beings? In this international bestseller, forester and author Peter Wohlleben convincingly makes the case that, yes, the forest is a social network. He draws on groundbreaking scientific discoveries to describe how trees are like human families: tree parents live together with their chi ...Show more
The Quickening: Creation and Community at the Ends of the Earth by Elizabeth Rush
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Category: Environment & Sustainability | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
An August 2023 Indie Next Pick, selected by booksellersA Vogue Most Anticipated Book of 2023A WBUR Summer Reading RecommendationA Next Big Idea Club's August 2023 Must-Read BookAn astonishing, vital book about Antarctica, climate change, and motherhood from the author of Rising, finalist for the Pulitze ...Show more
A Clear Flowing Yarra by Harry Saddler
29.99 AUD
Category: Environment & Sustainability
A passionate, evocative love letter to an iconic waterway, and an opportunity to appreciate the natural beauty right on our doorsteps. They say you can't step in the same river twice, and it's true that the Yarra has been hugely changed - but this book is a glorious and timely reminder that things can ...Show more
Banzeiro Òkòtó by Eliane Brum
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Category: Environment & Sustainability
A confrontation with the destruction of the Amazon by a writer who moved her life into the heart of the forest. Eliane Brum reveals the direct links between structural inequities rooted in gender, race, class, and even species, and the suffering that capitalism and climate breakdown wreak on those who a ...Show more
H is for Hope: Climate Change from A to Z by Elizabeth Kolbert
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Category: Environment & Sustainability
Climate change resists narrative and yet we must see clearly what's happening in our world. Millions of lives are at stake, and upwards of a million species. We must act. In H Is for Hope, Elizabeth Kolbert investigates the history, and future, of climate change from A, for Svante Arrhenius, who created ...Show more