Book Review: Togetherness: Symbiosis and the Hidden Story of Life’s Greatest Collaborations by Rowan Hooper

Cover of Togetherness: Symbiosis and the Hidden Story of Life's Greatest Collaborations by Rowan Hooper

Collaborative relationships between species are widespread in ecosystems across the planet. One I’m most familiar with is between a tree that grows near my home in New Mexico, the piñon, …

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The best environmental books we’ve read in 2024

We published 30 book reviews this year and read many more. And out of all the books we’ve read, here are a handful of our favorites. You’ll find a mix …

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Book Review: Our Kindred Creatures: The birth of the American animal rights movement

Cover of Our Kindred Creatures: How Americans Came to Feel the Way They Do about Animals by Bill Wasik and Monica Murphy

Imagine it is 1866 and you are strolling the streets of New York City. The first thing you might notice are the hundreds upon hundreds of horses pulling people in …

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Book Review: A Most Remarkable Creature

In A Most Remarkable Creature: The Hidden Life and Epic Journey of the World’s Smartest Bird of Prey Jonathan Meiburg has crafted an epic ode to the caracara, a long-overlooked …

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The best environmental books we’ve read in 2019

Looking back on the year, I’m happy to see that a novel that made our best books list in 2018 won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize: The Overstory by Richard Powers …

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