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, …
When was the last time you sat for a length of time in a quiet space outdoors, looking at, listening to, smelling, and communing with the vast biodiversity of the …
It may be summer vacation for some but not here at EcoLit Books! Here are the latest selection of books to come across our desks… Undying Fire: A Fire History …
As a nursling of the rural Irish landscape, I was taken with the title of Merritt R. Turetsky’s book Bogland: The Secret World That Defies Death and Protects Life as …
I’m pleased the share the latest batch of fiction and nonfiction books with environmental themes… Footprint: Four Itineraries By Radhika Subramaniam The book takes the footprint for a walk—to the …
There is a maxim that “nothing happens in publishing in the summer.” Apparently, that maxim doesn’t apply to environmental literature — as we’ve seen a wide range of impressive books …
Terra Firma Books, Trinity University Press, 2025 This fine collection of essays by Simmons Buntin, Satellite: Essays of Fatherhood and Home, Near and Far, leads with lizards. “They are tidy, …
I was once told that a weed is simply a plant out of place. Indeed, one person’s weed may be another person’s precious resource. In Love Them to Death: Turning …
The Universe in Verse: 15 Portals to Wonder Through Science and Poetry By Maria Popova Illustrations by Ofra Amit Storey Publishing, 2024 If books are medicine, The Universe in Verse …
In Charlotte McConaghy’s lovely new novel, Wild Dark Shore, Dominic Salt and his family—eighteen-year-old Raff, seventeen-year-old Fen, and nine-year-old Orly—moved to Shearwater Island eight years earlier, when Dominic “needed a …
Nearly 30 years ago, the first genetically modified (GM) seed produced a tomato known as the Flavr Savr. The tomato was engineered for longer shelf life which was where it …