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Book Review: Little Great Island

July 20, 2025July 20, 2025 by JoeAnn Hart

A Novel, by Kate Woodworth Sibylline Press, 2025 Reviewed by JoeAnn Hart Our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest… the trees commingle their …

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Categories Book Reviews, Climate Change, Conservation, Ecology, Fiction, Gardening, Oceans, Organic Farming, Sustainability

Book Review: The Universe in Verse

March 20, 2025March 20, 2025 by JoeAnn Hart

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 …

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Categories Animal Behavior, Animals, Art, Birds, Book Reviews, Earth Architecture, Ecology, Gardening, Hachette Book Group, Insects, Nonfiction, Oceans, Plants, Poetry, Trees

Q&A with Christina Rivera, author of My Oceans

March 8, 2025 by John Yunker

Christina Rivera is an author from Colorado whose girlhood was bordered by coastlines of the Pacific Ocean. Her debut book, MY OCEANS was longlisted for the Graywolf Press Prize, a …

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Categories Author Q&A, Climate Change, Conservation, Oceans, Q&A, What we're reading

Book Review: Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy

March 4, 2025 by Midge Raymond

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 …

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Categories Animals, Anthropocene, Book Reviews, Climate Change, Eco-mystery, Ecology, Fiction, Macmillan, Oceans, Plants

New and forthcoming environmental books (September 2024)

September 1, 2024 by John Yunker

Here are a number of recently published or about-to-be-published books that have come across our desks. Love Story with Birds By Derek Furr “Let us be at a loss for …

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Categories Anthropocene, Climate Change, Conservation, Ecology, Ecomedia, Endangered Species, Oceans, Sustainability, What we're reading

Book Review: How Far the Light Reaches: A Life In Ten Sea Creatures

September 16, 2024July 31, 2024 by Melissa Dennihy

What do we know about life in the ocean, and what can the varied forms of life there teach us about our own lives and selves? These are the questions …

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Categories Animal Behavior, Book Reviews, Ecology, Endangered Species, Essays, Nonfiction, Oceans

Book Review: Wild Chorus: Finding Harmony with Whales, Wolves, and Other Animals

September 16, 2024July 16, 2024 by John Yunker

Guest book review by Gene Helfman. “…a woman’s place…is in the wild.” This remarkable book is a memoir, a unique lesson in natural history, a love poem to the wild, …

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Categories Book Reviews, Mountaineers Books, Nonfiction

Book Review: The Rotting Whale

June 26, 2024 by Midge Raymond

While a good many mystery novels have environmental themes, it’s rare to find a book specifically labeled “eco-mystery”—but Jann Eyrich’s new series is just that.  The Rotting Whale introduces Hugo Sandoval, …

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Categories Book Reviews, Eco-mystery

Q&A with Bill Streever, author of A Sea Full of Turtles

June 18, 2024 by John Yunker

EcoLit contributor Bill Streever has a new book out, A Sea Full of Turtles, and it provides a hopeful antidote to the more dystopian environmental literature in bookstores today. Bill’s …

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Categories Author Q&A, Climate Change, Conservation, Ecology, Endangered Species, Oceans, Pollution, Q&A, Sustainability, What we're reading

Book Review: The Pelican Tide

September 24, 2024June 11, 2024 by Midge Raymond

Sharon J. Wishnow’s debut novel, The Pelican Tide—set on Grand Isle, Louisiana, in 2010, just before the Deepwater Horizon explosion and oil spill—is both an intense environmental disaster story and a …

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Categories Book Reviews, Ecology, Fiction, Oceans, Oil

New and forthcoming environmental books (March 2024)

March 9, 2024 by John Yunker

Here are some of the latest books to land on our desks. Please take a moment to scroll down and check them out! Facing the Climate Emergency: How to Transform …

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Categories Anthropocene, Book Reviews, Climate Change, Conservation, Ecology, History, Nonfiction, Oceans, Plants, Rewilding, Sustainability
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