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Book Review: The Devil’s Element: A Hell of a Mess We’ve Gotten Ourselves Into

December 28, 2023March 5, 2023 by John Yunker

While reading The Devil’s Element: Phosphorous and a World Out of Balance by Dan Egan I happened to come across this article in The New York Times about a growing …

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Categories Anthropocene, Book Reviews, Climate Change, Conservation, Ecology, Nonfiction, Oceans, Pollution, W. W. Norton & Company

Book Review: From the Caves by Thea Prieto

January 26, 2023 by Lillie Gardner
Book cover of From the Caves featuring a yellow and orange illustration of fire against a black background

The end of the world is not for the faint of heart, and neither is Thea Prieto’s bold and beautiful novella about four humans pushed to the limits of climate …

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Categories Book Reviews, Climate Change, Fiction, Pollution

Interview with Groundglass author Kathryn Savage

July 25, 2022 by Lillie Gardner
black and white image of author Kathryn Savage

Kathryn Savage is a writer based in Minneapolis whose work has appeared in American Short Fiction, Ecotone Magazine, the Virginia Quarterly Review, BOMB, and the anthology Rewilding: Poems for the Environment. She recently chatted …

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Categories Pollution, Q&A

Book Review: Groundglass by Kathryn Savage

June 21, 2022 by Lillie Gardner
book cover for Kathryn Savage's Groundglass, the words around broken fragments

Kathryn Savage’s gorgeous lyric essay Groundglass is a poetic reckoning with environmental pollution and its unavoidable connection to human bodies. In the book, available August 2nd from Coffee House Press, Savage blends tough …

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Categories Book Reviews, Nonfiction, Pollution

Book Review: Environment by Rolf Halden

February 18, 2022 by Lillie Gardner

If you were expecting a book called “Environment” to include an inspiring exploration of how trees communicate, poetic scenes of dolphins swimming gracefully through a blue ocean or an examination …

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Categories Bloomsbury, Book Reviews, Climate Change, Ecology, History, Nonfiction, Oceans, Pollution, Sustainability

Book Review: Junk Raft by Marcus Eriksen

May 24, 2018 by Midge Raymond

Junk Raft: An Ocean Voyage and a Rising Tide of Activism to Fight Plastic Pollution tells the terrifying and important story of plastics in our oceans, framed by Marcus Eriksen’s …

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Categories Birds, Book Reviews, Nonfiction, Oceans, Oil, Pollution

Book Review: Comfortably Unaware: What We Choose to Eat Is Killing Us and Our Planet by Richard Oppenlander

February 11, 2014 by Midge Raymond

Richard Oppenlander’s Comfortably Unaware is a book everyone on the planet should read. Unfortunately, the book’s biggest drawback is that it may not feel accessible to those who need to …

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Categories Book Reviews, Climate Change, Nonfiction, Oceans, Pollution, Veganism

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