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Over the last half a billion years, there have been five mass extinctions, when the diversity of life on Earth suddenly and dramatically contracted.

"Hope Jahren is the voice that science has been waiting for." 'Nature "A superb account of the deadly struggle between humanity and what may prove the only life-bearing planet w

For the last fifty years, the trees of the boreal forest have been moving north.

"The Uninhabitable Earth hits you like a comet, with an overflow of insanely lyrical prose about our pending Armageddon."--Andrew Solomon, author of The Noonday DemonIt is worse, much wor

Je le confesse: je ne t'ai pas tout dit! J'ai longtemps pensé que ma vie était à l'image d'un casse-tête: difficile en chien à assembler.

"An exceptionally good book . . . worthy to stand on the nature shelf of anyone interested in mountainous America." - The New York Times.

A classic work of nature and humanity, by renowned writer Peter Matthiessen (1927–2014), author of the National Book Award–winning The Snow Leopard and the novel In Paradise.

A unique look at the cultural, environmental, historical, literary, metaphorical, and political role of the wolf.

African Silences is a powerful and sobering account of the cataclysmic depredation of the African landscape and its wildlife.

A fascinating journey with the sea creature that has captured human imagination for thousands of years, Poseidon's Steed follows the seahorse through secluded waters across the globe, tracing

Winner of the 2020 Basil Stuart Stubbs Prize—winner of the 2019 Lieutenant Governor's Medal for Historical Writing.

In 1983, at nineteen, Greg Nolan was hired (reluctantly) by his older sister's boyfriend—a treeplanting contractor based in Northern British Columbia.

Respected Cowichan Tribe Elder and botanical expert Luschiim, Arvid Charlie, began his education in early childhood, learning from his great grandparents and others of their generation.

Listening to the Bees is a collaborative exploration by two writers to illuminate the most profound human questions: Who are we? Who do we want to be in the world?

A compact, full-colour field guide to the growing number of invasive plant species spreading across coastal BC and the Pacific Northwest—highlighting their hazards and uses.