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Silent Spring (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as environmental-science)
avg rating 4.06 — 57,063 ratings — published 1962
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as environmental-science)
avg rating 4.15 — 81,842 ratings — published 2014
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as environmental-science)
avg rating 4.50 — 188,190 ratings — published 2013
A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as environmental-science)
avg rating 4.31 — 37,649 ratings — published 1949
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as environmental-science)
avg rating 4.06 — 92,783 ratings — published 2015
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as environmental-science)
avg rating 3.99 — 30,496 ratings — published 2019
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as environmental-science)
avg rating 4.16 — 28,131 ratings — published 2014
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as environmental-science)
avg rating 4.31 — 55,142 ratings — published 2020
The Death and Life of the Great Lakes (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as environmental-science)
avg rating 4.34 — 11,939 ratings — published 2017
Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as environmental-science)
avg rating 4.09 — 13,555 ratings — published 2021
Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as environmental-science)
avg rating 4.20 — 18,075 ratings — published 2021
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as environmental-science)
avg rating 4.33 — 31,073 ratings — published 2015
Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as environmental-science)
avg rating 4.37 — 22,768 ratings — published 2003
Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as environmental-science)
avg rating 4.05 — 4,927 ratings — published 2006
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as environmental-science)
avg rating 4.19 — 212,194 ratings — published 2006
Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as environmental-science)
avg rating 4.09 — 12,602 ratings — published 2002
The World Without Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as environmental-science)
avg rating 3.81 — 43,884 ratings — published 2007
How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as environmental-science)
avg rating 4.11 — 51,762 ratings — published 2021
All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as environmental-science)
avg rating 4.41 — 6,676 ratings — published 2020
The Overstory (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as environmental-science)
avg rating 4.11 — 208,179 ratings — published 2018
The End of Nature (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as environmental-science)
avg rating 3.94 — 3,162 ratings — published 1989
The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as environmental-science)
avg rating 4.06 — 60,450 ratings — published 2001
The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinction (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as environmental-science)
avg rating 4.29 — 8,762 ratings — published 1996
Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as environmental-science)
avg rating 4.28 — 12,222 ratings — published 1986
The Intersectional Environmentalist: How to Dismantle Systems of Oppression to Protect People + Planet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as environmental-science)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,267 ratings — published 2022
No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as environmental-science)
avg rating 3.84 — 28,277 ratings — published 2019
Regeneration: Ending the Climate Crisis in One Generation (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as environmental-science)
avg rating 4.35 — 742 ratings — published
Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as environmental-science)
avg rating 3.84 — 31,866 ratings — published 2021
Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as environmental-science)
avg rating 4.39 — 4,421 ratings — published 2017
The Ends of the World (ebook)
by (shelved 5 times as environmental-science)
avg rating 4.30 — 6,377 ratings — published 2017
Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as environmental-science)
avg rating 3.81 — 2,399 ratings — published 1979
The Sea Around Us (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as environmental-science)
avg rating 4.16 — 5,238 ratings — published 1951
Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as environmental-science)
avg rating 4.06 — 2,087 ratings — published 2007
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as environmental-science)
avg rating 4.05 — 114,310 ratings — published 2007
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as environmental-science)
avg rating 4.04 — 471,464 ratings — published 1997
Encounters with the Archdruid (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as environmental-science)
avg rating 4.23 — 6,820 ratings — published 1971
Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as environmental-science)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,867 ratings — published 1972
The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as environmental-science)
avg rating 4.26 — 74,299 ratings — published 2024
Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as environmental-science)
avg rating 4.19 — 6,252 ratings — published 2021
The Devil's Element: Phosphorus and a World Out of Balance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as environmental-science)
avg rating 4.22 — 2,529 ratings — published 2023
The Diversity of Life (Questions of Science)
by (shelved 4 times as environmental-science)
avg rating 4.22 — 6,281 ratings — published 1992
The Treeline: The Last Forest and the Future of Life on Earth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as environmental-science)
avg rating 4.23 — 1,939 ratings — published 2022
Regenesis: Feeding the World Without Devouring the Planet (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as environmental-science)
avg rating 4.39 — 3,728 ratings — published 2022
The Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes Us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as environmental-science)
avg rating 3.96 — 15,286 ratings — published 2017
The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as environmental-science)
avg rating 4.33 — 6,942 ratings — published 1977
Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as environmental-science)
avg rating 4.10 — 7,455 ratings — published 2022
Beloved Beasts: Fighting for Life in an Age of Extinction (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as environmental-science)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,593 ratings — published 2021
A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as environmental-science)
avg rating 4.50 — 36,075 ratings — published 2020
The Story of More: How We Got to Climate Change and Where to Go from Here (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as environmental-science)
avg rating 4.13 — 7,495 ratings — published 2020
The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as environmental-science)
avg rating 4.19 — 5,107 ratings — published 2017
“A thing is right when it tends to promote the integrity, beauty and stability of the biotic community," famed Wisconsin naturalist Aldo Leopold wrote in 1949, which happened to be teh peak of the lamprey invasion. " It is wrong when it tends otherwise.”
― The Death and Life of the Great Lakes
― The Death and Life of the Great Lakes