Pollution

Politicians, economists, and Wall Street would have us believe that limitless economic expansion is the Holy Grail....

In the 2012 edition of its flagship report, Worldwatch celebrates the twentieth anniversary of the 1992 Earth Summit with a far-reaching analysis of progress toward building sustainable economies....

The advice in Cooler Smarter can help save you money and live healthier. But its central purpose is to empower you, through low-carbon living, to confront one of society's greatest threats....

The world's preeminent environmental organization began with a layer of soot on the windowsill of a Greenwich Village apartment....

Solar energy has become the cheapest and fastest-growing power source on earth. What's more, its potential is nearly limitless. But in Taming the Sun, energy expert Varun Sivaram warns that the world is not yet equipped to harness erratic sunshine to meet most of its energy needs....

Jason Zhou survives in a divided society where the elite use their wealth to buy longer lives. The rich wear special suits, protecting them from the pollution and viruses that plague the city....

Packed with more than 3,800 carefully selected plant, animal, and insect species, this mega-terrarium is one of the world's most biodiverse, lush, and artificial wildernesses....

In 1996, the first independent national report on the state of Australia’s environment found that we faced serious problems. Ian Lowe argues that the essential first steps in addressing these threats are stabilizing the global climate and protecting our local biota....

In humanity’s more than 100,000 year history, we have evolved from vulnerable creatures clawing sustenance from Earth to a sophisticated global society manipulating every inch of it....

Our current environmental crises - most notably, climate change - call on us to upgrade to a new way of life that will sustain us and our world far into the future....

Iain Murray's exposé reveals how environmental blowhards actually do more to waste energy, endanger species, and kill people than those they finger....

In today's increasingly interconnected world, it is imperative that we grasp the urgency of addressing the future of our planet. The consequences of climate change and environmental degradation are becoming more evident with each passing day....

An entertaining and enlightening exploration of why waste matters, this cultural history explores an often ignored subject matter and makes a compelling argument for a deeper understanding of human and animal waste....

Environmentally, our planet lacks the laws to keep it safe, and those laws we do have are feebly enforced. Every year is the hottest in human history....

Peter Brandt, a litigator at the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS), has been at the forefront of some of the toughest cases of animal abuse in the last 10 years - including supervising a team of lawyers working to protect the interests of farm animals....

Down to the Wire is a sober and eloquent assessment of climate destabilization and an urgent call to action....

In Food Forensics, you’ll discover little-known truths about other toxic food ingredients such as polysorbate 80, MSG, sodium nitrite, pesticides, and weed killers such as glyphosate. Adams reveals stunning, never-before-reported details of heavy metals....

For more than a century, the interplay between private, investor-owned electric utilities and government regulators has shaped the electric power industry in the United States....

In Fueling Freedom, energy experts Stephen Moore and Kathleen Hartnett White make an unapologetic case for fossil fuels....

A veritable tsunami of studies and assessment reports outlines a stark picture of humanity's detrimental impacts on our planet's life and environmental health. Climate change is at the heart of many of these impacts....