The environment

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Silent Spring, Hardcover/Rachel Carson
First published by Houghton Mifflin in 1962, Silent Spring alerted a large audience to the environmental and human dangers of indiscriminate use of pesticides, spurring revolutionary changes in the laws…Catre Magazin
Longleaf, Far as the Eye Can See: A New Vision of North America’s Richest Forest, Hardcover/Bill Finch
Longleaf forests once covered 92 million acres from Texas to Maryland to Florida. These grand old-growth pines were the "alpha tree" of the largest forest ecosystem in North America and…Catre Magazin
The Fourth Phase of Water: Beyond Solid, Liquid, and Vapor, Paperback/Gerald H. Pollack
Professor Pollack takes us on a fantastic voyage through water, showing us a hidden universe teeming with physical activity-- providing simple explanations for common everyday phenomena, which you have inevitably…Catre Magazin
The View from Lazy Point: A Natural Year in an Unnatural World, Paperback/Carl Safina
Hailed MacArthur Fellow Carl Safina takes us on a tour of the natural world in the course of a year spent divided between his home on the shore of eastern…Catre Magazin
The Future of Nature: Writing on a Human Ecology from Orion Magazine, Paperback/Barry Lopez
The western mindset is arguably one of the greatest threats to the world’s ecological balance. Corporatism and globalization are two of the obvious villains here, but what part does human…Catre Magazin
The Ghosts of Evolution Nonsensical Fruit, Missing Partners, and Other Ecological Anachronisms, Paperback/Connie Barlow
A new vision is sweeping through ecological science: The dense web of dependencies that makes up an ecosystem has gained an added dimension-the dimension of time. Every field, forest, and…Catre Magazin
Lost in the Driftless: Trout Fishing on the Cultural Divide, Paperback/Timothy O. Traver
The Driftless Area in rural southwestern Wisconsin has some of the most productive spring creeks in the world. Brown trout numbers can reach 5000 catchable fish per mile in creeks…Catre Magazin
Rising Tides: Climate Refugees in the Twenty-First Century, Paperback/John R. Wennersten
Global climate change is undeniable. Over the next few decades, as sea levels rise, storms intensify, and drought and desertification run rampant, hundreds of millions of civilians will abandon their…Catre Magazin
Field Guide to the Sandia Mountains, Paperback/Robert Julyan
Each year over 2 million visitors to New Mexico's Sandia Mountains enjoy more than 100 miles of trails, hiking, climbing, running, biking, skiing, and birding, as well as viewing the…Catre Magazin
Gem Identification Made Easy: A Hands-On Guide to More Confident Buying & Selling (6th Edition), Hardcover/Antoinette Leonard Matlins
Gem Identification Made Easy is the first and only book that explains in non-technical terms how to identify diamonds and colored gems, and how to separate natural gems from imitations,…Catre Magazin
The Everglades: River of Grass, Hardcover/Marjory Stoneman Douglas
Before 1947, when Marjory Stoneman Douglas named The Everglades a "river of grass," most people considered the area worthless. She brought the world's attention to the need to preserve The…Catre Magazin