Nature et écologie

How do trees live? Do they feel pain or have awareness of their surroundings? Research is now suggesting trees are capable of much more than we have ever known....

When we think of fungi, we likely think of mushrooms. But mushrooms are only fruiting bodies, analogous to apples on a tree. Most fungi live out of sight, yet make up a massively diverse kingdom of organisms that supports and sustains nearly all living systems....

A groundbreaking study that radically alters our understanding of the Americas before the arrival of the Europeans in 1492....

The star of the Discovery Channel's River Monsters and author of the best-selling River Monsters shares a meditation on fishing - and life....

Both a captivating narrative and a book of environmental and historical significance, American Buffalo tells us as much about ourselves as Americans as it does about the creature who perhaps best of all embodies the American ethos....

The author of Cod and The Basque History of the World takes an extraordinary look at an ordinary substance — salt, the only rock humans eat — and how it has shaped civilization from the very beginning....

A paradigm-shifting book in the vein of Sapiens that brings a crucial Indigenous perspective to historical and cultural issues of history, education, money, power, and sustainability - and offers a new template for living....

Long before smartphones and satellite apps, people trusted the sky to tell them what tomorrow would bring. Reading the Sky is your practical, easy-to-follow guide to forecasting the weather using nature’s timeless signs—cloud shapes, wind shifts, colors at dawn and dusk, and even the stars above.

To live in a pristine land unchanged by man... to roam a wilderness through which few other humans have passed....

Greta Thunberg’s speeches shook the world. With The Climate Book, she has created an essential tool for everyone who wants to help save it....