Nature, Animals, Ecology, Water & Spirit

In a series of letters to his granddaughter, Sophie, the world's leading climatologist shows how it is still possible to ensure that young people inherit a clean world.

He watched mountains from a small room perched 70 feet above the Gila Wilderness. He learned these things. Gigantic skies. The deep silence. The trigonometry of fire watching. Bears making strange night noises. Eagles, vultures, hummingbirds. Infinite stars flowering in the garden of the night sky. Moon mysteries. Lightening. Thunder.

A gorgeously illustrated, entertaining, and educational guide to the wonderful whales, dolphins, and porpoises of the world.

There's something about fish that leaves a cold, slimy whiff in many people's minds. Either that, or fish are simply "food"; catching fish to eat is so deeply ingrained that we fish for fish, but we don't pigeon a pigeon or deer a deer.

When most of us think about climate change, we imagine the ice caps melting and sea levels risingbut the biggest threat will actually come from catastrophic rains, known as monsoons.