Ecology

Ecology (from Greek: οἶκος, "house"; -λογία, "study of"[A]) is the scientific study of interactions among organisms and their environment, such as the interactions organisms have with each other and with their abiotic environment.

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The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World
Is a River Alive?
An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times
The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth
Forest Euphoria: The Abounding Queerness of Nature
Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World
The Backyard Bird Chronicles
How to Blow Up a Pipeline
Ocean: Earth’s Last Wilderness
The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year
Firestorm - The Great Los Angeles Fires and America's New Age of Disaster
How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need
A Murder of Crows (Nell Ward, #1)
Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Silent Spring
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses
The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World
The Overstory
Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate
The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins
The World Without Us
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World
Technological Slavery by Theodore John KaczynskiAnti-Tech Revolution by Theodore John KaczynskiIndustrial Society and Its Future by Theodore John KaczynskiSapiens by Yuval Noah HarariThe Naked Ape by Desmond Morris
The Human Animal
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Women in Science
366 books — 112 voters
The Rush for Black Diamonds, Volume One by George Walters-SleyonThe Rush for Black Diamonds, Volume Two by George Walters-SleyonThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodWe Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieBad Feminist by Roxane Gay
Let's Dismantle the Patriarchy
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Edward Humes
Americans make more trash than anyone else on the planet, throwing away about 7.1 pounds per person per day, 365 days a year. Across a lifetime that rate means, on average, we are each on track to generate 102 tons of trash. Each of our bodies may occupy only one cemetery plot when we’re done with this world, but a single person’s 102-ton trash legacy will require the equivalent of 1,100 graves. Much of that refuse will outlast any grave marker, pharaoh’s pyramid or modern skyscraper: One of the ...more
Edward Humes, Garbology: Our Dirty Love Affair with Trash

James E. Lovelock
We are the intelligent elite among animal life on earth and whatever our mistakes, [Earth] needs us. This may seem an odd statement after all that I have said about the way 20th century humans became almost a planetary disease organism. But it has taken [Earth] 2.5 billion years to evolve an animal that can think and communicate its thoughts. If we become extinct she has little chance of evolving another.
James Lovelock, The Vanishing Face of Gaia: A Final Warning

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