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The Atlas of Disappearing Places: Our Coasts and Oceans in the Climate Crisis
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3.74 avg rating — 73 ratings
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The Year of Sitting Dangerously: My Garden Safari
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3.65 avg rating — 207 ratings
score: 82,
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103 |
What an Owl Knows: the new science of the world’s most enigmatic birds
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4.14 avg rating — 6,593 ratings
score: 81,
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104 |
A Furious Sky: The Five-Hundred-Year History of America's Hurricanes
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Eric Jay Dolin (Goodreads Author)
4.07 avg rating — 1,688 ratings
score: 80,
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104 |
Planet Palm: How Palm Oil Ended Up in Everything — And Endangered the World
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3.93 avg rating — 250 ratings
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Tasmanian Tiger: The tragic story of the thylacine
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3.94 avg rating — 185 ratings
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107 |
Disaster by Choice: How Our Actions Turn Natural Hazards Into Catastrophes
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Ilan Kelman (Goodreads Author)
3.68 avg rating — 303 ratings
score: 79,
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107 |
Overheated: How Capitalism Broke the Planet--And How We Fight Back
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3.95 avg rating — 246 ratings
score: 79,
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107 |
The Book of the Barn Owl
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Sally Coulthard (Goodreads Author)
4.15 avg rating — 165 ratings
score: 79,
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110 |
Spirits of the Coast: Orcas in science, art and history
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4.57 avg rating — 127 ratings
score: 78,
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110 |
The Bears Ears: A Human History of America's Most Endangered Wilderness
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3.96 avg rating — 415 ratings
score: 78,
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110 |
Hortus Curious: Discover the World's Most Weird and Wonderful Plants and Fungi
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score: 78,
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113 |
Green Meat?: Sustaining Eaters, Animals, and the Planet
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Ryan M. Katz-Rosene (Editor)
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score: 77,
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113 |
Gone: A Search for What Remains of the World’s Extinct Creatures
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Michael Blencowe (Goodreads Author)
4.38 avg rating — 381 ratings
score: 77,
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113 |
George: A Magpie Memoir
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3.79 avg rating — 1,684 ratings
score: 77,
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116 |
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
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Merlin Sheldrake (Goodreads Author)
4.33 avg rating — 48,835 ratings
score: 76,
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116 |
Life's Edge: The Search for What It Means to Be Alive
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Carl Zimmer (Goodreads Author)
3.94 avg rating — 2,252 ratings
score: 76,
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116 |
Questions Raised by Quolls: Fatherhood and Conservation in an Uncertain World
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Harry Saddler (Goodreads Author)
4.12 avg rating — 67 ratings
score: 76,
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119 |
The Beauty of Chemistry: Art, Wonder, and Science
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4.06 avg rating — 69 ratings
score: 75,
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119 |
A Clear Flowing Yarra
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Harry Saddler (Goodreads Author)
3.82 avg rating — 110 ratings
score: 75,
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121 |
The Earth Prescription: Discover the Healing Power of Nature with Grounding Practices for Every Season
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3.83 avg rating — 156 ratings
score: 74,
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121 |
A Brief History of Earth: Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters
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3.94 avg rating — 4,343 ratings
score: 74,
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121 |
A Housefly Buzzes in the Key of F: Fascinating Facts on All Things Flora and Fauna
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Simon Nicholls (Author & Compiler)
3.07 avg rating — 28 ratings
score: 74,
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124 |
The Museum of Whales You Will Never See: And Other Excursions to Iceland's Most Unusual Museums
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A. Kendra Greene (Goodreads Author)
3.71 avg rating — 840 ratings
score: 73,
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124 |
Searching for Seashells: An Artist's Guide to Treasures on the Beach
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4.54 avg rating — 26 ratings
score: 73,
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126 |
Living in the Long Emergency: Global Crisis, the Failure of the Futurists, and the Early Adapters Who Are Showing Us the Way Forward
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3.56 avg rating — 169 ratings
score: 72,
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126 |
A Mudlarking Year
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4.38 avg rating — 216 ratings
score: 72,
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128 |
Trees in Trouble: Wildfires, Infestations, and Climate Change
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4.12 avg rating — 137 ratings
score: 71,
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128 |
Mr and Mrs Gould
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4.18 avg rating — 181 ratings
score: 71,
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130 |
The Book of Eels: Our Enduring Fascination with the Most Mysterious Creature in the Natural World
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3.92 avg rating — 21,750 ratings
score: 70,
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131 |
The End of Ice
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4.19 avg rating — 927 ratings
score: 69,
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132 |
Cat Tale: The Wild, Weird Battle to Save the Florida Panther
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Craig Pittman (Goodreads Author)
4.16 avg rating — 986 ratings
score: 68,
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133 |
An Environmental History of the Civil War
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4.29 avg rating — 130 ratings
score: 67,
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134 |
Hacking Planet Earth: How Geoengineering Can Help Us Reimagine the Future
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3.83 avg rating — 130 ratings
score: 66,
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135 |
The Flavor of Wood: In Search of the Wild Taste of Trees from Smoke and Sap to Root and Bark
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Artur Cisar-Erlach (Goodreads Author)
3.81 avg rating — 42 ratings
score: 65,
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Oak Flat: A Fight for Sacred Land in the American West
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4.18 avg rating — 1,957 ratings
score: 64,
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137 |
The World Beneath Their Feet: Mountaineering, Madness, and the Deadly Race to Summit the Himalayas
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4.24 avg rating — 895 ratings
score: 63,
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138 |
The Pollinator Victory Garden: Win the War on Pollinator Decline with Ecological Gardening; Attract and Support Bees, Beetles, Butterflies, Bats, and Other Pollinators
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Kim Eierman (Goodreads Author)
4.30 avg rating — 200 ratings
score: 61,
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139 |
Epic Solitude: A Story of Survival and a Quest for Meaning in the Far North
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Katherine Keith (Goodreads Author)
3.86 avg rating — 527 ratings
score: 60,
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140 |
Erosion: Essays of Undoing
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4.25 avg rating — 2,153 ratings
score: 59,
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141 |
First, Catch: Study of a Spring Meal
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4.36 avg rating — 106 ratings
score: 58,
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142 |
Environmental Justice in a Moment of Danger
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3.86 avg rating — 142 ratings
score: 57,
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143 |
Natural Rivals: John Muir, Gifford Pinchot, and the Creation of America's Public Lands
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John Clayton (Goodreads Author)
3.71 avg rating — 350 ratings
score: 53,
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144 |
Energy Systems: A Very Short Introduction
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3.79 avg rating — 97 ratings
score: 52,
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145 |
Opium: How an Ancient Flower Shaped and Poisoned Our World
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John H. Halpern (Goodreads Author)
3.69 avg rating — 649 ratings
score: 51,
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146 |
End Times: A Brief Guide to the End of the World: Asteroids, Super Volcanoes, Rogue Robots, and More
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3.88 avg rating — 503 ratings
score: 49,
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147 |
The Ocean Reader: History, Culture, Politics
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Eric Paul Roorda (Editor)
4.50 avg rating — 10 ratings
score: 48,
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148 |
Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss
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Margaret Renkl (Goodreads Author)
4.30 avg rating — 7,428 ratings
score: 47,
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149 |
Strange Harvests: The Hidden Histories of Seven Natural Objects
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3.61 avg rating — 584 ratings
score: 46,
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150 |
Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?
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score: 44,
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151 |
Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World
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4.07 avg rating — 1,700 ratings
score: 43,
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152 |
In Oceans Deep: Courage, Innovation, and Adventure Beneath the Waves
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Bill Streever (Goodreads Author)
3.74 avg rating — 346 ratings
score: 42,
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153 |
Eat Like a Fish: My Adventures as a Fisherman Turned Restorative Ocean Farmer
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4.39 avg rating — 1,913 ratings
score: 41,
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154 |
The Sakura Obsession: The Incredible Story of the Plant Hunter Who Saved Japan's Cherry Blossoms
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3.89 avg rating — 1,351 ratings
score: 40,
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155 |
The Ice at the End of the World: An Epic Journey into Greenland's Buried Past and Our Perilous Future
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Jon Gertner (Goodreads Author)
4.17 avg rating — 1,276 ratings
score: 39,
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156 |
Skeleton Keys: The Secret Life of Bone
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Brian Switek (Goodreads Author)
3.71 avg rating — 1,006 ratings
score: 37,
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