"In the tradition of Elizabeth Kolbert and Barry Lopez, a powerful, poetic and deeply absorbing account of the "lung" at the top of the world. For the last fifty years, the trees of the boreal forest have been moving north. Ben Rawlence's The Treeline takes us along this critical frontier of our warming planet from Norway to Siberia, Alaska to Greenland, to meet the scientists, residents and trees confronting huge geological changes. Only the hardest...

"On Earth, everything is connected, even if we can't see it right away. Biogeology is the study of the important-and sometimes weird-relationships between living things and the Earth itself. Young readers might know how beavers dam rivers to make ponds. But they might not know about the hungry bacteria that eat rocks to make sparkly minerals like pyrite, also called fool's gold! This fun, fact-filled title reinforces essential science concepts with...

Thirty years ago, Alfred Crosby published a small work that stressed a simple point - that the most important changes brought on by the voyages of Columbus were not social or political, but biological in nature. This 30th anniversary edition includes a new preface from the author.