Read The Sixth Extinction

Rachel Carson on DDT and the birds that stopped singing; the book that started environmentalism.

A botanist and Potawatomi woman on what plants teach about gratitude; the slow bestseller.

A German forester on how trees talk, share and remember.

Nine strangers and the trees that change their lives; Powers' Pulitzer.

Two years in a cabin by a pond; Thoreau on living deliberately.

Chris McCandless walks into Alaska and dies in a bus; Krakauer reconstructs why.

Peter Matthiessen walks to Dolpo with a zoologist looking for a cat he never sees.

Cooperative climate policy: decarbonise before the planet runs out of patience.