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Caroline Tracey, "Salt Lakes: An Unnatural History" (W. W. Norton, 2026)

46 mins; April 03, 2026

Vojta Hybl, "Rocks: A Guide to the Stones Around Us and the Stories They Tell" (Frances Lincoln, 2026)

37 mins; March 30, 2026

Nikita Kaur Simpson, "Tension: Mental Distress and Embodied Inequality in the Western Himalayas" (Duke UP, 2026)

49 mins; March 29, 2026

Becca Voelcker, "Land Cinema in an Age of Extraction" (U California Press, 2025)

70 hours 16 mins; March 21, 2026

Gods and the State: Environmental Change in the Blang Mountains, China

28 mins; March 20, 2026

Charles G. Curtin, "Place-Based Solutions: The Power of Regenerative Thinking in the Face of Crisis" (JHU Press, 2026)

46 mins; March 19, 2026

Andreas Malm and Wim Carton, "The Long Heat: Climate Politics When It’s Too Late" (Verso Books, 2025)

52 mins; March 18, 2026

Joseph Weiss, "Irreconcilable: Indigeneity and the Violence of Colonial Erasure in Contemporary Canada" (UNC Press, 2026)

65 hours 34 mins; March 17, 2026

Courtney Humphries, "Climate Change and the Future of Boston" (Anthem Press, 2026)

36 mins; March 16, 2026

Lauren M. MacLean, "Negotiating Power and Inequality in Ghana: Electricity and Citizenship as Reciprocity (Indiana UP, 2026)

80 hours 30 mins; March 15, 2026

Marianna Dudley, "Electric Wind: An Energy History of Modern Britain by Marianna Dudley" (Manchester UP, 2025)

44 mins; March 14, 2026

Cheng Li, "Contested Environmentalisms: Trees and the Making of Modern China" (Stanford UP, 2025)

49 mins; March 12, 2026

Cheng Li, "Contested Environmentalisms: Trees and the Making of Modern China" (Stanford UP, 2025)

50 mins; March 12, 2026

Selina Nwulu, "Black Climates: Notes on Race, Our Environment, and Visions for Equitable Futures" (Chatto & Windus, 2025)

48 mins; March 11, 2026

George Frazier, "Riverine Dreams: Away to the Glorious and Forgotten Grassland Rivers of America" (U Chicago Press, 2025)

41 mins; March 10, 2026

Geoffrey Jones and Sabine Pitteloud eds., "The Cambridge Companion to the History of Multinationals and Society" (Cambridge UP, 2026)

35 mins; March 10, 2026

Sezai Ozan Zeybek, "Animals, Justice, and the Politics of Violence: Shared Struggles in Turkey" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2025)

40 mins; March 09, 2026

Christiane Tristl, "Turning Water into Commodity: Digital Innovation and the Private Sector as Development Agent" (Bristol UP, 2025)

41 mins; March 08, 2026

Lucy Lavers et al.," Adventurous Vents: A Journey through the Ventilation Shafts of Britain" (Penguin, 2025)

59 mins; March 06, 2026

Nicholas Beuret, "Or Something Worse: Why We Need to Disrupt the Climate Transition" (Verso, 2025)

63 hours 36 mins; March 06, 2026

The Vet at the End of the Earth: Adventures with Animals in the South Atlantic

59 mins; March 05, 2026

Jennifer Boum Make, "Decolonial Care: Reimagining Caregiving in the French Caribbean" (Rutgers UP, 2025)

50 mins; March 04, 2026

Miles Kenney-Lazar, "Socializing Land: Plantations, Dispossession, and Resistance in Laos" (U Hawai’i Press, 2025)

61 hours 14 mins; March 04, 2026

Trish FitzSimons and Madelyn Shaw, "Fleeced: Unraveling the History of Wool and War" (Bloomsbury, 2025)

69 hours 10 mins; March 01, 2026

Aidan Seale-Feldman, "The Work of Disaster: Crisis and Care Along a Himalayan Fault Line" (U Chicago Press, 2025)

38 mins; February 23, 2026

Jason Cons, "Delta Futures: Time, Territory, and Capture on a Climate Frontier" (U California Press, 2025)

51 mins; February 23, 2026

Josh Milburn, "Food, Justice, and Animals: Feeding the World Respectfully" (Oxford UP, 2023)

76 hours 0 mins; February 21, 2026

Wendy Wolford, "The Plantation Ideal: Landscapes of Extraction in Mozambique" (U California Press, 2025)

66 hours 59 mins; February 21, 2026

Eray Çayli, "Earthmoving: Extractivism, War, and Visuality in Northern Kurdistan" (U Texas Press, 2025)

63 hours 10 mins; February 20, 2026

Thomas Zeitzoff, "No Option But Sabotage: The Radical Environmental Movement and the Climate Crisis" (Oxford UP, 2026)

58 mins; February 19, 2026

David Obst, "Saving Ourselves from Big Car" (Columbia Business School Publishing, 2025)

60 hours 41 mins; February 17, 2026

Carl Death, "African Climate Futures" (Oxford UP, 2025)

62 hours 15 mins; February 16, 2026

Cassandra Shepard, "Settler Colonialism is the Disaster: A Critique of New Orleans After Hurricane Katrina and During the COVID-19 Pandemic" (U Illinois Press, 2026)

49 mins; February 15, 2026

Javiera Barandiaran, "Living Minerals: Nature, Trade, and Power in the Race for Lithium" (MIT Press, 2026)

54 mins; February 13, 2026

Lys Kulamadayil, "Pathology of Plenty: Natural Resources in International Law" (Bloomsbury 2025)

65 hours 45 mins; February 13, 2026

Tom Bolton, "Atomic Albion: Journeys Around Britain’s Nuclear Power Stations" (Strange Attractor, 2025)

54 mins; February 11, 2026

Nancy Castaldo, "Squirrel: How a Backyard Forager Shapes Our World" (Island Press, 2025)

40 mins; February 09, 2026

China’s Climate and Air Quality Governance and EU-China Cooperation

29 mins; February 06, 2026

Joseph Scalia III and Lynne S. Scalia, "Critical Consciousness: Beyond Impasses in Environmentalism, Psychoanalysis, and Education" (Routledge, 2025)

64 hours 34 mins; February 05, 2026

Jason Roberts, "We Stay the Same: Subsistence, Logging, and Enduring Hopes for Development in Papua New Guinea" (U Arizona Press, 2024)

63 hours 5 mins; February 02, 2026

Allison Caine, "Restless Ecologies: Climate Change and Socioecological Futures in the Peruvian Highlands" (U Arizona Press, 2025)

49 mins; February 02, 2026

Michael Hurley, "Waterways of Bangkok: Memory, Landscape and Twilight" (NUS Press, 2025)

44 mins; February 01, 2026

Brahim El Guabli, "Desert Imaginations: A History of Saharanism and Its Radical Consequences" (U California Press, 2025)

50 mins; January 28, 2026

Tara Lohan, "Undammed: Freeing Rivers and Bringing Communities to Life" (Island Press, 2025)

36 mins; January 27, 2026

Laurie Parsons, "Carbon Colonialism: How Rich Countries Export Climate Breakdown" (Manchester UP, 2023)

44 mins; January 18, 2026

Gonzalo Lizarralde, "Unnatural Disasters: Why Most Responses to Risk and Climate Change Fail But Some Succeed" (Columbia UP, 2021)

45 mins; January 17, 2026

Caroline Peyton, "Radioactive Dixie: A Nuclear History of the American South" (U Georgia Press, 2025)

51 mins; January 17, 2026

Marcy Norton, "The Tame and the Wild: People and Animals after 1492" (Harvard UP, 2024)

60 hours 38 mins; January 11, 2026

Danielle Alesi, "Eating Animals in the Early Modern Atlantic World: Consuming Empire, 1492-1700" (Taylor & Francis, 2025)

45 mins; January 09, 2026

Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism with Thea Riofrancos

73 hours 52 mins; January 07, 2026

Peter Frankopan, "The Earth Transformed: An Untold History" (Knopf, 2023)

53 mins; January 06, 2026

Theodore J. Karamanski, "Great Lake: An Unnatural History of Lake Michigan" (U Michigan Press, 2026)

38 mins; January 06, 2026

Florentine Koppenborg, "Japan's Nuclear Disaster and the Politics of Safety Governance" (Cornell UP, 2023)

42 mins; January 05, 2026

Andrew W. Bernstein, "Fuji: A Mountain in the Making" (Princeton UP, 2025)

61 hours 37 mins; December 26, 2025

Weila Gong, "Implementing a Low-Carbon Future: Climate Leadership in Chinese Cities" (Oxford UP, 2025)

42 mins; December 24, 2025

Thomas Manuel Ortiz, "Why We Struggle to Go Green: Hard Truths about the Clean Energy Transition" (Texas A&M Press, 2025)

45 mins; December 24, 2025

Amy Bowers Cordalis, "The Water Remembers: My Indigenous Family's Fight to Save a River and a Way of Life" (Little Brown, 2024)

62 hours 51 mins; December 23, 2025

Caitlin Schroering, "Global Solidarities Against Water Grabbing: Without Water, We Have Nothing" (Manchester UP, 2024)

55 mins; December 21, 2025

Veronica House, "Local Organic: Food Rhetorics and Community Writing for Impact" (Utah State UP, 2025)

53 mins; December 20, 2025

Jennifer Ott, "Where the City Meets the Sound: The Story of Seattle's Waterfront" (HistoryLink, 2025) This

72 hours 32 mins; December 19, 2025

Katrina Navickas, "Contested Commons: A History of Protest and Public Space in England" (Reaktion, 2025)

29 mins; December 14, 2025

Peter Newell, "States of Transition: From Governing the Environment to Transforming Society" (Cambridge UP, 2025)

58 mins; December 13, 2025

Kathryn Chelminski, "Governing Energy Transitions: A Study of Regime Complex Effectiveness on Geothermal Development in Indonesia and the Philippines" (Cambridge UP, 2025)

55 mins; December 12, 2025

Andrew Bernstein, "Fuji: A Mountain In The Making" (Princeton UP, 2025)

44 mins; December 12, 2025

Living Night: On the Secret Wonders of Wildlife After Dark

64 hours 58 mins; December 11, 2025

Christopher Key Chapple, "Embodied Ecology: Yoga and the Environment" (Mandala Publishing, 2025)

44 mins; December 11, 2025

Rob Holmes et. al., "Silt Sand Slurry: Dredging, Sediment, and the Worlds We Are Making" (Applied Research & Design, 2023)

57 mins; December 11, 2025

Montserrat Bonvehi Rosich and Seth Denizen, "Thinking Through Soil: Wastewater Agriculture in the Mezquital Valley" (Harvard UP, 2025)

61 hours 53 mins; December 10, 2025

Aaron Smale, "Tairāwhiti: Pine, Profit and the Cyclone" (Bridget Williams, 2024)

44 mins; December 09, 2025

Gregory S. Wilson, "Poison Powder: The Kepone Disaster in Virginia and Its Legacy" (U Georgia Press, 2023)

69 hours 48 mins; December 07, 2025

Chad Augustine Córdova, "Toward a Premodern Posthumanism: Anarchic Ontologies of Earthly Life in Early Modern France" (Northwestern UP, 2025)

55 mins; December 06, 2025

Jessica F. Green, "Existential Politics: Why Global Climate Institutions Are Failing and How to Fix Them" (Princeton UP, 2025)

27 mins; December 02, 2025

Is a River Alive?: A Conversation with Robert Macfarlane

34 mins; December 01, 2025

Joshua Duclos, "Wilderness, Morality, and Value" (Lexington Books, 2022)

67 hours 29 mins; December 01, 2025

Jean-Thomas Tremblay, "Breathing Aesthetics" (Duke UP, 2022)

63 hours 40 mins; November 30, 2025

Thomas Princen, "Fire and Flood: Extreme Events and Social Change Past, Present, Future" (MIT Press, 2025)

35 mins; November 29, 2025

Conversations with Birds

56 mins; November 27, 2025

Micah S. Muscolino, "Remaking the Earth, Exhausting the People: The Burden of Conservation in Modern China" (U Washington Press, 2025)

64 hours 35 mins; November 25, 2025

Stephen D. Hopper, "Eucalyptus" (Reaktion, 2025)

49 mins; November 24, 2025

Ilan Kelman, "Antarcticness: Inspirations and Imaginaries" (UCL Press, 2022)

42 mins; November 23, 2025

Arpitha Kodiveri, "Governing Forests: State, Law and Citizenship in India’s Forests" (Melbourne UP, 2024)

108 hours 13 mins; November 22, 2025

Jemma Deer, "Radical Animism: Reading for the End of the World" (Bloomsbury, 2020)

45 mins; November 16, 2025

Anand P. Vaidya, "Future of the Forest: Struggles over Land and Law in India" (Cornell UP, 2025)

83 hours 11 mins; November 13, 2025

Lisa Vanhala, "Governing the End: The Making of Climate Change Loss and Damage" (U Chicago Press, 2025)

50 mins; November 12, 2025

Karine Gagné, "Caring for Glaciers: Land, Animals, and Humanity in the Himalayas" (U Washington Press, 2019)

101 hours 53 mins; November 09, 2025

Christopher Ali, "Farm Fresh Broadband: The Politics of Rural Connectivity" (MIT, 2021)

52 mins; November 09, 2025

Ihnji Jon, "Cities in the Anthropocene: New Ecology and Urban Politics" (Pluto Press, 2021)

43 mins; November 08, 2025

Charles Watkins, "Trees Ancient and Modern: Woodland Cultures and Conservation" (Reaktion, 2025)

55 mins; November 05, 2025

Michael Maniates, "The Living-Green Myth" (Polity Press, 2025)

51 mins; November 02, 2025

Garrett Hardin’s Tragic Environmentalism

75 hours 27 mins; October 27, 2025

A Song for the Horses: Musical Heritage for More-than-Human Futures in Mongolia

63 hours 34 mins; October 27, 2025

R. Jisung Park, "Slow Burn: The Hidden Costs of a Warming World" (Princeton UP, 2025)

44 mins; October 25, 2025

Jesse Rodenbiker, "Ecological States: Politics of Science and Nature in Urbanizing China" (Cornell UP, 2023)

65 hours 21 mins; October 24, 2025

Eva Meijer, "Multispecies Assemblies" (Vine Press, 2025)

64 hours 56 mins; October 21, 2025

Ron Broglio, "Animal Revolution" (U Minnesota Press, 2022)

49 mins; October 20, 2025

In Search of Green China: Ma Tianjie on Pan Yue and the CCP’s “Ecological Civilization"

76 hours 13 mins; October 18, 2025

Lily Hsueh, "Corporations at Climate Crossroads: Multilevel Governance, Public Policy, and Global Climate Action" (MIT Press, 2025)

36 mins; October 17, 2025

Christopher F. Jones, "The Invention of Infinite Growth: How Economists Forgot About the Natural World" (Simon and Schuster, 2025)

52 mins; October 17, 2025

The Light Between Apple Trees: Rediscovering the Wild Through a Beloved American Fruit

50 mins; October 16, 2025

Future of the Forest: Struggles over Land and Law in India

31 mins; October 13, 2025

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