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    Category: Science & Environment

    The Planet Remade

    The Planet Remade

    Author: Oliver Morton
    Reviewer: Paul Kieniewicz
    Category: Science & Environment
    Oliver Morton, an award winning science writer has written extensively on planetary science. Here he offers us a new way to think about our planet,…… Read More »
    Brave New Arctic

    Brave New Arctic

    Author: Mark C. Serreze
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Science & Environment
    Subtitled 'the untold story of the melting north', I was curious to see if the work of Peter Wadhams on this topic reviewed last summer…… Read More »
    Anthropocene – A Very Short Introduction

    Anthropocene – A Very Short Introduction

    Author: Erle C. Ellis
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Science & Environment
    An excellent introduction to this still controversial concept that appeared in the Oxford English Dictionary in 2014 and defined as the period in which human…… Read More »
    Global Catastrophes – A Very Short Introduction

    Global Catastrophes – A Very Short Introduction

    Author: Bill McGuire
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Science & Environment
    An informative if dispiriting update on when and how the world might come to an end, whether natural or human induced. It is sobering to…… Read More »
    A FAREWELL TO ICE

    A FAREWELL TO ICE

    Author: Peter Wadhams
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Science & Environment
    Peter Wadhams was Professor of Ocean Physics from 1992 to 2015, and has devoted his entire career to the study of the Arctic, making more…… Read More »
    Climate Change - the Science, Impacts and Solutions

    Climate Change - the Science, Impacts and Solutions

    Author: A. Barrie Pittock
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Science & Environment
    This is the most comprehensive book on climate change I have yet come across, and must count as the single volume to buy if you…… Read More »

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