The Climate and Environment Reading List

A list of popular science books I found most useful when researching climate change and other environmental issues.

Contents

• Action Plans
• Agriculture
• Air Pollution
• Biodiversity
• Carbon Footprint
• Economics and Finance
• Extreme Weather Events
• History of Climate Change
• Natural Resources
• Nuclear Disasters

Action Plans

Title, author, publisher	Paperback cover
How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need. Bill Gates. Penguin Books, 2022.
Speed & Scale: A Global Action Plan for Solving Our Climate Crisis Now. John Doerr. Penguin Books, 2021.

Agriculture

Title, author, publisher	Paperback cover
Regenesis: Feeding the World Without Devouring the Planet. George Monbiot. Penguin Books, 2023.

Air Pollution

Title, author, publisher	Paperback cover
Choked: The Age of Air Pollution and the Fight for a Cleaner Future. Beth Gardiner. Granta Books, 2020.
Clearing the Air: The Beginning and the End of Air Pollution. Tim Smedley. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020.

Biodiversity

Title, author, publisher	Paperback cover
Rewilding the Sea: How to Save Our Oceans. Charles Clover. Ebury Publishing, 2023.

Carbon Footprint

Title, author, publisher	Paperback cover
How Bad Are Bananas?: The carbon footprint of everything. Mike Berners-Lee. Profile Books, 2020.
The Carbon Almanac. Multiple Authors. Penguin Books, 2022.

Economics and Finance

Title, author, publisher	Paperback cover
The Value of a Whale: On the Illusions of Green Capitalism. Adrienne Buller. Manchester University Press, 2022.

Extreme Weather Events

Title, author, publisher	Paperback cover
Fire Weather: A Story from a Hotter World. John Vaillant. Sceptre, 2023.

History of Climate Change

Title, author, publisher	Paperback cover
Fire & Flood: A People's History of Climate Change, from 1979 to the Present. Eugene Linden. Penguin Books, 2023.
Losing Earth: The Decade We Could Have Stopped Climate Change. Nathaniel Rich. Pan Macmillan, 2020.

Natural Resources

Title, author, publisher	Paperback cover
Volt Rush: The Winners and Losers in the Race to Go Green. Henry Sanderson. Oneworld Publications, 2020.
The Last Drop: Solving the World's Water Crisis. Tim Smedley. Pan Macmillan, 2023.

Nuclear Disasters

Title, author, publisher	Paperback cover
Manual for Survival: A Chernobyl Guide to the Future. Kate Brown. Penguin Books, 2020.