In His New Novel, Richard Powers Writes From a Tree’s Point of View
By Michael Berry April 3, 2018“The Overstory” turns the growing evidence of plant communication into literature
Climate Visionary Ursula K. Le Guin
By Michael Berry January 30, 2018Consider these six works by the late author your required reading for 2018
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Bill McKibben's Novel Imagines Life in the Midst of Runaway Climate Change
By Michael Berry December 18, 2017"Radio Free Vermont" offers a soothing, utopian vision of this hot century
Paul Kingsnorth Ditches False Hope for "Dark Ecology"
By Michael Berry August 24, 2017Scythe in hand, a "recovering environmentalist" takes a whack at planet politicking
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Kim Stanley Robinson On His New Book, Climate Change, and Why He’s Still Optimistic
By Michael Berry March 13, 2017"New York 2140" is set in a Manhattan flooded by rising sea levels. Its characters have had it with global capitalism.
The Brains of Beasts
By Michael Berry July 28, 2016In the book Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?, Frans de Waal argues that our fellow creatures deserve more credit
Dying to Live
By Michael Berry February 10, 2016In Learning to Die in the Anthropocene, Roy Scranton explores the global failure to address the climate crisis.