Thunder and Lightning: Weather, Past, Present, Future
Lauren Redniss is the winner of the 2016 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award for Thunder and Lightning: Weather, Past, Present, Future. More
Island on Fire: The Extraordinary Story of a Forgotten Volcano That Changed the World
"Laki spewed out more sulfur dioxide—about 122 million tons of it—than any other eruption in the past 1,000 years. That’s more than enough to wreak climate havoc well beyond… More
The Boy Who Played with Fusion: Extreme Science, Extreme Parenting, and How to Make a Star
"Instead of instinctively doing what most parents would regard as common sense—keeping their child away from things that could kill him—Tiffany and Kenneth shifted to what was essentially a… More
The End of Plenty: The Race to Feed a Crowded World
"If everyone in the world ate as much meat as Americans do (176 pounds per person per year), we’d need to find another planet to raise the feed and… More
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