Environmental

The story of the American West is the story of a relentless quest for a precious resource: water. It is a tale of rivers diverted and dammed, of political corruptions and intrigue....

Bill Gates shares what he's learned in more than a decade of studying climate change and investing in innovations to address the problems, and sets out a vision for how the world can build the tools it needs to get to zero greenhouse gas emissions....

The grid is an accident of history and of culture, in no way intrinsic to how we produce, deliver and consume electrical power. Yet this is the system the United States ended up with....

Conquer the Water Treatment Plant Operator Certification Exam: Your Guide to a Career Ensuring Clean and Safe Drinking Water provides a ...

A globe-trotting work of relentless investigative reporting, Waste Wars is the first major book to expose the catastrophic reality of the multi-billion-dollar global garbage trade.

From a preeminent historian of Eastern Europe, the definitive history of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster....

It's in our food, our clothes, and our homes. It's microplastic and it's everywhere—including our own bodies. Scientists are just beginning to discover how these tiny particles threaten health, but the studies are alarming....

In an era where unpredictability is the only certainty, these essential guides are combined for those determined to be prepared for anything. This collection is not just about survival; it's about thriving in the face of the unknown.

Bold is a radical, how-to guide for using exponential technologies, moonshot thinking, and crowd-powered tools to create extraordinary wealth....

This radical, paradigm-shifting international bestseller destroys our delusions about energy consumption and will change the way we talk about climate change.

This comprehensive study guide is your key to unlocking success in the FE Civil Exam. Designed with both aspiring and current engineers in mind, it walks you through every essential topic, from mathematics and structural analysis to fluid mechanics and transportation engineering.

Conquer the Wastewater Treatment Plant Operator Certification Exam: Your Guide to a Career Managing and Treating Wastewater is an in-depth guide ...

The Colorado River is an essential resource for a surprisingly large part of the United States, and every gallon that flows down it is owned or claimed by someone. David Owen traces all that water from the Colorado’s headwaters to its parched terminus, once a verdant wetland....

In 2006, John Doerr was moved by Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth and a challenge from his teenage daughter: “Dad, your generation created this problem. You better fix it.” Since then, Doerr has searched for solutions to this existential problem....

In Wasteland, journalist Oliver Franklin-Wallis takes us on a shocking journey inside the waste industry—the secretive multi-billion dollar world that underpins the modern economy, quietly profiting from what we leave behind....

In Anna Clark's full account of this American tragedy, The Poisoned City recounts the gripping story of Flint’s poisoned water through the people who caused it, suffered from it, and exposed it. It is a chronicle of one town, but could also be about any American city....

In 1907 Irish immigrant William Mulholland conceived and built one of the greatest civil engineering feats in history: the aqueduct that carried water 223 miles....

In the twentieth century, wealth and power was dictated by access to oil. This century will have different kingmakers, perhaps different wars....

Burn looks beyond renewable biomass or carbon capture energy systems to offer a bigger and bolder vision for the next phase of human progress, moving carbon from wasted sources into soils and agricultural systems to rebalance the carbon, nitrogen, and related cycles....

When it comes to the climate, we don’t need more marketing or anxiety. We need established facts and a plan for collective action....

"Conquer the EPA 608 Exam: Your Comprehensive Guide to Refrigerant Handling Certification" is an essential resource for technicians in the ...

“Domine el examen EPA 608: Su guía completa para la certificación de manejo de refrigerantes” es un recurso esencial para los técnicos del ...

From an award-winning science journalist comes a lively, informative, and humorous deep dive into the future of the toilet - from creative uses for harvested “biosolids”, to the bold engineers dedicated to bringing safe sanitation to the billions of people worldwide living without....

Kristen Iversen grew up in a small Colorado town close to Rocky Flats, a secret nuclear weapons plant once designated "the most contaminated site in America"....

Edward Humes investigates trash - what's in it; how much we pay for it; how we manage to create so much of it....