There Are Rivers in the Sky
This is the story of one lost poem, two great rivers, and three remarkable lives – all connected by a single drop of water.
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In the ruins of Nineveh, that ancient city of Mesopotamia,...
Books: Climate change
The Book of Fire
This morning, I met the man who started the fire. He did something terrible, but then, so have I. I left him. I left him and now he may be dead.
Once upon a time there was a beautiful village that...
The High House
Crisis slid from distant threat to imminent probability and we tuned it out like static
Francesca is Caro’s stepmother, and Pauly’s mother. A scientist, she can see what is going to...
A Life on Our Planet
I am 93. I've had an extraordinary life. It's only now that I appreciate how extraordinary.
As a young man, I felt I was out there in the wild, experiencing the untouched natural world -...
The Uninhabitable Earth
It is worse, much worse, than you think.
The slowness of climate change is a fairy tale, perhaps as pernicious as the one that says it isn't happening at all, and if your anxiety about it is...
