Resources

BOOKS FOR A GENERAL AUDIENCE

Climate Change, Global Warming, and Hope for Our Future

Silent Spring by Rachel Caron (2002)

The End of Nature by Bill McKibben (2006)

An Inconvenient Truth by Al Gore (2006)

The Global Warning Reader: A Century of Writing About Climate Change by Bill McKibben (2012)

The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert (2014)

Half-Earth: Our Planet’s Fight for Life by Edward O. Wilson (2016)

The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming by David Wallace-Wells (2019)

A Life of our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future  by David Attenborough and Jonnie Hughes (2020)

The New Climate War: The Fight to Take Back Our Planet by Michael E. Mann (2021)

The Climate Book: The Facts and the Solutions by Greta Thunberg (2023)

The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times  by Jane Goodall, Douglas Abrams, et. al. (2021)

The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Earth by Jeff Goodell (2023)

What if We Get It Right?: Visions of Climate Futures  by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson  (2023)

Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet  by  Hannah Ritchie  (2024)

Turtles

The Turtle Crisis: Turtles and Tortoises on the Brink of Extinction by Craig Stanford (2024)

My Life with Sea Turtles: A Marine Biologist’s Quest to Protect One of the Most Ancient Animals on Earth by Christine Figgener  (2024)

Of Time and Turtles: Mending the World, Shell by Shattered Shell by Sy Montgomery and Matt Patterson (2023)

Sea Turtles: A Complete Guide to Their Biology, Behavior, and Conservation by James R. Spotila (2004)

Turtles of the World: Annotated Checklist and Atlas of Taxonomy, Synonymy, Distribution, and Conservation Status by Turtle Taxonomy Working Group: Anders G.J. Rhodin, et. al.  (9th Ed., 2021)

Animal Extinction

The Fate of the Species: Why the Human Race May Cause Its Own Extinction and How We Can Stop It  by Fred Guterl  (2012)

Sold into Extinction: The Global Trade in Endangered Species by Jacqueline L. Schneider  (2012)

Beloved Beasts: Fighting for Life in an Age of Extinction by Michelle Nijhuis  ( 2021)

Lost Animals: Extinct, Endangered, and Rediscovered Species by John Whitfield (2020)

Migration

Migration: The Biology of Life on the Move by Hugh Dingle (2014)

The Monarch Butterfly Migration by Monika Maeckle (2014)

Butterflies

The Monarch Butterfly: Biology and Conservation by K. S. Oberhauser and M.J. Solensky (2004)

Monarchs and Milkweed by Anurag Agrawal (2017)

Fungi

The Fungal Kingdom by David Hibbett, et. al. (2014)

Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World by Paul Stamets (2005)

Fungi: A Very Short Introduction by Nicholas P. Money  (2016)

The Mushroom at the End of the World by Anna Tsing  (2021)

Moss

Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses by Robin Wall Kimmerer (2003)

Lichenpedia: A Brief Compendium by Kay Hurley and Susan Adele Edwards (2024)