**A wondrous journey along the greatest ocean current—**classic travel writing and celebrations of natural wonders under threatOur world is a freak of nature. The finely balanced arrangement of ice at the poles and heat in the tropics is a once in a billion-year miracle of physics - made and sustained by the cooling system of the planet: ocean currents. The Gulf Stream system moves more water than all the freshwater rivers of the earth combined and four hundred tim...

Winner of the 2023 Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism**"Original and readable." ―Financial Times' Best Environmental Books of 2022"Superb, inspiring." ―Winner, National Academies of Science Schmidt Awards for Excellence in Science Communications**“Illuminating.” —Silver Medalist, National Outdoor Book AwardsLonglisted for the American Library Association's 2023 Carnegie Medal for Excelle...

Finalist for the Dayton Literary Peace PrizeNamed a Best of Book of the Year by The Economist and Foreign AffairsLos Angeles Times Book Prize FinalistThe Dadaab refugee camp is many things: to the charity workers, it's a humanitarian crisis; to the Kenyan government, a "nursery for terrorists"; to the Western media, a dangerous no-go area. But to its half a million residents, it's their last resort.Situated hundreds of miles fr...

**A wondrous journey along the greatest ocean current—**classic travel writing and celebrations of natural wonders under threatOur world is a freak of nature. The finely balanced arrangement of ice at the poles and heat in the tropics is a once in a billion-year miracle of physics - made and sustained by the cooling system of the planet: ocean currents. The Gulf Stream system moves more water than all the freshwater rivers of the earth combined and four hundred tim...

In the tradition of Elizabeth Kolbert and Barry Lopez, a powerful, poetic and deeply absorbing account of the “lung” at the top of the world.For the last fifty years, the trees of the boreal forest have been moving north. The Treeline takes us along this critical frontier of our warming planet from Norway to Siberia, Alaska to Greenland, to meet the scientists, residents and trees confronting huge geological changes. Only the hardest species survive at the...