Environment

Recap 2025: The year in environmental literature

8 books that shifted the needle this year, from the deep biosphere to the frontlines of climate justice

DTE Staff

Creature Needs Writers Respond to the Science of Animal Conservation

A kaleidoscopic literary exploration of extinction and conservation, inspired by the latest scientific research.

My Head For A Tree: The Extraordinary Story of the Bishnoi, the World’s First Eco-Warriors

My Head for a Tree offers a timely reflection on indigenous, community-based activism and how we might adjust our lives to fight for the natural world.

Doctors by Nature: How Ants, Apes, and Other Animals Heal Themselves Kindle Edition

The astonishing story of how animals use medicine and what it can teach us about healing ourselves

Climate Injustice: Why We Need to Fight Global Inequality to Combat Climate Change

From one of the world’s most celebrated thinkers on climate change comes a groundbreaking investigation into the human costs of extreme weather.

The Ocean's Menagerie: How Earth's Strangest Creatures Reshape the Rules of Life

From a world-renowned marine biologist comes is a transporting exploration of how the strangest and most remarkable creatures on our planet are informing cutting-edge science.

Intraterrestrials: Discovering the Strangest Life on Earth

A biologist’s firsthand account of the hunt for life beneath earth’s surface—and how new discoveries are challenging our most basic assumptions about the nature of life on Earth

Human Nature: Nine Ways to Feel About Our Changing Planet

A captivating exploration of climate change that uses nine different emotions to better understand the science, history, and future of our evolving planet.

The Whispers of Rock: Stories from the Earth

From the sacred stones of Stonehenge to the rose red city of Petra, from towering mountains to the smallest grains of sand, rocks have had a profound influence on human life. Anjana Khatwa, an award-winning earth scientist and TV presenter, tells us in beautifully descriptive writing how rocks have been shaped over the eons-but also how they have shaped us.