Coral Reefs – beauty and wonder lie within superficially simple stories about their residents
Anyone who has watched one or two documentaries about coral reefs will have heard about cleaning stations. A…
Environment
Staff Pick: Nature Books
In celebration of Earth Day on 22nd April, Yale University Press London staff choose their favourite books on…
Nature Inside: Plants and Flowers in the Modern Interior
We seem, today, to be infatuated with indoor plants and flowers. Many of our every day public indoor…
Blooming Flowers by Kasia Boddy – An Extract
The fact that the daisy grows in so many places — native to western, central and northern Europe,…
An A-Z of the World – E. H. Gombrich on: Galileo Galilei
As an aid to students, teachers and parents dealing with the challenges of home learning, we have constructed…
Content Collection | New Scientist Live
New Scientist Live is an award-winning, mind-expanding festival of ideas and discoveries for everyone curious about science and…
Gardens and Gardening by Jill Francis
The extravagant gardens of the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century British aristocracy are well-documented and celebrated, but the more modest…
Five Things You (Maybe) Didn’t Know About Biological Invasions
Award-winning adventure and science journalist, Leslie Anthony, offers five things you (maybe) didn’t know about the burgeoning environmental…
The Paleo Diet and Ancient Civilisation, by James C. Scott
In his latest work, Against the Grain, James C. Scott explores why humans abandoned hunting and gathering for…
Gardens of Court and Country – Celebrating Hampton Court Flower Show
To celebrate this Year’s Royal Horticultural Society Hampton Court Palace Flower Show, the Yale Books Blog is in…
How do we fix climate change? – An extract from Ben Barber’s Cool Cities
The climate change debate is at the top of the news agenda and is proving controversial among nations….
Decarbonisation and the fossil fuels – what happens next? by Dieter Helm, Part 3 of 3
Dieter Helm, author of Burn Out, asks whether oil, gas and coal company executives should be quaking in their…
Digitalisation: The Deadly Threat to Fossil Fuels by Dieter Helm, Part 2 of 3
Industry expert Dieter Helm states that an energy revolution is under way. Below, he controversially surveys existing and future…
Trump Gets Lucky on Energy by Dieter Helm, Part 1 of 3
The Trump narrative on energy is, like his on manufacturing, full of holes. But this might not matter…
Consumers and the Path to Safely-Produced Products by Paul Blanc
Paul Blanc sheds lights on the environmental and public health hazards of producing “fake silk”, viscose rayon, a…