Dirty Coal – The Real Priority for the Paris Conference
The United Nations Conference on Climate Change – an annual meeting of all countries that want to take…
Environment
The Paris Conference on Climate Change – Copenhagen all over again?
‘Climate change is a long-term problem and it needs a long game.’ The United Nations Conference on Climate…
Flight to the Arctic: The Narrow Edge
The rufa red knot sandpiper and the common horseshoe crab, two relatively unassuming creatures, are the focus of a…
Voices of the Wild – Echoes from a Soundscape Ecologist
Article by Bernie Krause, author of Voices of the Wild ‘While a picture may be worth a thousand…
Six Surprising Owl Facts
By Tony Angell, author of The House of Owls — To most of us owls are mysterious and elusive…
Back to the Garden: Books For Summer 2015
Summer is fast approaching, and while we can keep our fingers crossed that June and July will be…
The Narrow Edge: Tracking the Red Knot
Deborah Cramer has spent the last few years following a relatively unknown and unassuming shorebird, the red knot….
Samuel Palmer: Shadows on the Wall
Nineteenth-century Britain produced some of the most notable and innovative landscape painters of all time and saw the…
Chelsea Flower Show: A Natural History of English Gardening
The Chelsea Flower Show is one of the most famous horticultural events in the world and although no…
Hawthorn – 10 facts about one of our oldest plant companions
‘There is more violence in an English hedgerow than in the meanest streets of a great city.’ –…
Where The Wild Books Are: Nature Books Round-Up
To celebrate the advent of Spring and also annual World Wildlife Day, we have a nature books round-up…
5 books to watch (and read) in 2015
We’ve had an exciting year here at Yale UP London, with highlights such as a Nobel prize-winning author,…
10 Commandments of Bird Watching
Yale’s latest avian title offers advice about the best ways in which we can share our gardens and neighbourhoods with our feathered…
The Future of Clean Water
With the planet’s clean water sources strained by over-population and pollution, Yale University Press sat down with Water 4.0 author David…
China’s Innovation Hurdle
Drawing on extensive research and experience living and working in Asia over the last thirty-five years, Stumbling Giant…