Earth Day 2026

Updated April 16, 2026
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Rising Dispatches from the New American Shore
Rush, Elizabeth
Ebook
A Pulitzer Prize Finalist, this powerful elegy for our disappearing coast "captures nature with precise words that almost amount to poetry" ( The New York Times). Hailed as "the book on climate change and sea levels that was missing" ( Chicago Tribune), Rising<...
The ends of the world : volcanic apocalypses, lethal oceans and our quest to understand Earth's past mass extinctions
Brannen, Peter
Paper Book
Our world has stood on the brink of Armageddon five times - discover how it came back from the brink 'Gripping.' The New Yorker Apocalypse, now? Death by fire, ice, poison gas, suffocation, asteroid. At five moments through history life on Earth was dragged to the very...
How to give up plastic : a guide to changing the world, one plastic bottle at a time
McCallum, Will
Paper Book
As read by James Corden, Fearne Cotton, Jim Chapman and Dougie Poytner. 'We have a responsibility, every one of us' David Attenborough Around 12.7 million tonnes of plastic are entering the ocean every year, killing over 1 million seabirds and 100,000 marine mammals. ...
Storming the wall : climate change, migration, and homeland security
Miller, Todd
Paper Book
RECIPIENT OF THE 2018 IZZY AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM "Every so often a book comes along that can dramatically change, or elevate, one's thinking about a global problem. Much like Naomi Klein's books, Todd Miller's Storming the Wall is such a book and deserves far...
The uninhabitable earth : life after warming
Wallace-Wells, David
Paper Book
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * "The Uninhabitable Earth hits you like a comet, with an overflow of insanely lyrical prose about our pending Armageddon."--Andrew Solomon, author of The Noonday Demon NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY...
Losing Earth : a recent history
Rich, Nathaniel
Paper Book
By 1979, we knew nearly everything we understand today about climate change--including how to stop it. Over the next decade, a handful of scientists, politicians, and strategists, led by two unlikely heroes, risked their careers in a desperate, escalating campaign to convince the world to act...
Don't even think about it : why our brains are wired to ignore climate change
Marshall, George (Environmentalist)
Paper Book
An Esquire Essential Book on Climate Change From the founder of the Climate Outreach and Information Network, a groundbreaking take on the most urgent question of our time: Why, despite overwhelming scientific evidence, do we still ignore climate change? ...
Are we smart enough to know how smart animals are?
Waal, F. B. M. de
Paper Book
A New York Times Bestseller From world-renowned biologist and primatologist Frans de Waal, a groundbreaking work on animal intelligence destined to become a classic. What separates your mind from an animal's? Maybe you think it's your ability to design tools, your...
Salvage the bones : a novel
Ward, Jesmyn.
Paper Book
Winner of the National Book AwardThe National Book Award winning novel from the author of Let Us Descend and Men We Reaped--a gritty but tender story of family and poverty in the days leading up to Hurricane Katrina.A hurricane is building over the Gulf of Mexico,...
Where the water goes : life and death along the Colorado River
Owen, David
Paper Book
The Colorado River is a crucial resource for a surprisingly large part of the United States, and every gallon that flows down it is owned or claimed by someone. David Owen traces all that water from the Colorado's headwaters to its parched terminus, once a verdant wetland but now a million-acre...
Merchants of doubt : how a handful of scientists obscured the truth on issues from tobacco smoke to global warming
Oreskes, Naomi.
Paper Book
The U.S. scientific community has long led the world in research on such areas as public health, environmental science, and issues affecting quality of life. Our scientists have produced landmark studies on the dangers of DDT, tobacco smoke, acid rain, and global warming. But at the same time, a...
My friend Earth
MacLachlan, Patricia
Paper Book
Beloved author Patricia MacLachlan has created a poetic text that lovingly shows just how good a friend Earth is to all of us. Spectacularly illustrated by rising star Francesca Sanna, the bold colours and die-cut pages throughout invite both the very youngest readers and the most sophisticated book...
Go green!
Gogerly, Liz
Paper Book
This colourful and positive book explains why it's good to 'go green'! It's Anjali's birthday party and the children have had a great time. But looking around the room at the end, they see mountains of rubbish, from food waste to wrapping paper, burst balloons and small...
Mama Miti : Wangari Maathai and the trees of Kenya
Napoli, Donna Jo
Paper Book
An NAACP Image Award Nominee "In a word, stunning." --Kirkus Reviews (starred review) The inspiring true story of environmental activist Mama Miti comes to vivid life in this nonfiction picture book featuring illustrations by Kadir Nelson, winner of...
How to change everything : the young human's guide to protecting the planet and each other
Klein, Naomi
Paper Book
"[A] uniquely inclusive perspective that will inspire conviction, passion, and action." --Kirkus Reviews (starred review) An empowering, engaging young readers guide to understanding and battling climate change from the expert and bestselling author of This Changes...
Saving ourselves : from climate shocks to climate action
Fisher, Dana
Paper Book
We've known for decades that climate change is an existential crisis. For just as long, we've seen the complete failure of our institutions to rise to the challenge. Governments have struggled to meet even modest goals. Fossil fuel interests maintain a stranglehold on political and economic power....
Saving us : a climate scientist's case for hope and healing in a divided world
Hayhoe, Katharine
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER "An optimistic view on why collective action is still possible--and how it can be realized." --The New York Times "As far as heroic characters go, I'm not sure you could do better than Katharine Hayhoe." --Scientific...
Imaginary borders
Martinez, Xiuhtezcatl
Paper Book
"It won't take you long to read this book, but it will linger in your heart and head for quite a while, and perhaps inspire you to join in the creative, blossoming movement to make this world work." -- Bill McKibben, environmentalist, New York Times bestselling author of The End of Nature,...
Before it's gone : stories from the front lines of climate change in small-town America
Vigliotti, Jonathan
Paper Book
This "stunning call to action to save ourselves and all life on the planet" (Booklist), in the vein of This Changes Everything and Saving Us, effortlessly demonstrates how climate change is affecting America right now. Discussion of the climate crisis...
The parrot and the igloo : climate and the science of denial
Lipsky, David
Paper Book
In 1956, the New York Times prophesied that once global warming really kicked in, we could see parrots in the Antarctic. In 2010, when science deniers had control of the climate story, Senator James Inhofe and his family built an igloo on the Washington Mall and plunked a sign on top: AL GORE...
Hope dies last : visionary people across the world, fighting to find us a future
Weisman, Alan
Paper Book
One of Heatmap's 18 Climate Books to Read in 2025 The award-winning environmental journalist's extraordinary, long-awaited portrait of hope and resilience as we face a fractured and uncertain future In this profoundly human and moving narrative, the...

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