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Environment

Through his work, Charles Darwin showed how all life on earth is interconnected, and that even the humblest worm is worthy of respect.

Organisations working to protect the natural environment include:

ARKive

Earthwatch Institute

Friends of the Earth

Galapagos Conservation Trust

Greenpeace

Wildlife Trusts

The Woodland Trust

Staff from CREATE in Bristol discuss the book in the Ecohome garden.

Staff from CREATE in Bristol discuss the book in the Ecohome garden.


Books on climate change and other issues threatening the natural environment include:

Carson, Rachel Silent Spring Penguin 1999 revised edition

Dow, Kirsten and Downing, Thomas The Atlas of Climate Change Earthscan 2007

Fagan, Brian The Long Summer: how climate changed civilisation Granta 2004

Girling, Richard Sea Change: Britain's coastal catastrophe Eden Project Books

Gore, Al An Inconvenient Truth Bloomsbury Publishing 2006

Henson, Robert The Rough Guide to Climate Change Rough Guides Reference Titles 2006

Houghton, John Global Warming: the complete briefing CUP 2009 revised edition

Lovelock, James The Revenge of Gaia: why the earth is fighting back – and how we can still save humanity Penguin 2009

Lynas, Mark Six Degrees: our future on a hotter planet Harper Perennial 2008

Monbiot, George Heat: how to stop the planet burning up Allen Lane 2006





 
Children
Books on the environment for children that have been recommended by the Royal Society in recent years include Andrew Langley KFK Natural Disasters (Kingfisher) and David Burnie Endangered Planet (Kingfisher).

Barry the blue-tongued skink made a visit to St Austell Library where they were reading The Lost World.

Barry the blue-tongued skink made a visit to St Austell Library where they were reading The Lost World.

Dinosaur display in a South Gloucestershire library.

Dinosaur display in a South Gloucestershire library.



Dinosaur footprints