Popular science books on genes, cells and life: eight for curious adults
Eight popular science books on genes, cells and life for adults, from The Selfish Gene to CRISPR and fungi, and which one to start with.
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Seven books about trees: forest science, two scientists' lives, a redwood canopy adventure, a prize-winning novel and a North American field guide.
Are GMOs good or bad? Three questions with three different answers
Are GMOs good or bad? Split it into food safety, effects in the field and who owns the seed, and the evidence gives three quite different answers.
The best food writing: eight books on how our food is grown, made and sold
The best food writing follows dinner back to field and factory. Eight food books on the industrial plate, growing and cooking, and the bigger picture.
How carbon credits work: from a project's tonne to a company's claim
How carbon credits work: compliance and voluntary markets, registries, additionality and permanence, plus a worked example of how a tonne gets counted.
Drones over the fields: spraying, mapping and the rules catching up
A season with a farm spray drone, step by step (licenses, drift, neighbors, data), and why the rules are still catching up with the machine.
Climate change books worth your time: the science, the fixes, the politics and two novels
Nine climate change books for general readers: the science and the stakes, the solutions, the politics of power, and two novels about what comes next.