A new issue of Electronic Green Journal is out. A review of Natural Experiments of History, ed. Jared Diamond and James A. Robinson. More on The Environment and World History. A review of James Lovelock: In Search of Gaia by John Gribbin and Mary Gribbin, The Balance of Nature: Ecology’s Enduring Myth by John Kricher, and The Medea Hypothesis: Is Life on Earth Ultimately Self-Destructive? by Peter Ward. A review of Seasick: Ocean Change and the Extinction of Life on Earth by Alanna Mitchell. Network Theory: Carl Zimmer on a key to unraveling how nature works. In praise of mundane nature: The unsung nature in alleyways and backyards plays an important — and undervalued — role in urban lives. You think fall foliage viewing is just about finding a tree and staring at it? Wrong. In The Life & Love of Trees

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