Climate Disaster

In this urgent, authoritative book, Bill Gates sets out a wide-ranging, practical--and accessible--plan for how the world can get to zero greenhouse gas emissions in time to avoid a climate catastrophe. Bill Gates has spent a decade investigating the causes and effects of climate change. With...

This urgent and eye-opening book makes the case that protecting humanity's future is the central challenge of our time. If all goes well, human history is just beginning. Our species could survive for billions of years - enough time to end disease, poverty, and injustice, and to flourish in ways unimaginable today. But this vast future is at risk. With the advent of nuclear weapons, humanity entered a new age, where we face existential catastrophes - those from which we could never come back.

Narrated by the author: Experience the Southern California wildfires through Jacob Soboroff’s eyes—and voice. New York Times Bestseller and #1 Los Angeles Times Bestseller A "gripping, unshakeable firsthand account" (San Francisco Chronicle) of the firestorm that consumed Los Angeles, from...

New York Times Bestseller From Neal Stephenson—who coined the term “metaverse” in his 1992 novel Snow Crash—comes a sweeping, prescient new thriller that transports readers to a near-future world in which the greenhouse effect has inexorably resulted in a whirling-dervish troposphere of...

CBS News correspondent Jonathan Vigliotti’s searing firsthand account of the 2025 Los Angeles wildfires, the failures that fueled the catastrophe, and the high-stakes battle over how the city will rebuild ahead of the 2028 Olympic Games. In Torched, Vigliotti brings readers inside the inferno...

World leaders have made a forceful statement that climate change is the greatest challenge facing humanity in the twenty-first century. However, little progress has been made in implementing policies to address climate change. In Climate Uncertainty and Risk, eminent climate scientist Judith Curry shows how we can break this gridlock.

The last ice age didn’t disappear. It only slept. And now, it’s waking up. When an early October snowstorm blankets northern Wisconsin, most residents shrug it off as a seasonal anomaly. But former Army paratrooper Daniel Reicher senses something far more dangerous brewing beneath the cold. Temperatures freefall, lakes freeze overnight, and the snow—unnervingly—never melts. Then a suppressed NOAA report leaks: the Gulf Stream is slowing. The same oceanic collapse that triggered ancient Ice Age catastrophes is happening again—only this time, millions are in the path. As the Midwest...

Forty thousand people traveled to the Thunder Mesa valley for the ultimate desert experience. They expected three days of massive crowds, pulsating energy, and incredible memories. They did not expect the sky to tear open. When an unprecedented weather system breaches the canyon walls, the isolated paradise instantly becomes a claustrophobic death trap. The main stage collapses under tearing winds. The few access roads completely choke with panicked crowds. There is no shelter and nowhere to run. Ray Calder thought he was just working security for another chaotic weekend. Now he is leading ...

When a catastrophic electromagnetic pulse (EMP) strikes Earth, modern life ends in an instant. Power grids fail. Communication collapses. Transportation halts. Within hours, the world descends into chaos—and the fragile threads of civilization begin to snap. What follows is a rapid descent into apocalyptic turmoil as society unravels and survival becomes a daily battle. When the world falls apart, it's not the heroes who rise—it's the unexpected.

Shortlisted for the FT/McKinsey Business Book of the Year award A renowned climate scientist shows how fossil fuel companies have waged a thirty-year campaign to deflect blame and responsibility and delay action on climate change, and offers a battle plan for how we can save the planet. Recycle...

Brought to you by Penguin. Bill Gates has spent a decade investigating the causes and effects of climate change. With the help of experts in the fields of physics, chemistry, biology, engineering, political science, and finance, he has focused on what must be done in order to stop the planet's...

As new groundbreaking research suggests that climate change played a major role in the most extreme catastrophes in the planet's history, award-winning science journalist Peter Brannen takes us on a wild ride through the planet's five mass extinctions and, in the process, offers us a glimpse of...

What if the most powerful weapon in history wasn’t a sword, a cannon, or a bomb… …but the weather? Most history books will tell you who won and who lost. Almost none will tell you why. And the answer is often hiding in plain sight—in the fog, the storms, the freezing cold, and the scorching heat that arrived uninvited and rewrote the outcome of some of the most famous battles ever fought. That’s exactly what this book uncovers. Fog of War: The Deadly Mists, Blinding Storms, and Freak Weather Events That Decided History’s Most Famous Battles reveals the invisible force no general...

How carbon dioxide made planet Earth, shaped human history, and now holds our future in the balance Every year, we are dangerously warping the climate by putting gigantic amounts of carbon dioxide into the air. But CO2 isn’t merely the by-product of burning fossil fuels—it is also...

The world is clean. The world is dead. The EcoMites were humanity's greatest achievement—microscopic machines that dissolved pollution, purified water, and healed our dying planet. Then their definition of "pollution" changed. Now they consume everything organic. Everything alive. Everything except one man and his sanctuary. Dr. Joseph Kellerman is the last man on Earth, surviving alone at Alaska's Aurora Station while generators fail one by one. Outside his protective bubble, the air shimmers with invisible death. Inside, he talks to ghosts—his dead wife, his lost colleagues—as his ...

A STORM LIKE THIS DOESN'T WARN YOU. IT HUNTS YOU. Nora Vasquez was just trying to drive south to Wichita. But when an unprecedented supercell stalls directly over a remote Kansas crossroads, she and ten strangers find themselves trapped in a meteorological nightmare. This is not a system they can wait out. It is a siege. Pounded by thousands of continuous electrical discharges, the local gas station and a roadside diner are quickly transformed from safe havens into lethal traps. Height attracts the current. The rising floodwaters act as a conductor. And with a jackknifed fuel tanker ...

They thought they’d uncovered the truth, but the storms have only just begun. After barely surviving the rogue tornadoes tearing through the plains, storm chaser Beck Maddox and atmospheric scientist Savannah Reyes are determined to expose the weaponized weather conspiracy brewing behind the scenes, but the deeper they dig, the more dangerous the skies become—and someone is making sure the truth stays buried. Each new storm isn’t just stronger, it’s smarter, and it’s targeting the people asking questions. With their allies disappearing and time running out, Beck and Savannah must ...

An energizing case for hope about the climate comes from Rebecca Solnit, called “the voice of the resistance” by the New York Times, and climate activist Thelma Young Lutunatabua, along with a chorus of voices calling on us to rise to the moment. Not Too Late is the book for anyone who is despondent, defeatist, or unsure about climate change and seeking answers. As the contributors to this volume make clear, the future will be decided by whether we act in the present—and we must act to counter institutional inertia, fossil fuel interests, and political obduracy. T

The storms have changed. So have the rules. After months of chasing patterns no one else believed in, Beck Maddox and Savannah Reyes find themselves pushed beyond prediction and into survival. What began as an investigation has become something far more dangerous—where trust is scarce, motives are hidden, and every decision carries consequences that can’t be undone. The weather no longer behaves the way it should. Neither do the people watching it. As pressure builds and the skies grow unpredictable, Beck and Savannah are forced to confront a truth neither of them is ready for: some ...

THE STORM IS ONLY THE BEGINNING. Wildlife Officer Mac Tanner knows the Everglades backcountry better than his own name. He’s walked every marl corridor and navigated every peat zone in the sector. So when a Category 3 hurricane begins its slow, violent crawl toward the Florida coast, Mac doesn't evacuate. He stays behind to ensure a stubborn old Cajun friend survives the night. But as the eyewall passes, Mac discovers something the storm was meant to hide: a floatplane corridor freshly cut into the sawgrass. In the eerie stillness of the eye, five men in tactical gear emerge from the ...