The Burning Earth: An Environmental History of the Last 500 Years

Winner of the 2025 Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Nonfiction
Longlisted for the 2025 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award

One of The New Yorker’s ＂Essential Reads＂ of 2024 - One of NPR’s ＂Books We Love＂ for 2024

＂[An] epic exploration of human innovation and destruction.＂ --Josie Glausiusz, Nature

A brilliant, paradigm-shifting global history of how humanity has reshaped the planet, and the planet has shaped human history, over the last 500 years.