6/17/2023 0 Comments Nature physics scienceShe heads to Hawaii and Australia, where marine biologists are trying to engineer super corals that can withstand rising water temperatures to save reefs. She takes the reader to a canal near Chicago, where officials have electrified the water so damaging invasive carp don’t make their way up the waterway and into the Great Lakes. As Kolbert notes, humans have directly transformed more than half of the ice-free land on Earth, and indirectly transformed the other half-with many negative consequences in need of fixing. Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Kolbert investigates the wild ways scientists are solving complicated environmental problems in Under a White Sky. Under a White Sky:The Nature of the Future, by Elizabeth Kolbert With so many informative and entertaining works to choose from, it was hard to pick just ten, but these are the books that influenced our thinking the most in 2021. (We didn’t want to review it a second time here.) The books we have selected include dispatches from researchers on their scientific quests to search for an elusive physics equation and learn about the connections betwen trees and in-depth narratives from veteran science journalists exploring everything from solutions to major environmental problems to the benefits of sweat. Another important book that has bearing on how we fight disease, The Code Breaker, by Walter Isaacson, is instead listed among Smithsonian scholars’ picks of the best books of the year. One of those books, The Premonition, by Michael Lewis, is on this list. In 2021, with one year of the battle against the coronavirus behind us, several books came out related to the pandemic. NASA landed another rover on Mars, researchers discovered a new possible species of human, and scientists found ways climate change is influencing the evolution of animals-all topics that may lend themselves to future books. This year the news cycle was dominated again by stories about Covid-19, and rightly so, but other big discoveries were made throughout the sciences.
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