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1) A river runs again: India's natural world in crisis, from the barren cliffs of Rajasthan to the farmlands of Karnataka

Author

Subramanian, Meera

Publisher

PublicAffairs

Pub. Date

2015.

Language

English

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"In this lyrical and intimate tapestry of five stories dealing with life, loss, and survival in modern-day India, Meera Subramanian travels in search of the ordinary people and micro-enterprises redeeming India's natural world. An engineer-turned-farmer brings organic food to Indian plates. Villagers revive a dead river. Well-intentioned cook stove designers persist on a quest for a smokeless fire. Biologists bring vultures back from the brink of...

2) The world as we knew it: dispatches from a changing climate

Publisher

Catapult

Pub. Date

[2022]

Language

English

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Sizzling Summer Reads 2022

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Including essays by Lydia Millet, Alexandra Kleeman, Omar El Akkad and others, this collection from literary writers around the world offer timely, haunting first-person reflections on how climate change has altered their lives.