{"id":265511,"date":"2024-11-28T18:53:20","date_gmt":"2024-11-28T18:53:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/28\/the-best-popular-science-books-of-2024-from-nuclear-war-to-the-future-of-our-oceans\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:10:19","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:10:19","slug":"the-best-popular-science-books-of-2024-from-nuclear-war-to-the-future-of-our-oceans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/28\/the-best-popular-science-books-of-2024-from-nuclear-war-to-the-future-of-our-oceans\/","title":{"rendered":"The best popular science books of 2024, from nuclear war to the future of our oceans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<figure class=\"ArticleImage\">\n<div class=\"Image__Wrapper\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"Image\" width=\"1350\" height=\"899\" alt=\"New South Wales, Australia\" src=\"https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/22100704\/SEI_230150096.jpg\" sizes=\"(min-width: 1288px) 837px, (min-width: 1024px) calc(57.5vw + 55px), (min-width: 415px) calc(100vw - 40px), calc(70vw + 74px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/22100704\/SEI_230150096.jpg?width=300 300w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/22100704\/SEI_230150096.jpg?width=400 400w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/22100704\/SEI_230150096.jpg?width=500 500w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/22100704\/SEI_230150096.jpg?width=600 600w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/22100704\/SEI_230150096.jpg?width=700 700w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/22100704\/SEI_230150096.jpg?width=800 800w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/22100704\/SEI_230150096.jpg?width=837 837w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/22100704\/SEI_230150096.jpg?width=900 900w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/22100704\/SEI_230150096.jpg?width=1003 1003w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/22100704\/SEI_230150096.jpg?width=1100 1100w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/22100704\/SEI_230150096.jpg?width=1200 1200w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/22100704\/SEI_230150096.jpg?width=1300 1300w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/22100704\/SEI_230150096.jpg?width=1400 1400w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/22100704\/SEI_230150096.jpg?width=1500 1500w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/22100704\/SEI_230150096.jpg?width=1600 1600w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/22100704\/SEI_230150096.jpg?width=1674 1674w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/22100704\/SEI_230150096.jpg?width=1700 1700w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/22100704\/SEI_230150096.jpg?width=1800 1800w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/22100704\/SEI_230150096.jpg?width=1900 1900w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/22100704\/SEI_230150096.jpg?width=2006 2006w\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" data-image-context=\"Article\" data-image-id=\"2457593\" data-caption=\"Intense: Find a quiet spot and expand your mind with\u00a0these inspiring books\" data-credit=\"David Trood\/Getty Images\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"ArticleImageCaption\">\n<div class=\"ArticleImageCaption__CaptionWrapper\">\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Title\">Intense: Find a quiet spot and expand your mind with\u00a0these inspiring books<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Credit\">David Trood\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"image-text-widget\" data-title=\"\" data-img-src=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg26435190-300-the-best-new-popular-science-books-of-2024\/2024\/11\/22100649\/SEI_230301233.jpg\" data-text=\" \">\n<div class=\"image-text-widget__image-container\">\n<div class=\"Image__Wrapper\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"Image lazyload\" width=\"312\" height=\"468\" alt=\"New Scientist. Science news and long reads from expert journalists, covering developments in science, technology, health and the environment on the website and the magazine.\" sizes=\"(min-width: 1288px) 837px, (min-width: 1024px) calc(57.5vw + 55px), (min-width: 415px) calc(100vw - 40px), calc(70vw + 74px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/22100649\/SEI_230301233.jpg?width=300 300w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/22100649\/SEI_230301233.jpg?width=400 400w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/22100649\/SEI_230301233.jpg?width=500 500w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/22100649\/SEI_230301233.jpg?width=600 600w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/22100649\/SEI_230301233.jpg?width=700 700w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/22100649\/SEI_230301233.jpg?width=800 800w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/22100649\/SEI_230301233.jpg?width=837 837w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/22100649\/SEI_230301233.jpg?width=900 900w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/22100649\/SEI_230301233.jpg?width=1003 1003w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/22100649\/SEI_230301233.jpg?width=1100 1100w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/22100649\/SEI_230301233.jpg?width=1200 1200w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/22100649\/SEI_230301233.jpg?width=1300 1300w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/22100649\/SEI_230301233.jpg?width=1400 1400w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/22100649\/SEI_230301233.jpg?width=1500 1500w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/22100649\/SEI_230301233.jpg?width=1600 1600w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/22100649\/SEI_230301233.jpg?width=1674 1674w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/22100649\/SEI_230301233.jpg?width=1700 1700w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/22100649\/SEI_230301233.jpg?width=1800 1800w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/22100649\/SEI_230301233.jpg?width=1900 1900w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/22100649\/SEI_230301233.jpg?width=2006 2006w\" src=\"https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/22100649\/SEI_230301233.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" data-image-context=\"Article\" data-caption=\"\" data-credit=\"\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.penguin.co.uk\/books\/319429\/the-burning-earth-by-amrith-sunil\/9780241461983\"><i>The Burning Earth<\/i> by Sunil Amrith<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>This year hasn\u2019t been a great one for the environment, so a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg26335103-000-how-colonialism-and-industrialisation-fuelled-the-climate-crisis\/\">book<\/a> about the long history of environmental damage may be a hard sell. However, this isn\u2019t just a litany of woe. It unpicks the ways environmental harms have been driven by social systems and individual mentalities. In doing so, it points the way to a better society: one that no longer wages war on nature. <i>Michael Marshall<\/i><\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hachette.co.uk\/titles\/rebecca-boyle\/our-moon\/9781529342789\/\"><i>Our Moon<\/i> by Rebecca Boyle<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, I\u2026<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg26435190-300-the-best-new-popular-science-books-of-2024\/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&#038;utm_source=NSNS&#038;utm_medium=RSS&#038;utm_content=home\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Intense: Find a quiet spot and expand your mind with\u00a0these inspiring books David Trood\/Getty Images The Burning Earth by Sunil Amrith This year hasn\u2019t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":265512,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265511"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265511\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}