More than a warning, Earth under Fire is the most complete illustrated guide to the effects of climate change now available. It offers an upbeat and intelligent account of how we can lessen the effects of our near-total dependence on fossil fuels using technologies and energy sources already available. A thorough revision and a new preface for the paperback edition bring the compelling facts about climate change up to date.

Gary Braasch is an Ansel Adams Award-winning photojournalist and a fellow of the International League of Conservation Photographers. He is the author of Photographing the Patterns of Nature.

“Striking images. . . . Valuable.”—Photo District News

“Gary has made a name for himself as a high-profile environmental photojournalist, producing innumerable stunning images that document both the beauty and the plight of the planet. . . . [Braasch] highlights just what photographers can do to combat the unwelcome changes occurring in our world.”—Digital Photographer

“The award-winning photojournalist has added nearly 100 factual revisions and text additions, updating the book to the election of President Barack Obama. Braasch uses his breathtaking photographs to give a fresh and insightful take on climate change.”—Outdoor Photographer

“If you like your global catastrophes in lovely pictures, this is the book for you. . . . Braasch digs remarkably deep into the current changes in the earth brought on by anthropogenic climate change. Rising water, disappearing ice, changing habits of the checkerspot butterfly (among other species) are all chronicled in this readable and beautifully photographed and illustrated effort.”—Natural Hazards Observer

"The power of Gary Braasch's personal witness to the climate crisis makes this essential reading for every citizen."—Al Gore

"This may be the most deeply researched photo book of all time."—Vanity Fair

"Braasch brings together startling and breathtaking imagery with personal accounts and the best available scientific evidence."—Nature

"The pictures are truly eye-opening. . . . We may not truly believe what we've done to the planet until we actually see the results for ourselves."—The Ecologist

"Truly rich and beautiful. . . . An excellent publication!"—R. K. Pachauri, Chairman, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and corecipient of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize

"The power of Gary Braasch's personal witness to the climate crisis makes this essential reading for every citizen."—Al Gore

“Earth under Fire is an important work documenting climate change. With an accessible text and startling photographs, it takes the reader on a world tour of the human effect on our climate.”—Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

"Braasch's descriptions and photographs of how climate change is unraveling ecosystems and human lives make real and vivid what for too many remains speculative and abstract. Each deeply researched story—the rising suicide rate in a melting Inuit village, fields of European butterflies killed by a false spring, coastal houses falling into the sea in North Carolina—becomes a memorable character in a rapidly unfolding drama that threatens to engulf us all."—Amory B. Lovins, Rocky Mountain Institute

"There are scant books equal to the task of spelling out the greatest challenge in human history-global climate change. Rarer still is an author who can both write and photograph it, seamlessly marrying text and images. Earth under Fire is that rare book."—Paul Hawken, author of Blessed Unrest and The Ecology of Commerce

"This is a well-written description of the effects of human-driven climate change on our all-too-vulnerable planet. The pictures give a marvelously direct account of what is happening almost before our eyes."—Sir Crispin Tickell, former British Ambassador to the United Nations

"Global warming has found its Baedeker in Gary Braasch. Braasch has traveled all over our changing world and recorded in word and photograph what's going on. We all need to see what he saw, and Earth under Fire does a beautiful job of that."—James Gustave Speth, author of Red Sky at Morning: America and the Crisis of the Global Environment