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Gaia Vince Books

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Gaia Vince is a British science journalist, broadcaster, and author. She has written for publications such as Nature, New Scientist, and The Guardian, and her work focuses on the intersection of science, environment, and society.

Known for: Adventures in the Anthropocene: A Journey to the Heart of the Planet We Made, Nomad Century: How Climate Migration Will Reshape Our World

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Humanity as a Geological Force

We often imagine geological forces as enormous, slow, and impersonal: continents drifting, mountains rising, volcanoes exploding. Yet today, Homo sapiens has joined that geologic chorus. Our cities rival coral reefs in scale, our mines tunnel deeper than rivers carve, and our fertilizers alter the n...

From Adventures in the Anthropocene: A Journey to the Heart of the Planet We Made

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Lives on the Edge: The Himalayas and Bangladesh

In the Himalayas, the sight of disappearing glaciers is both majestic and terrifying. For centuries, the mountain ice acted as a natural reservoir, releasing water through the seasons. Now, as glaciers retreat at unprecedented rates, communities downstream face uncertainty: floods when too much melt...

From Adventures in the Anthropocene: A Journey to the Heart of the Planet We Made

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The Climate Crisis

Climate change is reshaping the habitable zones of the planet. According to the data I explore in *Nomad Century*, areas near the equator are rapidly approaching conditions that threaten human endurance. Heatwaves exceeding 40°C for weeks on end, collapsing crop yields, and seawater intrusion into f...

From Nomad Century: How Climate Migration Will Reshape Our World

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The Coming Migration

In the book, I trace plausible patterns of human movement across continents. We will see large-scale outflows from the tropics and low-lying coasts toward cooler zones—northern Europe, Canada, Siberia, and the Southern Cone of South America. Imagine entire agricultural systems uprooted and reformatt...

From Nomad Century: How Climate Migration Will Reshape Our World

About Gaia Vince

Gaia Vince is a British science journalist, broadcaster, and author. She has written for publications such as Nature, New Scientist, and The Guardian, and her work focuses on the intersection of science, environment, and society. Vince won the Royal Society Science Book Prize for her previous book, ...

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Gaia Vince is a British science journalist, broadcaster, and author. She has written for publications such as Nature, New Scientist, and The Guardian, and her work focuses on the intersection of science, environment, and society. Vince won the Royal Society Science Book Prize for her previous book, Adventures in the Anthropocene.

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Gaia Vince is a British science journalist, broadcaster, and author. She has written for publications such as Nature, New Scientist, and The Guardian, and her work focuses on the intersection of science, environment, and society.

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