When the Forest Breathes Suzanne Simard Knopf (2026)
Forest ecologist Suzanne Simard founded the federally funded Mother Tree Project in British Columbia, Canada, in 2015. Since then, Simard and her team, working alongside local Indigenous groups, have planted 225,000 trees across a region roughly the size of Denmark. The project spans British Columbia’s rugged interior and the lush temperate rainforests of its western coast. In When the Forest Breathes, Simard explores the effects of clear-cut logging on forest carbon storage and biodiversity while examining innovative, more sustainable approaches to forest conservation and restoration.
Unconscious Antonio Melechi MIT Press (2026)
Any history of the unconscious must contend with centuries of disagreement over what the concept means. “In the rubric of the concept of the ‘unconscious,’ we find a treasure trove of confusion and debate,” writes Antonio Melechi, a historian of medicine and psychology. His wide-ranging study draws on texts from Hippocrates, Charles Darwin, Sigmund Freud and other influential thinkers. The book offers a detailed look at how ideas about the unconscious have evolved, although it notably leaves out biophysicist Francis Crick’s work on consciousness and his 1994 book The Astonishing Hypothesis.
Dark Frontier Jeffrey Marlowe Random House (2026)
The deep ocean begins roughly 200 metres below the surface, where sunlight can no longer penetrate, and accounts for more than 95% of Earth’s habitable volume. Biologist Jeffrey Marlowe notes that researchers have mapped and studied less than 0.001% of the deep-ocean floor, with even less known about the water column above it. In this compelling exploration of deep-sea science, Marlowe examines the ocean’s essential role in sustaining a habitable planet and supporting human civilization. He also considers how pollution and other human impacts have damaged marine ecosystems, often before their importance was fully understood.
Artificially Yours Valerie Tiberius Princeton University Press (2026)
Source: www.nature.com