

WINNER, American Meteorological Society's Louis J. Battan Authors' Award WINNER, 2019 Science Writers & Communicators of Canada Book Award WINNER, 2018 Lane Anderson Award "With wit and a humbling sense of wonder, this is a book that...

We live at the bottom of an ocean of air - 5,200 million million tons, to be exact. It sounds like a lot, but Earth's atmosphere is smeared onto its surface in an alarmingly thin layer - 99 percent contained within 18 miles. Yet, within this fragile margin lies a magnificent...