"These books and reports explore climate change through historical, scientific, social, and political lenses."

"This Yale Climate Connection bookshelf for Women’s History Month begins and ends, appropriately, with history.

“Economica” explores the history of women’s wealth and power, an examination then updated by two new reports on how climate change and the U.N.’s Sustainable Development Goals have affected women’s historical trajectory.

The list ends with a historical novel, in verse and for young adults, about the life of Eunice Newton Foote, the woman who first recognized that growing emissions of carbon dioxide, from the burning of fossil fuels, could warm the planet.  

In between are three books by women scientists about primatology, marine biology, and botany. Each tracks the incursion of climate change in its own way."

Michael Svoboda reports for Yale Climate Connections March 20, 2026. [2]