"Originally published in Great Britain by Granta Books in 2021"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Pt.1. Weather makers -- 1. Trees are cool : Stomata, Transpiration and a planet transformed -- 2. Flying rivers : Chasing the rain and mapping a new hydrology -- 3. Forests' breath : Sniffing the air and shooting the breeze -- 4. In tanguro : tipping points in soybean fields foreshadow crisis in the Amazon -- 5. Fires in the forest : Nature's way of starting over -- Pt.2. From paradise to plunder -- 6. Lost worlds : Pre-Columbian cities that gardened the rainforests -- 7. The woodchopper's ball : Post-Columbian pillage and roads to ruin -- 8. Logged out : Well, almost...three decades in Borneo -- 9. Consuming the forests : Logs of war and a new "green" plunder -- 10. No-man's-land : Cattle kingdoms and the tyranny of global commodities -- 11. Taking stock : Phantom forests and debunking forest demonology -- Pt.3. Rewilding -- 12. From "stumps and ashes" : America's forest renaissance -- 13. The strange regreening of Europe : Acid rain to a new green deal -- 14. Forest Transition : How more and more nations are restoring their forests -- 15. To plant or not to plant : When trees become part of the problem -- 16. Let them grow : Only nature can plant a trillion trees -- 17. Agroforests : Farmers as part of the solution -- Pt.4. Forest commons -- 18. Indigenous defenders : Why tribes do conservation better than conservationists -- 19. Community forests : A triumph of the commons -- 20. African landscapes : Taking back control.

Issued also in electronic format.