Mark Lynas Wins Royal Society Prize for Science Writing

Mark Lynas' Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet is almost certain to experience a jump in sales after winning the coveted Royal Society Prize for Popular Science Writing, and the £10,000 prize money that comes with the accolade. The book explains how Earth will change for every degree rise in temperature, from droughts to mass extinctions.

Previous winners have included Bill Bryson, Stephen J Gould, Roger Penrose, and Stephen Hawking.