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Author
Publisher
Profile Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
255 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Description
Which species should get tickets for the ark? Our planet hasn't seen the current rate of extinction since the demise of the dinosaurs and global conservation efforts are failing to halt this. With limited resources available, we face tough choices about what to save. This timely book sets up a series of debates, pulling in case studies of plants and animals, from salmon vs seals to bees vs wasps to bison vs Siberian larch trees. There are many surprises....
Author
Publisher
Godwin Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
206 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
"Over the last half-billion years, there have been five mass extinctions, when the diversity of life on earth suddenly and dramatically contracted. Scientists around the world are monitoring the sixth extinction, predicted to be the most devastating extinction event since the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs. Adapting from her New York Times-bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning adult nonfiction, Elizabeth Kolbert explores the Anthropocene...
Publisher
A&E Television Networks
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (470 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
This series continues the exploration of a world wiped clean of humanity, using cinematic CGI to reveal, in scientific detail, the fate of the man-made world in the hours, days, months, and years after people disappear.
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