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Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
xxv, 290 pages ; 21 cm
Description
A follow-up to Tales of Two Americas gathers contributions from some of today's most accomplished international writers to illustrate the cause-and-effect impact of the environmental crisis on some of today's most vulnerable communities.
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Publisher
CounterPunch
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
394 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Description
"The world as we know it is undergoing a sudden and violent transformation, unlike anything the planet has experienced since the Cretaceous Extinction. The evidence is all around us: vast droughts that last decades, super-storms and floods that destroy cities, dwindling aquifers, vanishing glaciers, toxic water supplies, raging wildfires, obscure new diseases, vanishing species and indigenous communities. Our planet is changing faster than evolution...
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Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
304 pages
Description
"In his three previous books-Feathers, The Triumph of Seeds, and Buzz-Thor Hanson has taken his readers on unforgettable journeys into nature, rendered with great storytelling, the soul of a poet, and the insight of a biologist. In this new book, he is doing it again, but exploring one of the most vital scientific and cultural issues of our time: climate change. As a young biologist, Hanson by his own admission watched with some detachment as our...
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Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
xviii, 329 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Description
From one of America's foremost experts on weather and climate change and a senior research scientist with Climate Central, comes this work, a book that predicts what different parts of the world will look like in the year 2050 if current levels of carbon emissions are maintained.
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Publisher
Henry Holt and Co
Pub. Date
2010, c2011
Physical Desc
401 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Description
A conservationist explores various global regions to investigate examples of environmental degradation and renewal while identifying a link between environmental dangers and human rights issues.
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Publisher
Columbia University Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
xvi, 159 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
"Facing Climate Change explains why people refuse to accept evidence of a warming planet and shows how to move past partisanship to reach a consensus for action. A climate scientist and licensed Jungian analyst, Jeffrey T. Kiehl examines the psychological phenomena that twist our relationship to the natural world and their role in shaping the cultural beliefs that distance us further from nature. He also accounts for the emotions triggered by the...
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Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
210 pages : maps ; 20 cm
Description
"In this cautionary but optimistic book, Figueres and Rivett-Carnac--the architects of the 2015 Paris Climate Change Agreement--tackle arguably the most urgent and consequential challenge humankind has ever faced: the world's changing climate and the fate of humanity. In The Future We Choose, the authors outline two possible scenarios for the planet. In one, they describe what life on Earth will be like by 2050 if we fail to meet the Paris targets...
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Publisher
Blue Dot Kids Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
66 pages : color illustrations ; 31 cm
Description
"This accessible guide for children details how humans have thrown the planet off-balance and ways we can work to create a healthier world. Encouraging and easily digestible, this illustrated nonfiction guide introduces children ages eight to twelve to the important topic of climate change with tips on "How You Can Help" and citizen scientist activities. Filled with engaging big ideas that will inspire children to think about their role in keeping...
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Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
xxii, 183 pages : illustrations, maps ; 18 cm.
Description
"This Very Short Introduction explains the science behind the Anthropocene and the many proposals about when to mark its beginning: The nuclear tests of the 1950s? The beginnings of agriculture? The origins of humans as a species? Erle Ellis considers the many ways that the Anthropocene's "evolving paradigm" is reshaping the sciences, stimulating the humanities, and foregrounding the politics of life on a planet transformed by humans. The Anthropocene...
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Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
xiii, 465 pages : illustrations, maps, charts ; 21 cm
Description
"A remarkable exploration of the science, history, and politics of the Anthropocene, one of the most important scientific ideas of our time, from two world-renowned experts. Meteorites, mega-volcanoes, and plate tectonics--the old forces of nature--have transformed Earth for millions of years. They are now joined by a new geological force--humans. Our actions have driven Earth into a new geological epoch, the Anthropocene. For the first time in our...
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Publisher
MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
x, 206 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
By 1979, we knew nearly everything we understand today about climate changeincluding how to stop it. Over the next decade, a handful of scientists, politicians, and strategists, led by two unlikely heroes, risked their careers in a desperate, escalating campaign to convince the world to act before it was too late. This is their story, and ours. It tells the human story of climate change in rich, intimate terms, revealing in previously unreported detail,...
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Publisher
Firefly Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
288 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 20 cm.
Description
A collection of 250 stunning images showing locations around the world as they were and as they are now, with captions explaining the often breathtaking changes that have occurred in just a short amount of time.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
400 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.
Description
A profile of the habitat and life cycle of the polar bear covers the species' venerated position in Inuit culture, its reproductive habits, and the environmental factors that are compromising its ability to survive.
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Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
400 pages
Description
"A prize-winning journalist upends our centuries-long assumptions about migration through science, history, and reporting--predicting its lifesaving power in the face of climate change. The news today is full of stories of dislocated people on the move. Wild species, too, are escaping warming seas and desiccated lands, creeping, swimming, and flying in a mass exodus from their past habitats. News media presents this scrambling of the planet's migration...
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