Listen to the scientists. That's the refrain of climate activist Greta Thunberg. Climate scientists explain how warming caused by human activity is setting in motion Earth's own natural warming mechanisms, releasing greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, and further warming the planet.

"Wylodine comes from a world of paranoia and poverty; her family grows marijuana illegally, and life has always been a battle. Now she's been left behind to tend the crop alone. Then spring doesn't return for the second year in a row, bringing unprecedented, extreme winter. With grow lights stashed in her truck and a pouch of precious seeds, she begins a journey, determined to start over away from Appalachian Ohio. But the icy roads and strangers...

Inspired by Swedish teenage environmental activist Greta Thunberg, this volume sets out the basic ideas required to understand climate change, explained in a scientific and accessible way and drawn from authoritative sources. TODOS SOMOS GRETA, Y SOLO NOSOTROS PODEMOS SALVAR EL PLANETA. ¿Qué es el cambio climático? ¿Lo hemos causado nosotros? ¿Cuáles son sus consecuencias? ¿Estamos a tiempo de solucionarlo? Con solo 16 años, Greta no solo...

The fossil fuel industry's history of casting doubt and delaying action on climate change.

"Tipping Point for Planet Earth explains why Earth is headed for a tipping point, a change so fast, dramatic, and unexpected that humanity will reel at the consequences. Midway through this century, there will be more than nine billion people on the planet. Already we are using most of the arable land that exists and overfishing the oceans. Water, too, is becoming scarce in many places. The services that humans depend upon--like a supply of clean...

"Over the course of a decade, the renowned photographer Camille Seaman traveled yearly to the Arctic and Antarctic aboard scientific and expeditionary ships, witnessing firsthand the hidden, ghostly, and incredibly beautiful mountains of ice that exist at the antipodes of our globe. Approaching each iceberg and glacier as a portraitist would a living subject, Seaman's photographs contain a sense of scope, intimacy, and sustained wonder that transport...

Cold and isolated, yet home to some 4 million people; harsh and unyielding, yet disintegrating with every passing year, the Arctic defies definition. In the modern mind it represents the quintessentially timeless; its landscape imagined both as a realm of crystalline purity and as a frozen kingdom of dread and death. A unique ecosystem that hosts such beloved creatures as the polar bear and the narwhal and serves as the homeland for some of the world's...

Over his long career as witness to an extreme twentieth century, National Book Award-winning psychiatrist, historian, and public intellectual Robert Jay Lifton has grappled with the profound effects of nuclear war, terrorism, and genocide. Now he shifts to climate change, which, Lifton writes, "presents us with what may be the most demanding and unique psychological task ever required of humankind," what he describes as the task of mobilizing our...

Told in alternating voices, twelve-year-old Sami, from a village along the Bay of Bengal, and fourteen-year-old Yuki, from Northern Canada, strive to protect their homes from the encroaching damage brought on by climate change.