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Human induced climate change, overuse of natural resources, overwhelming amount of waste and pollution, gender inequality, elevated stress levels, flood of fake news. All these have a lot to do with our controversial human nature and how our race has formed, besides making our life more difficult and less sustainable.
You are to see the controversial process of how we began to become the only highly intelligent species, how widespread is our impact...
122) Climate Crossroads
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Embark on an eye-opening journey with 'Climate Crossroads,' your essential guide to understanding the pressing issues of climate change and embracing sustainable living. This engaging book takes you to the very heart of our environmental challenges and equips you with the knowledge and strategies to make a positive impact on our world.Delve into the Earth's remarkable history in 'A Journey Through Earth's Past' to grasp how our climate has evolved...
123) Lady Gaia Speaks
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What does the planet think?
Lady Gaia is an organism made up of every living thing, from prions and viruses to blue whales and red sequoias, and in this imaginative tour de force of a polemic against human-made global warming and habitat destruction, Patricia Finney gets the views of the world we should love, on our prospects for survival, departure into space — or replacement.
There are other species that could become dominant, if our planet turns...
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Are you overwhelmed by the conflicting information and passionate debates surrounding climate change? Does the urgency in climate discourse leave you feeling anxious and concerned? Do you wish you had a clearer understanding of the science that underpins this global issue?
If you answered 'yes' to any of these questions, then this book is your essential guide.
This isn't a manifesto pushing a political agenda. Instead, it aims to arm you with straightforward...
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This book provides the most comprehensive briefing or tutorial on the global-warming or climate-change situation available in any one place today because it covers not only the scientific and technical side of this issue but also the human, economic and political sides. It describes global warming and humanity's response to it from a multidisciplinary systems viewpoint, where the total system is comprised of Earth's natural systems interacting with...
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Stories of restlessness, disruption, conflagrations, faraday tents, mythmakers, bubble-worlds, local nomads, transformation, resilience and the power of the exponential.
The VISIONS 2100 Project was launched at the COP21 conference in Paris in 2015.
In the first instalment, Stories from your Future, the 80 contributors told of their hopes and fears for the long term. This took away the practicalities of today and considered what they really wanted....
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Climate change represents an increasing threat to the continued development of the people, preservation of ecosystems, and economic growth of Asia and the Pacific. Mainstreaming climate risk management in all aspects of development is thus key to an effective transition to climate-resilient development pathways. ADB's climate risk management framework aims to reduce risks resulting from climate change to investment projects in Asia and the Pacific....
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Afin de comprendre et de prévoir les répercussions des changements climatiques sur la biodiversité du Québec, des climatologues, biologistes, naturalistes et gestionnaires de la biodiversité ont analysé près de 1 000 espèces d'animaux et de plantes terrestres. Cet ouvrage présente les résultats de leur recherche faisant appel aux approches scientifiques les plus perfectionnées ainsi qu'aux modèles climatiques et aux données sur la biodiversité...
129) The Lost Tide
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A team of scientists must fight to save two continents from the most devastating natural disaster in the history of mankind
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Describes how global warming has made the Arctic's oil, gas, natural resources, and minerals more accessible and how competition between nations and corporate interests for control of the resources is endangering the Arctic's fragile ecosystems. --Publisher's description.
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279 pages ; 21 cm
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"When climate activist Greta Thunberg was eleven, her parents, Malena and Svante, and her little sister, Beata, were facing a crisis in their own home. Greta had stopped eating and speaking, and her mother and father had reconfigured their lives to care for her. Desperate and searching for answers, her parents discovered what was at the heart of Greta's distress: her imperiled future on a rapidly heating planet. Steered by Greta's determination to...
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1 videodisc (approximately 123 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 DVD-ROM (digital ; 4 3/4 in.)
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When global warming triggers the onset of a new Ice Age, tornadoes flatten Los Angeles, a tidal wave engulfs New York City and the entire Northern Hemisphere begins to freeze solid. Now, climatologist Jack Hall, his son Sam, and a small band of survivors must ride out the growing superstorm and stay alive in the face of an enemy more powerful and relentless than anything anyone has ever encountered: Mother Nature.
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x, 322 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
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"As new groundbreaking research suggests that climate change played a major role in the most extreme catastrophes in the planet's history, award-winning science journalist Peter Brannen takes us on a wild ride through the planet's five mass extinctions and, in the process, offers us a glimpse of our increasingly dangerous future."--
"A vivid tour of Earth's Big Five mass extinctions, the past worlds lost with each, and what they all can tell us about...
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208 pages ; 21 cm
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"Hope Jahren is an award-winning geobiologist, a brilliant writer, and one of the seven billion people with whom we share this earth. The Story of More is her impassioned open letter to humanity as we stand at the crossroads of survival and extinction. Jahren celebrates the long history of our enterprising spirit -- which has tamed wild crops, cured diseases, and sent us to the moon -- but also shows how that spirit has created excesses that are quickly...
136) Maximum Ride: 7
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209 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm
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Fang's blog highlights ITEX and their research, causing them to shut down, while Max goes to Antarctica to study the effects of global warming.
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47 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm.
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"Planet Earth is warming, causing climates to change. People and other living things experience these changes through the weather. In [this book], learn how weather happens and how global warming is changing it -- including global warming's effects on extreme weather." -- Back cover.
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