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(0)Elizabeth Kolbert
Author
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Over the last half billion years, there have been five major mass extinctions, when the diversity of life on Earth suddenly and dramatically contracted. Scientists are currently monitoring the sixth extinction, predicted to be the most devastating since the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs. This time around the cataclysm is us. In this book the author tells us why and how human beings have altered life on the planet in a way no species...
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
234 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
So pervasive are human impacts on the planet that it's said we live in a new geological epoch: the Anthropocene. Kolbert takes a hard look at the new world we are creating. One way to look at human civilization, she says, is as a ten-thousand-year exercise in defying nature. He she explores the ways in which our capacity for destruction has reshaped the natural world. From the Mojave to Iceland and Australia, she examines how the very sorts of interventions...
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Formats
Description
New Yorker writer Kolbert tackles the controversial subject of global warming. Americans have been warned since the late 1970s that the buildup of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere threatens to melt the polar ice sheets and irreversibly change our climate. With little done since then to alter this dangerous course, the world has reached a critical threshold. By the end of the century, the world will likely be hotter than it's been in the last two million...
Author
Publisher
Ten Speed Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
159 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In 26 connected essays, Elizabeth Kolbert takes us on an illustrated journey through the landscape of climate change and the stories we tell ourselves about the future"--
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
xvi, 541 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A classic collection of the New Yorker's most urgent and groundbreaking reporting from the front lines of the climate emergency. In 1989, just one year after climatologist James Hansen first came before a Senate committee and testified that the earth was now warmer than it had ever been in recorded history, thanks to humankind's heedless consumption of fossil fuels, New Yorker writer Bill McKibben published a deeply reported and considered piece...
Author
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
397 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
Joel Sartore's quest to photograph all the animal species under human care celebrates its 15th year with this glorious and heartwrenching collection of photographs. The animals featured in these pages are either destined for extinction or already extinct in the wild but still alive today, thanks to dedication of a heroic group committed to their continued survival. From the majestic Sumatran rhinoceros to the tiny Salt Creek tiger beetle, Sartore's...
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
2 volumes in 1 : maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
A literary anthology explores the natural wonders of the frozen landscapes of the Arctic and Antarctic in a compilation of first-person narratives, cultural histories, science and nature writing, and fiction.
Publisher
Bullfrog Films
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (127 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"... director Josh Fox (Gasland) continues in his deeply personal style, investigating climate change-- the greatest threat our world has ever known. Traveling to 12 countries on 6 continents, the film acknowledges that it may be too late to stop some of the worst consequences and asks, what is it that climate change can't destroy? What is so deep within us that no calamity can take it away?"--Container.