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Language
English
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Jane Goodall and Douglas Abrams explore through intimate and thought-provoking dialogue one of the most sought after and least understood elements of human nature: hope. Drawing on decades of work that has helped expand our understanding of what it means to be human and what we all need to do to help build a better world, the book touches on vital questions, including: How do we stay hopeful when everything seems hopeless? How do we cultivate hope...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
ix, 247 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"A book for middle-school-aged children about previous extinctions and possible threats to humans, from volcanoes, to asteroids, to pollution and diseases"--
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
viii, 324 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
After speaking to the international public for close to fifteen years about sustainability, climate scientist Dr. Nicholas realized that concerned people were getting the wrong message about the climate crisis. Yes, companies and governments are hugely responsible for the mess we're in. But individuals CAN effect real, significant, and lasting change to solve this problem. Nicholas explores finding purpose in a warming world, combining her scientific...
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
xvi, 541 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
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"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...
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Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
xi, 321 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Best known today for The Weather Makers, his #1 international bestseller, Tim Flannery is one of the world's most influential scientists, a foremost expert on climate change credited with discovering more species than Charles Darwin. But Flannery didn't come to his knowledge overnight. With its selection of exhilarating essays and articles written over the past 25 years, An Explorer's Notebook charts the evolution of a young scientist doing fieldwork...
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Publisher
Atria Books, an imprint of SImon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
Revised and expanded second edition.
Physical Desc
224 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"This vivid, terrifying, and galvanizing novel reveals our future world after previous generations failed to halt climate change-perfect for fans of The Drowned World and World War Z. 2084: Global warming has proven worse than even the direst predictions scientists had made at the turn of the century. No country-and no one-has remained unscathed. Through interviews with scientists, political leaders, and citizens around the globe, this riveting oral...
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
335 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
An eye-opening and vital account of the future of our earth and our civilization if current rates of global warming persist, by the highly acclaimed author of 'High Tide'.
Picture yourself a few decades from now, in a world in which average temperatures are three degrees higher than they are now. On the edge of Greenland, rivers ten times the size of the Amazon are gushing off the ice sheet into the north Atlantic. Displaced victims of North Africa's...
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
xiv, 195 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Can we predict cataclysmic disasters such as earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, or stock market crashes? The Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004 claimed more than 200,000 lives. Hurricane Katrina killed over 1,800 people and devastated the city of New Orleans. The recent global financial crisis has cost corporations and ordinary people around the world billions of dollars. Megadisasters is a book that asks why catastrophes such as these catch us by surprise,...
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
339 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
For twenty years, Mark Hertsgaard investigated climate change, but it took the birth of his daughter to bring the truth home. Another revelation came when an expert advised that, without doubt, global warming had arrived, more than a hundred years earlier than expected. Now, with his daughter and the next generation in mind, Hertsgaard delivers a resounding, motivating message of hope that will spur activism among parents, college students, and all...
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Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
xxv, 695 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (some color) ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Global warming is one of the greatest dangers mankind faces today. Even as temperatures increase, sea levels rise, and natural disasters escalate, our current environmental crisis feels difficult to predict and understand. But climate change and its effects on us are not new. In a bold narrative that spans centuries and continents, Peter Frankopan argues that nature has always played a fundamental role in the writing of history. From the fall of...
16) Human planet
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (400 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Humans are the ultimate animals - the most successful species on the planet. Uniquely in the animal kingdom, humans have managed to adapt and thrive in every environment on Earth. Each episode examines one of the extremes of our planet: the Arctic, mountains, oceans, jungles, grasslands, deserts, rivers, and even the urban jungle. Each habitat engenders astonishing solutions in the face of extreme adversity. Here are people who survive by building...
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
320 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The effects of climate change on our brains are a public health crisis that has gone largely unreported. Based on six years of research, award-winning journalist and trained neuroscientist Clayton Page Aldern synthesizes the emerging neuroscience, psychology, and behavioral economics of climate change and brain health. A masterpiece of deeply reported, superb literary journalism, this book shows readers how a changing environment is changing us,...
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
xvii, 282 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
From the 10th to the 15th centuries the earth experienced a rise in surface temperature that changed climate worldwide--a preview of today's global warming. In some areas, including Western Europe, longer summers brought bountiful harvests and population growth that led to cultural flowering. In the Arctic, Inuit and Norse sailors made cultural connections across thousands of miles as they traded precious iron goods. Polynesian sailors, riding new...