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- The story of more : how we got to climate change and where to go from here / by Jahren, Hope,author.;
Includes bibliographical references."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 warming our planet to dangerous levels. In short, highly readable chapters, she takes us through the science behind the key inventions--from electric power to large-scale farming and automobiles--that, even as they help us, release untenable amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. She explains the current and projected consequences of greenhouse gases--from superstorms to rising sea levels--and shares the science-based tools that could help us fight back. At once an explainer on the mechanisms of warming and a capsule history of human development, The Story of More illuminates the link between our consumption habits and our endangered earth. It is the essential pocket primer on climate change that will leave an indelible impact on everyone who reads it."--- Subjects: Global warming.; Greenhouse gases; Climatic changes.; Technological innovations.; Consumption (Economics); Civilization, Modern;
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- The world without us / by Weisman, Alan;
Includes bibliographical references and index.- Subjects: Ecology; Environmental degradation; Human-animal relationships; Human-plant relationships; Material culture.; Nature;
- © c2007., HarperCollins,
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- The climate change garden : down to Earth advice for growing a resilient garden / by Morgan, Sally,1957-author.; Stoddart, Kim,author.;
The long-predicted extremes of weather caused by climate change are now on our doorstep and gardens around the world are suffering. No matter where on the planet you live, the climate and weather patterns are changing fast, and our gardening practices need to catch up. This book reveals which plants are better suited to deal with extremes and which techniques, practices, and equipment can help temper the issues. This is a global gardener's guide to successful growing beneath the shadow of a changing climate.- Subjects: Gardening; Gardening.; Gardens; Gardens; Plants, Flowering of; Sustainable horticulture.; Vegetation and climate.;
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- What doesn't kill us : how freezing water, extreme altitude, and environmental conditioning will renew our lost evolutionary strength / by Carney, Scott,1978-author.; Hof, Wim,writer of foreword.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-229) and index.- Subjects: Adaptation (Biology); Biological fitness.; Extreme environments; Mind and body.;
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- Yellowstone. by Firth, Peter,actor.; BBC Studios (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Peter FirthOriginally produced by BBC Studios in 2009.Yellowstone National Park is one of the world's last and most spectacular wildernesses. It is also home to some of the richest wildlife beyond the plains of Africa. This landmark series follows the intertwining stories of Yellowstone's iconic inhabitants: the grey wolf, the grizzly bear and the herds of antelope and buffalo. In a land of beauty and peril, the dramatic lives and fortunes of these animals are inexorably bound together.Mode of access: World Wide Web.- Subjects: Documentary films.; Science.; Biology.; Zoology.; Environmental sciences.; Documentary films.; Television series.; Motion pictures.; United States.; Nature.; Documentary television programs.;
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- Ants in your pants, worms in your plants! : (Gilbert goes green) / by De Groat, Diane.;
Gilbert seems to be the only one in his class who cannot think of any ideas for an Earth Day project.- Subjects: Gilbert (Fictitious character : De Groat); Creative ability; Earth Day; Environmental protection; Opossums; Schools;
- © c2011., Harper,
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- American values : lessons I learned from my family / by Kennedy, Robert Francis,1954-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.- Subjects: Biographies.; Kennedy, Robert Francis, 1954-; Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968; Kennedy family.; Environmental lawyers; Environmentalists;
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- All that is solid melts into air / by McKeon, Darragh,1979-;
Includes bibliographical references.A story about the lives of everyday ordinary people in Ukraine trying to survive after Chornobyl as the Soviet Union struggles to deal with a disaster of this proportion.LSC- Subjects: Chernobyl Nuclear Accident, Chornobylʹ, Ukraine, 1986; Nuclear accidents; Environmental disasters;
- © c2014., HarperCollins,
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- The People's Republic of Mallacoota. by Jackson, Tony,film director.; Australian Broadcasting Corporation (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Originally produced by Australian Broadcasting Corporation in 2022.This compelling, character-led series follows an ensemble cast of resolute, charismatic, and forthright citizens of a bushfire-ravaged community as they fight to rebuild their lives, rehabilitate their environment, and re-invent their community. And they’re in a race against a time to make sure the horrors of the last bushfire season never happen again.Mode of access: World Wide Web.- Subjects: Documentary films.; Science.; Australians.; Foreign study.; Environmental sciences.; Documentary films.; Television series.; Motion pictures.;
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- Under a white sky : the nature of the future / by Kolbert, Elizabeth,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sixth Extinction returns to humanity's transformative impact on the environment, now asking: After doing so much damage, can we change nature, this time to save it? That man should have dominion "over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth" is a prophecy that has hardened into fact. So pervasive are human impacts on the planet that it's said we live in a new geological epoch: the Anthropocene. In Under a White Sky, Elizabeth Kolbert takes a hard look at the new world we are creating. She meets scientists who are trying to preserve the world's rarest fish, which lives in a single, tiny pool in the middle of the Mojave. She visits a lava field in Iceland, where engineers are turning carbon emissions to stone; an aquarium in Australia, where researchers are trying to develop "super coral" that can survive on a hotter globe; and a lab at Harvard, where physicists are contemplating shooting tiny diamonds into the stratosphere in order to reflect sunlight back to space and cool the earth. One way to look at human civilization, says Kolbert, is as a ten-thousand-year exercise in defying nature. In The Sixth Extinction, she explored the ways in which our capacity for destruction has reshaped the natural world. Now she examines how the very sorts of interventions that have imperiled our planet are increasingly seen as the only hope for its salvation. By turns inspiring, terrifying, and darkly comic, Under a White Sky is an utterly original examination of the challenges we face"--- Subjects: Ecological engineering.; Environmental protection.; Human ecology.; Nature; Sustainability.;
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