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The illustrated world encyclopedia of marine fish & sea creatures : a natural history and identification guide to the animal life of the deep oceans, open seas, reefs, shallow waters, saltwater estuaries, and shorelines of the world / by Beer, Amy-Jane; Hall, Derek,1930-;
Subjects: Marine animals; Marine fishes; Reefs; Marine biology;
© c2007., Lorenz Books,

Firestorm : The Great Los Angeles Fires and America's New Age of Disaster. by Soboroff, Jacob.;
From the MSNBC Senior National and Political Correspondent Jacob Soboroff comes a gripping account of the devastating 2025 Los Angeles fires, which he covered on the ground as an LA native. From the author of 'Separated', which was adapted into an acclaimed film by Academy Award-winner Errol Morris.Library Bound Incorporated
Subjects: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Editors, Journalists, Publishers; HISTORY / Modern / 21st Century; HISTORY / United States / 21st Century; HISTORY / United States / State & Local / West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY); NATURE / Natural Disasters; POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / State; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Affairs & Administration;

Great Rift: Africa's Wild Heart. by Quarshie, Hugh,actor.; BBC Studios (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Hugh QuarshieOriginally produced by BBC Studios in 2010.Africa's Great Rift Valley runs four thousand miles from the Red Sea to the mouth of the Zambezi - a diverse landscape of erupting volcanoes, forest-clad mountains, spectacular valleys, rich grasslands and mighty rivers. Home to the greatest concentration of animals on Earth - lions, crocodiles, elephants, hippos and flocks of flamingos - and pastoralists such as the Maasai - this is a land in constant geological turmoil. Great Rift takes you to another world - a world of exotic extremes, where the forces of nature have shaped the landscape and so created a hotbed of evolution.Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subjects: Documentary films.; Science.; Agriculture.; Zoology.; Environmental sciences.; Documentary films.; Television series.; Motion pictures.; History.; Africa.; Nature.; Earth sciences.; Documentary television programs.;

Urban jungle : the history and future of nature in the city / by Wilson, Ben,1980-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."In this exhilarating look at cities, past and future, Ben Wilson proposes that, in our world of rising seas and threatening weather, the natural world may prove the city's savior. Since the beginning of civilization, humans have built cities to wall nature out, then glorified it in beloved but quite artificial parks. In Urban Jungle, Ben Wilson--the author of Metropolis, a seven-thousand-year history of cities that the Wall Street Journal called "a towering achievement"--looks to the fraught relationship between nature and the city for clues to how the planet can survive in an age of climate crisis. Whether it was the market farmers of Paris, Germans in medieval forest cities, or the Aztecs in the floating city of Tenochtitlan, pre-modern humans had an essential bond with nature. But when the day came that water was piped in and food flown from distant fields, that relationship was lost. Today, urban areas are the fastest-growing habitat on Earth and in Urban Jungle Ben Wilson finds that we are at last acknowledging that human engineering is not enough to protect us from extremes of weather. He takes us to places where efforts to rewild the city are under way: to Los Angeles, where the city's concrete river will run blue again, to New York City, where a bleak landfill will be a vast grassland preserve. The pinnacle of this strategy will be Amsterdam: a city that is its own ecosystem, that makes no waste and produces its own energy. In many cities, Wilson finds, nature is already thriving. Koalas are settling in Brisbane, wild boar may raid your picnic in Berlin. Green canopies, wildflowers, wildlife: the things that will help cities survive, he notes, also make people happy. Urban Jungle offers the pleasures of history--how backyard gardens spread exotic species all over the world, how war produces biodiversity--alongside a fantastic vision of the lush green cities of our future. Climate change, Ben Wilson believes, is only the latest chapter in the dramatic human story of nature and the city"--
Subjects: Climatic changes.; Urban ecology (Biology); Urban ecology (Sociology);

Earth : the biography / by Stewart, Iain.; Lynch, John; National Geographic Channel (Television station : Washington, D.C); National Geographic Society (U.S.);
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Earth movements; Earth sciences; Geophysics; Nature; Oceanography; Earth;
© 2008., National Geographic,

Mice / by Tait, Leia.;
Includes bibliographical references (p. 23) and index.Explores the physicl characterisitcs, natural habitat, history and folklore of mice.
Subjects: Mice;
© 2010., Weigl,

Lynx / by Wiseman, Blaine.;
Explores the physical characteristics, natural habitat, history and folklore of lynxes.
Subjects: Lynx (Genus);
© 2011., AV2 by Weigl,

Sparrows / by Webster, Christine;
Includes bibliographical references (p. 23) and index.Describes the physical characteristics, natural habitats, history, and folklore of sparrows.
Subjects: Sparrows;
© 2008., Weigl,

Ravens / by Webster, Christine.;
Includes bibliographical references (p. 23) and index.Explores the physical characteristics, natural habitat, history, and folklore of the raven.
Subjects: Ravens;
© 2010., Weigl,

Mosquitoes / by Webster, Christine.;
Includes bibliographical references (p. 23) and index.Explores the physical characteristics, natural habitat, history, and folklore of the mosquito.
Subjects: Mosquitoes;
© 2010., Weigl,

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