In this collection of adventure stories and restored period photos, authors Paul Andrew Mayewski and Michael Cope Morrison tell their personal experiences going to some of the Earth's most remote and challenging places, the scientific ...
This is the story of her biggest challenge yet: a whirlwind journey around the world with conservative powerbroker and arch climate sceptic Nick Minchin.
"Landscapes and cycles demonstrates why landscape change, far more than the levels of carbon dioxide, deserve our full attention"--Page 4 of cover.
27 The debate began with Moses I. Finley, “Technical Progress and Economic Growth in the Ancient World,” EconHistR ... On the recently emerging new perspec- tives, see Peter F. Bang, The Imperial Bazaar: A Comparative Study of Trade and ...
Weighing the potential of some solutions and the false promises of others, this groundbreaking work provides a realistic, balanced view of the magnitude of the crisis that An Inconvenient Truth only touched on.
From the desolate Arctic to the lush green Mekong Delta, go on a journey around the world to explore different cultures and climate change impact from a personal and local perspective.
What is the jet stream and how well do we understand it? How does it affect our weather and is it changing? These are the main questions tackled in this book.
In the fall of 2013, during the height of California’s historic drought, Baumgart toured the remote military base, NAWS China Lake, near Death Valley, California.
"Professor What-If" shares his insight in an extraordinary blend of facts, poems, riddles and rhymes, revealing the core issues of climate change.
Gertner chronicles the unfathomable hardships, amazing discoveries, and scientific achievements of the Arctic’s explorers and researchers with a transporting, deeply intelligent style—and a keen sense of what this work means for the ...
Like no other book, The End of Ice offers a firsthand chronicle—including photographs throughout of Jamail on his journey across the world—of the catastrophic reality of our situation and the incalculable necessity of relishing this ...