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Eye of the Albatross takes us soaring to locales where whales, sea turtles, penguins, and shearwaters flourish in their own quotidian rhythms. Carl Safina's guide and inspiration is an albatross he calls Amelia, whose life and far-flung flights he describes in fascinating detail. Interwoven with recollections of whalers and famous explorers, Eye of the Albatross probes the unmistakable environmental impact of the encounters between man and marine...
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Located at the confluence of the Congaree and Wateree Rivers in central South Carolina, Congaree National Park protects the nation's largest intact expanse of old-growth bottomland hardwood forest. Modern visitors to the park enjoy a pristine landscape that seems ancient and untouched by human hands, but in truth its history is far different. In Nature's Return, Mark Kinzer examines the successive waves of inhabitants, visitors, and landowners of...
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A gripping account of the environmental crusade to save the world's most endangered species and landscapes-the last best hope for preserving our natural home.
Scientists worldwide are warning of the looming extinction of thousands of species, from tigers and polar bears to rare flowers, birds, and insects. If the destruction continues, a third of all plants and animals could disappear by 2050-and with them earth's life-support ecosystems that provide...
84) Taming the Flood
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In recent years, the Somerset Levels suffered from the worst flooding in over twenty years. Inevitably, the residents asked for more drainage, more dredging and more money. Flooding in the area has been an issue since it was a marshland, but is more drainage and more dredging the answer?
Exploring the old arguments and new solutions raised over the last 400 years, this completely updated edition of the classic Taming the Flood reveals how harnessing...
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In an innovative fusion of labor and environmental history, Making a Living examines work as a central part of Americans' evolving relationship with nature, revealing the unexpected connections between the fight for workers' rights and the rise of the modern environmental movement.Chad Montrie offers six case studies: textile "mill girls" in antebellum New England, plantation slaves and newly freed sharecroppers in the Mississippi Delta, homesteading...
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With its thirty-three essays, This Impermanent Earth charts the course of the American literary response to the twentieth century's accumulation of environmental deprivations. Arranged chronologically from 1974 to the present, the works have been called from The Georgia Review, long considered an important venue for nonfiction among literary magazines published in the United States.
The essays range in subject matter from twentieth-century examples...
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China's rise is assaulting the natural world at an alarming rate. In a few short years, China has become the planet's largest market for endangered wildlife, its top importer of tropical trees, and its biggest emitter of greenhouse gases. Its rapid economic growth has driven up the world's very metabolism: in Brazil, farmers clear large swaths of the Amazon to plant soybeans; Indian poachers hunt tigers and elephants to feed Chinese demand; in the...
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Discover practical solutions to safeguard our planet and pave the way for a sustainable future with 'Sustainability Solutions.' In this empowering guide, you'll explore the pressing environmental issues threatening our world, from climate change and biodiversity loss to pollution and resource depletion. Uncover the vital role individuals play in creating positive change and learn how to reduce your carbon footprint, conserve precious resources, and...
89) Garden Birds
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Gardens make a significant contribution to the amount of urban green space and are the main contributors to urban biodiversity. Birds are one of the most visible components of this urban biodiversity, and many of us enjoy attracting wild birds into our gardens. This timely addition to the New Naturalist Library examines the ways in which birds use gardens, revealing the many new discoveries that are being made and explaining why individual species...
90) Futurecide
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Every civilization in history has faced moments of overwhelming existential crises, and they all eventually collapsed. Was this failure inherent in the evolution of civilization, something within the human species, or a combination of both? More importantly, was it predictable and unavoidable? Most civilizations believed they had a special relationship with the divine and were beyond the laws of nature. Our current economic civilization is now global...
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Remote island ecosystems, scattered like gems across the world's oceans, harbor unparalleled natural beauty and ecological significance. However, these isolated paradises are under imminent threat due to the accelerating impacts of climate change, including rising sea levels and extreme weather events. As pristine island habitats struggle for survival, the urgent need for conservation and restoration has become increasingly clear. Innovative solutions...
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Drawing on six case studies of wolf, grizzly bear, and mountain lion conservation in habitats stretching from the Yukon to Arizona, Large Carnivore Conservation argues that conserving and coexisting with large carnivores is as much a problem of people and governanceof reconciling diverse and sometimes conflicting values, perspectives, and organizations, and of effective decision making in the public sphereas it is a problem of animal ecology and behavior....
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Have you ever wondered what fascinating creatures inhabit our planet? "Wonders, Oddities, and Surprising and Unusual Creatures of the Animal Kingdom." invites you to explore the amazing world of rare and curious animals that defy our expectations and expand our understanding of biological diversity.From insects with amazing abilities to marine mammals with extraordinary behaviors, this book will take you on an exciting journey through the most peculiar...
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This is the first book of its kind to present sustainable eating with a failsafe 30-way recipe plan for readers to follow and cook from. Based on the simple principle that local ingredients equal the lowest possible carbon footprint, Ollie Hunter endeavours to eat sustainable, desirable and delicious food. Organised into four main chapters: Zero Waste, Organic and Seasonal, 50% of Produce within 30 Miles and What is Sustainability? the straightforward...
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How does sound ecology-an acoustic connective tissue among communities-also become a basis for a healthy economy and a just community?
Jeff Todd Titon's lived experiences shed light on the power of song, the ecology of musical cultures, and even cultural sustainability and resilience. In Toward a Sound Ecology, Titon's collected essays address his growing concerns with people making music, holistic ecological approaches to music, and sacred transformations...
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A vivid and illuminating portrayal of the surprising ways that climate change will affect the world in the near future-politically, economically, and culturally
While reporting just outside of Darfur, Stephan Faris discovered that climate change was at the root of that conflict, and began to wonder what current and impending-and largely unanticipated-crises such changes have in store for the world.
Forecast provides the answers.
Global warming...
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From the birds who wake us in the morning with their cheerful chorus to those who flock to our feeders and brighten a gloomy winter day, birds fascinate us with their lively and interesting behavior and provide essential services from controlling pest populations to pollinating crops. And yet for all the benefits they provide, many species across Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Iowa, Indiana, Michigan, and Ohio are in danger of extinction due to loss...
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Wildness beats in the heart of California's urban areas. In Los Angeles, residents are rallying to build one of the largest wildlife crossings in the world because of the plight of one lonely mountain lion named P-22. Porpoises cavort in San Francisco Bay again because of a grassroots effort to clean up a waterway that was once a toxic mess. And, on the Facebook campus in Silicon Valley, Mark Zuckerberg and his staff have provided a home for an endearing...
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Reveals how classic American novels embodied the tensions embedded in American views of the natural world from the Centennial until the end of the Second World War.
Reconciling Nature maps the complex views of the environment that are evident in celebrated American novels written between the Centennial Celebration of 1876 and the end of the Second World War. During this period, which includes the Progressive era and the New Deal, Americans held three...
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La bombilla, durante mucho tiempo símbolo del progreso, debe apagarse. Es necesario abrazar la oscuridad para asegurar un futuro brillante.
¿Cuánta luz es demasiada? La flora y la fauna del mundo han evolucionado para operar en el ciclo natural del día y la noche. Sin embargo, la iluminación permanente ha hecho que la contaminación lumínica sea un grave problema. Desde el espacio, nuestro planeta brilla intensamente 24 horas al día, los 7...
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