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Extreme conservation : life at the edges of the world /

Joel Berger, Author | Chicago : The University of Chicago Press | 2018

On the Tibetan Plateau, there are wild yaks with blood cells thinner than those of horses' by half, enabling the endangered yaks to survive at 40 below zero and in the lowest oxygen levels of the mountaintops. But climate change is causing the s[...]

Living in the anthropocene : earth in the age of humans

John W. Kress, Author ; Jeffrey K. Stine, Author | Washington, DC : Smithsonian Institution Books | 2018

Although we arrived only recently in Earth's timeline, humans are driving major changes to the planet's ecosystems. Even now, the basic requirements for human life--air, water, shelter, food, nature, and culture--are rapidly transforming the pla[...]

The sixth extinction : an unnatural history /

Elizabeth Kolbert, Author | New York : Henry Holt and Co. | 2014

Over the last half billion years, there have been five major mass extinctions, when the diversity of life on Earth suddenly and dramatically contracted. Scientists are currently monitoring the sixth extinction, predicted to be the most devas[...]

The Goldilocks planet : the four billion year story of Earth's climate /

Mark Williams, Author ; J. A. Zalasiewicz, Author | Oxford : Oxford University Press | 2012

Presents a history of climate to reveal that the climatic changes happening hardly compare to the changes the Earth has seen over the last 4.5 billion years.

In the empire of ice : encounters in a changing landscape

Gretel Ehrlich, Author | [S.l.] : National Geographic Society | 2010

Discusses the peoples of the high Arctic, their traditions, and the changes they face in the modern world and from global warming, in a book that looks at languages, hunting traditions, and religious practices.

Fixing the sky : the checkered history of weather and climate control /

James Rodger Fleming, Author | new York : Columbia University Press | 2010

The Earth after us : what legacy will humans leave in the rocks?

Jan Zalasiewicz, Author | Oxford : Oxford University Press | 2009

What would alien visitors of the far future, piecing together the history of Earth, find of our brief reign? What clues will we leave? WHat fossils? Just as we have gained knowledge of the past, of ancient climates and the activities of creature[...]

Humanity's footprint : momentum, impact, and our global environment

Walter Kennedy Dodds | new York : Columbia University Press | 2008

Comet/ateroid impacts and human society : an interdisciplinary approach

Peter T. Bobrowsky ; Hans Rickman | New York, NY : Springer | 2007

Gaia’s revenge : climate change and humanity’s loss

P. H. Liotta ; Allan W. Shearer | Santa Barbara, CA : Praeger | Politics and the environment, 1932-3484 | 2007

The world without us

Alan Weisman | [S.l.] : Thomas Dunne Books | 2007

Planet Earth : the future : environmentalists and biologists, commentators and natural philosophers in conversation with Fergus Beeley, Mary Colwell and Joanne Stevens.

Fergus Beeley ; Mary Colwell ; Joanne Stevens | [S.l.] : BBC Books | 2006

The global carbon cycle : integrating humans, climate, and the natural world

Christopher B. Field ; Michael R. Raupach | [S.l.] : Island Press | SCOPE | 2004

Stability of life on earth : principal subject of scientific research in the 21st century

K. IA. Kondrat’ev ; et al. | New York, NY : Springer | Springer-Praxis books in environmental sciences | 2004

Global-regional linkages in the earth system

Peter Tyson ..., Editor | New York, NY : Springer | Global change--the IGBP series | 2002

This book synthesizes current knowledge of regional-global linkages in four regions to demonstrate that study of environmental change on a regional scale can enhance understanding of global-scale environmental changes.