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Polar environments and global change

Roger G. Barry, Author ; Eileen A. Hall-McKim, Author | Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | 2019

"The Polar regions are the 'canary in the coal mine' of climate change: they are likely to be hit the hardest and fastest. This comprehensive textbook provides an accessible introduction to the scientific study of polar environments against a ba[...]

Drawdown : the most comprehensive plan ever proposed to reverse global warming /

Paul Hawken, Editor | [S.l.] : Penguin Books | 2017

In the face of widespread fear and apathy, an international coalition of researchers, professionals, and scientists have come together to offer a set of realistic and bold solutions to climate change. One hundred techniques and practices are des[...]

Star ark : a living, self-sustaining spaceship

Rachel Armstrong, Editor | New York, NY : Springer | Springer-Praxis books in space exploration | 2016

As space ventures have become more numerous, leading scientists and theorists have offered ways of building a living habitat in a hostile environment, taking an 'ecosystems' view of space colonization. The contributors to this volume take a rad[...]

Star ark : a living, self-sustaining spaceship

Rachel Armstrong, Editor | New York, NY : Springer | Springer-Praxis books in space exploration | 2016

As space ventures have become more numerous, leading scientists and theorists have offered ways of building a living habitat in a hostile environment, taking an 'ecosystems' view of space colonization. The contributors to this volume take a rad[...]

E-resource

Weird life : the search for life that is very, very different from our own /

David M. Toomey, Author | [S.l.] : W. W. Norton & Company | 2013

CO2 rising : the world's greatest environmental change

Tyler Volk | Cambridge, MA : The MIT Press | 2008

1. Introducing the CO2 molecule and its carbon atom -- 2. From a molecule in beer to the great cycle of carbon in the biosphere -- 3. The worldwide increase of CO2 -- 4. Fossil-fuel carbon atoms join the biosphere -- 5. Carbon's fluxes and its [...]

First ecology : ecological principles and environmental issues

Alan Beeby ; Anne-Maria Brennan | Oxford : Oxford University Press | 2008

Gaiome : Notes on ecology, space travel and becoming cosmic species

Kevin Scott Polk | [S.l.] : Gaiome.com | 2007

The book suggests that living beyond Earth challenges not just technology, but also our very identity and autonomy as a species. Consider Earth's frontiers. Millions of our fellow species made them habitable long before humans arrived. Not so i[...]

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

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

Spaceflight life support and biospherics

Peter Eckart | [S.l.] : Kluwer | Space technology library | 1996