Pollution and threats to the environment

Today, approximately two billion children breathe toxic air at levels exceeding standards set by the World Health Organization, causing immediate and long-term physical and mental health effects.

The Sunday Times BestsellerA new, fully updated narrative edition of David Attenborough's seminal biography of our world, The Living Planet.

Scientists around the world rise up for climate and ecological justice In April 2022, hundreds of scientists rose incivil disobedience, breaking the law in more than twenty-eightcountries.

FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER, THE HIDDEN LIFE OF TREES'A simultaneously stimulating and soothing blend of nature writing and science .

This book addresses the issue of climate change in Latin America from an intersectional perspective, making women visible as agents of change.

This book addresses the issue of climate change in Latin America from an intersectional perspective, making women visible as agents of change.

This book provides an interdisciplinary framework for understanding the complex interactions between the Earth's systems, with particular emphasis on sustainability, hazard management, and resource conservation.

A groundbreaking investigation into the propaganda justifying the fossil-fuel economy, The Language of Climate Politics offers readers powerful new ways to talk about the climate crisis that will help create transformative change.

This book provides an interdisciplinary framework for understanding the complex interactions between the Earth's systems, with particular emphasis on sustainability, hazard management, and resource conservation.

A groundbreaking investigation into the propaganda justifying the fossil-fuel economy, The Language of Climate Politics offers readers powerful new ways to talk about the climate crisis that will help create transformative change.

For billions of years, microbes have produced and consumed greenhouse gases that regulate global temperature and in turn other aspects of our climate.

For billions of years, microbes have produced and consumed greenhouse gases that regulate global temperature and in turn other aspects of our climate.

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.

'Wicked Problems' are those problems facing the planet and its inhabitants, present and future, which are hard (if not impossible) to resolve and for which bold, creative, and messy solutions are typically required.

While the heavy social impacts of raging wildfires, punishing storms, and climbing temperatures worldwide have made many increasingly aware of the need for climate justice, the intersection of race and climate change has too often been neglected in the literature and in practice.

While the heavy social impacts of raging wildfires, punishing storms, and climbing temperatures worldwide have made many increasingly aware of the need for climate justice, the intersection of race and climate change has too often been neglected in the literature and in practice.

Nearly everyone accepts as gospel two assumptions: compliance with environmental rules is high, and enforcement is responsible for making compliance happen.

The most recent scientific reporting suggests that the outlook for continued global warming is dire.

Could the race to de-carbonize our energy systems be leading us closer to environmental disaster?

Could the race to de-carbonize our energy systems be leading us closer to environmental disaster?

A compelling and persuasive look at the social transformations needed to cope with our environmental crises.

A number of well-known forests have been the object of studies by ecological teams.

Increasing amounts of various types of wastes and pollutants including nutrients enter the coastal waters via rivers, direct discharges from land drainage systems, diffuse land runoff, dumping and via the atmosphere.

The idea for this book arose in 1993, after the Free State of Bavaria through its Bayrisches Staatsministerium rur Landesentwicklung und Umweltfragen (Bavarian Ministry of Regional Development and the Environment) decided to discontinue both the Bavarian project management (PBWU) for forest decline research and the multidisciplinary field research on the Wank Mountain in the Alps near Garmisch.

Designed for undergraduate courses that cover climate change politics within environmental studies, politics, and international relations courses, Climate Change, Science, and The Politics of Shared Sacrifice integrates science and policy within each chapter by considering technical issues as well as their political implications.

Environmentally, our planet lacks the laws to keep it safe and those laws we do have are feebly enforced.

Marine sediments provide the largest habitat on planet earth, yet knowledge of the structure and function of their flora and fauna continues to be poorly described in current textbooks.

In 2020, COVID-19, the Australia bushfires, and other global threats served as vivid reminders that human and nonhuman fates are increasingly linked.

In 2020, COVID-19, the Australia bushfires, and other global threats served as vivid reminders that human and nonhuman fates are increasingly linked.

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.

'Wicked Problems' are those problems facing the planet and its inhabitants, present and future, which are hard (if not impossible) to resolve and for which bold, creative, and messy solutions are typically required.

A novel exploration of the deeper political, economic, and geopolitical history behind Germany's daring campaign to restructure its energy system around green power.

A novel exploration of the deeper political, economic, and geopolitical history behind Germany's daring campaign to restructure its energy system around green power.

This edited collection is a treasure trove of interdisciplinary case studies that presents and discusses the latest ideas, trends, and challenges in water science.

This edited collection is a treasure trove of interdisciplinary case studies that presents and discusses the latest ideas, trends, and challenges in water science.

This book provides a comprehensive synthesis of technology-critical elements (TCEs) as emerging metallic pollutants in aquatic environments.

From the acclaimed author of Beasts of a Little Land and Reese's Book Club pick City of Night Birds, an exquisite story collection about humans in precarious balance with the natural world.

Capitalism, Climate Change, and the Food System in Latin America illustrates the relationship between climate change politics and food systems through a critical international political economy perspective.

Placing vernacular knowledge at the forefront of climate-responsive design, this book deals with the UN's SDG 11 mandate for inclusive, safe, and resilient cities.

Through a critical discussion of political ideologies, Political Ideologies and the Anthropocene Crisis seeks to extricate the values of contending traditions - freedom, equality, justice, community, tradition, welfare, family, happiness, sustainability, peace, regeneration of nature etc.

Caught on camera prior to their demise, this book reveals the surprisingly rich photographic record of now-extinct animals.

Through a critical discussion of political ideologies, Political Ideologies and the Anthropocene Crisis seeks to extricate the values of contending traditions - freedom, equality, justice, community, tradition, welfare, family, happiness, sustainability, peace, regeneration of nature etc.

Placing vernacular knowledge at the forefront of climate-responsive design, this book deals with the UN's SDG 11 mandate for inclusive, safe, and resilient cities.

This book provides a comprehensive synthesis of technology-critical elements (TCEs) as emerging metallic pollutants in aquatic environments.

Caught on camera prior to their demise, this book reveals the surprisingly rich photographic record of now-extinct animals.

This volume reframes narratives on just transition and explores how impact assessment modes can be deployed for just transition ends.

This volume reframes narratives on just transition and explores how impact assessment modes can be deployed for just transition ends.

Capitalism, Climate Change, and the Food System in Latin America illustrates the relationship between climate change politics and food systems through a critical international political economy perspective.