Pollution and threats to the environment

This book addresses the climate change crisis through scientific, historical, and spiritual lenses.

This book describes the reasons humankind may be facing its last moments on Planet Earth.

An examination of shifting global power dynamics in climate change politics, and how this affects our ability to achieve equitable and sustainable climate outcomes.

How Latin American countries became leading voices and innovators on addressing climate change—and what threatens their leadership.

A philosopher and a scientist propose that sustainability can be understood as living well together without diminishing opportunity to live well in the future.

It is already clear that climate engineering raises numerous troubling ethical issues.

A radical new history of energy and humanity's insatiable need for resources that will change the way we talk about climate change *Winner of a Nouvel Observateur Award, a Fondation pour l' cologie politique Award, the Prix du jury Turgot and the Prix du S nat du livre d histoire 2025**Selected as an Economist and Financial Times Book of the Year*It has become habitual to think of our relationship with energy as one of transition: with wood superseded by coal, coal by oil, oil by nuclear and then at some future point all replaced by green sources.

It is already clear that climate engineering raises numerous troubling ethical issues.

The ethics of climate governance is of critical importance to current debates in climate justice, yet until now it has been largely neglected.

Das Kraftfahrzeug ist auf nahezu allen Ebenen von thermodynamischen Prozessen geprägt: Antriebssysteme – von Verbrennungsmotoren und Hybriden bis hin zu den Elektromotoren mit Brennstoffzellen – Aufladung, Kühl- und Heizkreisläufe, Klimaanlagen, Karosserie-Aerodynamik, Dämpfungssysteme, Einspritzsysteme, Auspuffanlagen, Bremsanlagen, Reifen.

It is the publicity about the Pollutant Release Inventory's data which creates an incentive for firms to achieve emission reductions.

Living in biofilms is the common way of life of microorganisms, transiently immobilized in their matrix of extracellular polymeric substances (EPS), interacting in many ways and using the matrix as an external digestion and protection system.

This book evolved from the 5th School of Environmental Research entitled Persistent Pollution - Past, Present and Future"e;, which has set a focus on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs), heavy metals and aerosols.

Die immer leistungsfähiger werdende Computertechnik hat in den letzten Jahrzehnten auch zu einer grandiosen Entwicklung der Strömungssimulation geführt.

This book, as the outcome of the COST-728/NetFAM workshop, focuses on the follow-ing main topics: 1) on-line coupled meteorology-chemistry modelling with two-way feedbacks, 2) off-line coupled modelling and interfaces, 3) validation and case studies including air quality related episodes, and 4) integration of atmospheric chemical transport (ACT) models with numerical weather prediction (NWP).

Unlike existing books of nuclear reactor physics, nuclear engineering and nuclear chemical engineering this book covers a complete description and evaluation of nuclear fission power generation.

Clothing is an inherent necessity for human beings.

Die Kenntnis der in einem Gewässer (Fluss, Kanal) fließenden Wassermenge und ihrer räumlichen und zeitlichen Varianz ist eine wesentliche Grundlage für die Bemessung von Wasserbauwerken sowie die rationale Bewirtschaftung der Ressource Wasser.

During the summers of recent years, Germany - and other countries in Europe - - perienced a considerable number of days, where limit values for ground level ozone set for the protection of human health were exceeded.

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Eine ernsthafte Diskussion über die Problematik des Klimawandels ist schwierig - vor allem wegen der wissenschaftlichen Unsicherheit über Ausmaß und Geschwindigkeit, aber ebenso wegen der Komplexität der Materie, die nur disziplinübergreifend erfolgversprechend bearbeitet werden kann.

This book addresses the characterization of flow and transport in porous fractured media from experimental and modeling perspectives.

This book is a practical guide to the subject of numerical modelling of radioactivity dispersion in the marine environment.

The essential guide to understanding the environment and climate change from multi-award-winning children's magazine The Week Junior, perfect for children determined to make a difference.

The Sunday Times bestseller by David Attenborough, who marks his 100th birthday this year - a deeply personal account of his love of the natural world, and the devastating changes to it he's witnessed first hand.

An invaluable resource for general readers investigating climate change, this book examines the impact of climate change on popular culture and analyzes how writers and directors treat the disasters caused by climate change in their novels and films.

Sustainable Planet is a two-volume resource that provides comprehensive coverage on the world's most pressing environmental issues, their impact in countries around the world, and how-or if-they are being addressed.

Using a risk management approach to tease apart the complex issue of climate change, this book assesses the key vulnerabilities and redirects the discussion to present a comprehensive plan to overhaul our response to climate change.

Employing scientific explanations and hard data, this book shows why coal is such a problem, how the pro-coal forces got to be so powerful, and how those forces might be defeated through political activism.

Fracking for gas trapped in shale could be a game changer in the quest to find alternatives to dirty fossil fuels, but it also has potential for harm.

How many of our efforts to save the environment are effective?

This book explains the science of climate change in plain language and shows that the 2 to 4 percent of climate scientists who are skeptical that humans are the main cause of global warming are a fringe minority-and have a well-established history of being wrong.

This anthology is a two-volume work that focuses on our relationship with the Earth and our future, examining the crossover between psychology and environmental studies in the emerging fields of ecopsychology and environmental psychology.

Logistics accounts for around 9-10% of global CO2 emissions and will be one of the hardest economic sectors to decarbonize.

Who has the right to decide how nature is used, and in what ways?

Since the Industrial Revolution, humans have transformed the Earth's atmosphere, committing our planet to more extreme weather, rising sea levels, melting polar ice caps, and mass extinction.

Climate disruption is often discussed on a global scale, affording many a degree of detachment from what is happening in their own backyards.

Since the Industrial Revolution, humans have transformed the Earth's atmosphere, committing our planet to more extreme weather, rising sea levels, melting polar ice caps, and mass extinction.

This book describes the reasons humankind may be facing its last moments on Planet Earth.

This book addresses the climate change crisis through scientific, historical, and spiritual lenses.

Given the underlying topography, the scenery over most of Britain has been created largely by human activities.

The results of climate change make the headlines almost daily.

Inspired by her uncle, Lisa Samson has communed with trees since her childhood.