Environmental science, engineering and technology

This book is a Weekend Pocketbook on Everything You Should Know About the Biodiversity Crisis, the quiet unraveling of the living world we depend on more than we realize.

Mehrzweckschiffe gehören zu den unsichtbaren Stützen moderner Gesellschaften.

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Launching a new series, Monographs in Behavior and Ecology, this work is an intensive study of five species of New World monkeys--all omnivores with a diet of fruit and small prey.

A valuable and unique contribution both to environmental ethics and public policy analysis of the preservation of species question.

Seeking common principles of social evolution in different taxonomic groups, the contributors to this volume discuss eighteen groups of birds and mammals for which long-term field studies have been carried out.

Modern consumers are well aware that the food they eat is tainted by pesticidal residues; they are less aware that their great-grandparents faced the same hazard.

PREP SMARTER WITH BARRONS.

Somewhere beneath three kilometers of Antarctic ice, sealed in bubbles no wider than a pencil lead, is air that fell as snow before Homo sapiens existed.

This book is a Weekend Pocketbook on Everything You Should Know About the Mathematics of Climate Models.

Offshore-Windparks gehören zu den faszinierendsten technischen Bauwerken unserer Zeit.

Lawrence S.

This work is the first to focus systematically on a much-debated topic: the conceptual issues of community ecology, including the nature of evidence in ecology, the role of experiments, attempts to disprove hypotheses, and the value of negative evidence in the discipline.

For all persons seriously concerned about the destruction of natural environments in the contemporary world, this book presents a comprehensive rationale for preserving wild species and ecosystems.

How dangerous is smoking?

Heat domes are becoming one of the most powerful and dangerous weather phenomena of the modern era.

In 2000, a transformative climate-driven ';megadrought' swept over the Colorado River watershed.

Flooding in California.

For more than fifty years, we have been waging, but not winning, the war on cancer.

For more than fifty years, we have been waging, but not winning, the war on cancer.

In 2000, a transformative climate-driven ';megadrought' swept over the Colorado River watershed.

In March 2011, people in a coastal Japanese city stood atop a seawall watching the approach of the tsunami that would kill them.

Life in Ancient Ice presents an unparalleled overview of current research into microbial life in ancient glacial ice and permafrost.

Flooding in California.

In March 2011, people in a coastal Japanese city stood atop a seawall watching the approach of the tsunami that would kill them.

The planet is running a fever.

A New York Times and Sunday Times BestsellerWinner of the National Book Critics Circle Award 2025Longlisted for the 2025 Financial Times & Schroders Business Book of the YearShortlisted for Foyles Non Fiction Book of the Year 2025An eye-opening account of the tech arms race shaping out planet, from an award-winning journalist and AI insider to the world of Sam Altman and OpenAIWhen longtime AI expert and journalist Karen Hao first began covering OpenAI in 2019, she thought they were the good guys.

Environmental pollution has become one of the most critical challenges facing the modern world.

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.

Afterword by Professor Stephen Hawking"e;Reads like a thriller - and reveals many secrets.

Die Zukunft wie sie uns versprochen wurde, wird so nicht kommen.

El agua es el recurso más valioso de nuestro planeta y, sin embargo, la humanidad la trata con una alarmante irresponsabilidad.

Este libro revela el inmenso potencial de la ibia u oca (Oxalis tuberosa), un tubérculo ancestral andino que, pese a su alto valor nutricional y otras propiedades de su valor agregado, está en riesgo de desaparecer.

El libro Gestion hidrica y planificacion del territorio desde la sustentabilidad es una recopilacion de los trabajos de grado de estudiantes de la Maestria en Desarrollo Sustentable de la Universidad del Valle.

Ademas de escribir un libro sobre los graves problemas ambientales que afectan al planeta a principios del siglo XXI, las autoras quisieron que este tema fuera accesible a todos los lectores, dandole forma de una novela -de ahi su nombre- en la que los personajes intercambian, aparte de sus sentimientos, reflexiones y problemas existenciales, los datos mas actuales con respecto a la contaminacion en sus multiples aspectos: del aire, del agua, de la vida vegetal y animal, del ruido; en fin, de todas las formas que asume, sin olvidar el agujero de ozono.

En este libro, "Ecos y Visiones del Futuro", se emprende un fascinante viaje a través de las complejas transformaciones que definen nuestro mundo actual.

A nivel rural, las microcuencas abastecedoras están sufriendo los impactos de la variabilidad climática, lo cual agudiza los conflictos sociales y ambientales por la escasez de agua, como en el caso de la mayoría de acueductos rurales colombianos.

El libro Gestion hidrica y planificacion del territorio desde la sustentabilidad es una recopilacion de los trabajos de grado de estudiantes de la Maestria en Desarrollo Sustentable de la Universidad del Valle.

Los sistemas silvopastoriles –SSP– presentan un enfoque innovador para la producción ganadera bajo principios de conservación del medio ambiente.

Un pueblito del norte del Chile muere lentamente a causa de la contaminacion que provoca una empresa minera.

Cognisant of the bad press that agriculture often receives, Michael J.

"e;Enlightening conversations with historical icons that will fill your soul with optimism for the future of our planet while bringing comfort to those seeking answers about crossing over into the spirit world.

Trotz Kriegstreibern und Rückzügen: Neues Buch zeigt Wege in eine bessere Gegenwart"Wenn Kriegstreiber die Schlagzeilen dominieren und große Staaten sich aus Verantwortung verabschieden, entsteht schnell der Eindruck: Es hat keinen Sinn, sich zu engagieren", sagt Friedrich Andreas Wanschka.

Este libro analiza criticamente la tematica de las sequias en Chile, ofreciendo un estudio detallado de su regulacion, gestion y politicas centrales.

Going green all at once is too much for almost anyone to achieve.

Going green all at once is too much for almost anyone to achieve.

The Future of Life: When Limits Shape EvolutionIn a world where Earth's mass is fixed and its biosphere tightly bound by physical laws, life faces a paradox: unbounded population growth in a finite system.