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Il nostro pianeta è in pericolo, ben presto gli effetti del riscaldamento globale saranno irreversibili. Come siamo arrivati a questo punto? Di chi è la colpa? Cosa possiamo fare per invertire la rotta? Unendo approfondite competenze scientifiche a un inimitabile talento di narratore, che lo ha reso celebre in tutto il mondo, Frank Schätzing risponde a queste domande partendo dall'analisi del concetto di clima e di catastrofe ambientale, perché la regola numero uno di ogni guerra è "conosci il tuo nemico".

HISTOIRE ET PROJECTIONS, DÉRÈGLEMENTS CLIMATIQUES ET SOCIÉTÉ. Le GIEC a été une réussite scientifique pour démontrer un réchauffement climatique sans précédent, mais un échec politique radical à convaincre la société civile et les politiques. Ce cours sous forme d'entretiens réunit Dominique Bourg, le philosophe de l'environnement, Jean Jouzel, le paléoclimatologue Vice-Président du GIEC jusqu'en 2015, et Hervé Le Treut Climatologue spécialiste de la simulation numérique pour répondre aux questions.

Nesse livro, Peter Wohlleben compartilha conosco fascinantes histórias sobre as emoções, os sentimentos e a inteligência dos animais que nos cercam. Através de casos impressionantes de porcos leais, pássaros que traem as companheiras e galos conspiradores, ele mescla recentes descobertas científicas à própria experiência como engenheiro florestal para mostrar como os animais interagem com o mundo. Você vai ver que embora sejam diferentes de nós de muitas formas impressionantes, eles são, ao mesmo tempo, mais parecidos conosco do que poderíamos imaginar.

Lasst uns den Menschen als Teil der Natur neu denken! Den Fluss Orinoco bereiste vor 200 Jahren Alexander von Humboldt auf seiner Südamerika-Expedition, und dieser Naturforscher ist einer der Leitsterne für das neue Hörbuch der Bestsellerautoren Harald Lesch und Klaus Kamphausen. Denn: Wir benötigen dringend ein neues Verständnis der natürlichen Welt und ein neues Verständnis von uns selbst, eines in dem auch das Fühlen und Wundern wieder mehr Platz erhalten. Eines, das uns ermöglicht, die Rolle des Menschen als Teil des Ökosystems Erde neu zu bestimmen und die Zerstörung unserer Lebensgrundlagen zu verhindern.

What is my state and other states' official state insect or butterfly? Is there somewhere in each state to go see the state insect or butterfly? Is my state doing anything to protect these or other insects? If you find yourself asking any of these questions, then this book is for you. This book will list a place in each state where you can see the state insect such as a conservatory, farm, or sanctuary. Because so many of these insects are being threatened or are endangered, many states have programs in effect to help protect them, which will also be listed.

In this collection of essays from 2016-2021, the author explores a variety of themes, including the environment, war, agriculture, settler colonialism, racism, patriarchy, media criticism, "green energy", collapse, and the nature of civilization itself. Stylistically, the selections vary from reporting to analysis to personal storytelling. They previously appeared on Counterpunch, Resilience, Green Social Thought, and other online venues, but this is their first time in an audiobook .

Life histories can be defined as the means by which individuals (or more precisely genotypes) vary their age- or stage-specific expenditures of reproductive effort in response to genetic, phenotypic, and environmental correlates of survival and fecundity. Life histories reflect the expression of traits most closely related to individual fitness, such as age and size at maturity, number and size of offspring, and the timing of the expression of those traits throughout an individual's life. Life-history research plays an integral role in species conservation and management. 

This book, 50 Things to Know About Bugs in Texas, by Megan Deeter, offers an approach to better understanding the microworld through the eyes of Texas’s smaller critters - the insects! Most books on insect biology will focus on very generalized regions, such as the entirety of the southwest rather than specific states. Although there's nothing wrong with that, this book pays close attention to the insects found in the geographically diverse Lonestar State.

For many people, ecosystems may be a remote concept, yet we eat, drink, breathe and interface with them in every moment of our lives. In this engaging textbook, ecosystems scientist Dr. Mark Everard considers a diversity of "everyday things", including fascinating facts about their ecological origins: from the tea we drink, to the things we wear, read, and enjoy, to the ecology of communities and space flight, and the important roles played by germs and "unappealing creatures" such as slugs and wasps.

Nell'agosto 2018 la quindicenne svedese Greta Thunberg decise di scioperare dalla scuola per richiamare l'attenzione sul mancato rispetto dell'Accordo di Parigi sul clima. Da allora ogni venerdì si mette davanti al Parlamento a Stoccolma, o in altre piazze del mondo, con un cartellone scritto da lei su cui si legge "Skolstrejk för Klimatet" (Sciopero dalla scuola per il clima). Quello slogan, quel gesto hanno ispirato migliaia di giovani e sono diventati un fenomeno globale.

Extinción nos revela con evidencia científica la crisis ecológica y climática que atraviesa nuestro planeta. En los próximos cincuenta años 4000 millones de personas vivirán en zonas no aptas para la producción de alimentos. Para 2080 América del Sur estará en una sequía extrema. El 60% de los mamíferos y el 70% de las aves son criados para alimentar humanos.

Il mare: culla della vita, meraviglia della natura capace di dividere come di unire. Da sempre i poeti ne cantano lo splendore e la forza, e popoli interi l'hanno solcato nel corso dei millenni. Ancora oggi offre cibo, lavoro ed energia a metà della popolazione mondiale. Abbiamo chiamato Terra il nostro pianeta, eppure il 71 per cento della sua superficie è ricoperto da distese d'acqua, che nelle loro profondità ospitano l'80 per cento delle specie viventi; esse regolano il clima, producono il 50 per cento dell'ossigeno che respiriamo e assorbono un terzo dell'anidride carbonica prodotta dall'uomo.

A beloved natural historian explores how climate change is driving evolution In Hurricane Lizards and Plastic Squid, biologist Thor Hanson tells the remarkable story of how plants and animals are responding to climate change: adjusting, evolving, and sometimes dying out. Anole lizards have...

Un CV imaginaire, une fausse identité, et un crâne rasé... "Steak Machine" est le récit d'une infiltration de quarante jours dans un abattoir industriel. Dans ce reportage glaçant, le journaliste Geoffrey Le Guilcher partage et raconte le quotidien des ouvriers : les giclées de sang dans les yeux, les doigts qui se bloquent et les défonces nocturnes. Car dans une usine qui abat deux millions d'animaux par an, le traitement indigne réservé aux bêtes s'accompagne toujours d'une violence exercée sur les hommes.

The once denuded Northeastern United States is now a region of trees. Nature Next Door argues that the growth of cities, the construction of parks, the transformation of farming, the boom in tourism, and changes in the timber industry have together brought about a return of Northeastern forests. Although historians and historical actors alike have seen urban and rural areas as distinct, they are in fact intertwined, and the dichotomies of farm and forest, agriculture and industry, and nature and culture break down when the focus is on the history of Northeastern woods.

Yellowstone Wildlife is a natural history of the wildlife species that call Yellowstone National Park and the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem their home. Yellowstone Wildlife describes the lives of species in the park, exploring their habitats from the Grand Tetons to Jackson Hole.

Father Kaleeg Hainsworth, an Eastern Orthodox priest with a lifetime of experience in the Canadian wilderness, grounds this manifesto in the literary, philosophical, mystical, and historical teachings of the spiritual masters of both East and West, outlining the human experience of the sacred in nature.The spiritual ecology described here is fully engaged with the wilderness beyond our backyards; it is an ecology which takes in nature as red in tooth and claw and offers a way forward in the face of accelerating climate change.

This is a memoir of a woman who took solo journeys to conduct an explorative, observational research study in India with elephants, horses, goats, and dogs using specific Animal Energy Therapy techniques such as sound, touch and smell. In her story telling style, the author speaks about several individual animals that she worked with and closely observed during a length of time. Her interests lie in the integration of Animal Energy Therapy and the affects of individualized therapy for each, with regards to behavioral anxieties and traumas.

Somos um país urbano: 84% da população brasileira concentra-se em cidades e ao menos metade vive em municípios com mais de 100 mil habitantes. Mas a vida urbana não traz apenas novas oportunidades. Ela propicia doenças provocadas por falta de saneamento, picadas de mosquitos, poluição, violência, ritmo frenético... E tudo isso não ocorre mais apenas nas grandes cidades, mas também nas médias e mesmo pequenas, quase sempre negligenciadas pelo poder público e pelos próprios cidadãos.

Exister, pour une société humaine, ne signifie-t-il pas modifier son environnement ? Aménager, transformer, laisser des traces ? Le rapport de l'humanité à la nature est l'objet de dynamiques immémoriales de conquêtes et de frugalité, mais la prise de conscience de la fragilité du vivant auquel l'humanité appartient, et qui accompagne l'apparition de l'écologie comme objet de réflexion et d'étude, est très récente.