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Extinction Planet
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Author : Anna Claybourne
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2022-09-22
Extinction Planet written by Anna Claybourne and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-09-22 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
Extinction Planet offers young readers a clear, insightful look at Earth's wildlife extinction crisis It is estimated that out of around eight million species on Earth, at least one million plant and animal species are threatened with extinction, and that the current rate of extinction is up to 100 times higher than in any previous mass extinction. And it's human activity that's largely responsible for this frightening decline. Extinction Planet takes a non-alarmist, but truthful, look at Earth's extinction crisis, explaining what a mass extinction is, how they occur and what their repercussions can be. It explores how, as humankind has caused this latest biodiversity crisis, we also have the solutions to slow or stop its damage, from reining in overconsumption, rewilding natural places, making farming more planet-friendly, preventing overfishing and seriously tackling climate change. It also suggests ways we can all live in a more planet-friendly way, from global changes such as investing in renewable energy sources, to individual actions such as buying sustainable products and eating less meat and fish. Following on from Plastic Planet, Hot Planet, Recycled Planet and Sustainable Planet, Extinction Planet features the same blend of illustrations and photos and a striking cover, and is written by the award-winning author Anna Claybourne. Aimed at readers aged 9 and up.
Dying Planet
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Author : Jon Erickson
language : en
Publisher: Tab Books
Release Date : 1991
Dying Planet written by Jon Erickson and has been published by Tab Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Science categories.
What we need to know on a personal and societal level to reverse current trends for our planet.
The Worst Of Times
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Author : Paul B. Wignall
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2017-05-09
The Worst Of Times written by Paul B. Wignall and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-05-09 with Nature categories.
260 million years ago, life on Earth suffered wave after wave of cataclysmic extinctions, with the worst--the end-Permian extinction--wiping out nearly every species on the planet. This book delves into the mystery behind these extinctions and sheds light on the fateful role the primeval supercontinent, known as Pangea, may have played in causing these global catastrophes. Drawing on the latest discoveries as well as his own field expeditions to remote corners of the world, Paul Wignall reveals what scientists are only now beginning to understand about the most prolonged period of environmental crisis in Earth's history. He describes how a series of unprecedented extinction events swept across the planet in a span of eighty million years, rapidly killing marine and terrestrial life on a scale more devastating than the dinosaur extinctions that would come later. Wignall shows how these extinctions--some of which have only recently been discovered--all coincided with gigantic volcanic eruptions of flood basalt lavas that occurred when the world's landmasses were united into a single vast expanse. Unraveling one of the great enigmas of ancient Earth, this book also explains how the splitting apart of Pangea into the continents we know today ushered in a new age of vibrant and more resilient life on our planet.--Adapted from book jacket.
Extraction To Extinction
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Author : David Howe
language : en
Publisher: Saraband
Release Date : 2022-04-05
Extraction To Extinction written by David Howe and has been published by Saraband this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-04-05 with Science categories.
Tracing our environmental impact through time, David Howe demonstrates how humanity’s exploitation of Earth’s natural resources has pushed our planet to its limit and asks: What’s next for our depleted planet? Everything we use started life in the earth, as a rock or a mineral vein, a layer of an ancient seabed, or perhaps the remains of a 400-million-year-old volcano. Humanity's ability to fashion nature to its own ends is by no means a new phenomenon—we have been inventing new ways to help ourselves to its bounty for tens of thousands of years. But today, we mine, quarry, pump, cut, blast, and crush Earth's resources at an unprecedented rate. We have become a dominant, even dangerous, force on the planet. In Extraction to Extinction, David Howe traces our impact through time to unearth how our obsession with endlessly producing and throwing away more and more stuff could destroy our planet. But is there still time to turn it around?
The Ends Of The World
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Author : Peter Brannen
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2017-09-07
The Ends Of The World written by Peter Brannen and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09-07 with Science categories.
Apocalypse, now? Death by fire, ice, poison gas, suffocation, asteroid. At five moments through history life on Earth was dragged to the very edge of extinction. Now, armed with revolutionary technology, scientists are uncovering clues about what caused these catastrophes. Deep-diving into past worlds of dragonflies the size of seagulls and fishes with guillotines for mouths, they explore how – against all the odds – life survived and what these ominous chapters can tell us about our future.
Dodging Extinction
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Author : Anthony D. Barnosky
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2014-10-01
Dodging Extinction written by Anthony D. Barnosky and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-01 with Nature categories.
Paleobiologist Anthony D. Barnosky weaves together evidence from the deep past and the present to alert us to the looming Sixth Mass Extinction and to offer a practical, hopeful plan for avoiding it. Writing from the front lines of extinction research, Barnosky tells the overarching story of geologic and evolutionary history and how it informs the way humans inhabit, exploit, and impact Earth today. He presents compelling evidence that unless we rethink how we generate the power we use to run our global ecosystem, where we get our food, and how we make our money, we will trigger what would be the sixth great extinction on Earth, with dire consequences. Optimistic that we can change this ominous forecast if we act now, Barnosky provides clear-cut strategies to guide the planet away from global catastrophe. In many instances the necessary technology and know-how already exist and are being applied to crucial issues around human-caused climate change, feeding the world’s growing population, and exploiting natural resources. Deeply informed yet accessibly written, Dodging Extinction is nothing short of a guidebook for saving the planet.
Inheritors Of The Earth
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Author : Chris D. Thomas
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2017-09-05
Inheritors Of The Earth written by Chris D. Thomas and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09-05 with Nature categories.
Human activity has irreversibly changed the natural environment. But the news isn't all bad. It's accepted wisdom today that human beings have permanently damaged the natural world, causing extinction, deforestation, pollution, and of course climate change. But in Inheritors of the Earth, biologist Chris Thomas shows that this obscures a more hopeful truth -- we're also helping nature grow and change. Human cities and mass agriculture have created new places for enterprising animals and plants to live, and our activities have stimulated evolutionary change in virtually every population of living species. Most remarkably, Thomas shows, humans may well have raised the rate at which new species are formed to the highest level in the history of our planet. Drawing on the success stories of diverse species, from the ochre-colored comma butterfly to the New Zealand pukeko, Thomas overturns the accepted story of declining biodiversity on Earth. In so doing, he questions why we resist new forms of life, and why we see ourselves as unnatural. Ultimately, he suggests that if life on Earth can recover from the asteroid that killed off the dinosaurs, it can survive the onslaughts of the technological age. This eye-opening book is a profound reexamination of the relationship between humanity and the natural world.
Extinction
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Author : Ashley Dawson
language : en
Publisher: OR Books
Release Date : 2016-08-01
Extinction written by Ashley Dawson and has been published by OR Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-08-01 with Business & Economics categories.
Some thousands of years ago, the world was home to an immense variety of large mammals. From wooly mammoths and saber-toothed tigers to giant ground sloths and armadillos the size of automobiles, these spectacular creatures roamed freely. Then human beings arrived. Devouring their way down the food chain as they spread across the planet, they began a process of voracious extinction that has continued to the present. Headlines today are made by the existential threat confronting remaining large animals such as rhinos and pandas. But the devastation summoned by humans extends to humbler realms of creatures including beetles, bats and butterflies. Researchers generally agree that the current extinction rate is nothing short of catastrophic. Currently the earth is losing about a hundred species every day. This relentless extinction, Ashley Dawson contends in a primer that combines vast scope with elegant precision, is the product of a global attack on the commons, the great trove of air, water, plants and creatures, as well as collectively created cultural forms such as language, that have been regarded traditionally as the inheritance of humanity as a whole. This attack has its genesis in the need for capital to expand relentlessly into all spheres of life. Extinction, Dawson argues, cannot be understood in isolation from a critique of our economic system. To achieve this we need to transgress the boundaries between science, environmentalism and radical politics. Extinction: A Radical History performs this task with both brio and brilliance.
The Fate Of The Species
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Author : Fred Guterl
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2012-05-22
The Fate Of The Species written by Fred Guterl and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-05-22 with Science categories.
In the history of planet earth, mass species extinctions have occurred five times, about once every 100 million years. A "sixth extinction" is known to be underway now, with over 200 species dying off every day. Not only that, but the cause of the sixth extinction is also the source of single biggest threat to human life: our own inventions. What this bleak future will truly hold, though, is much in dispute. Will our immune systems be attacked by so-called super bugs, always evolving, and now more easily spread than ever? Will the disappearance of so many species cripple the biosphere? Will global warming transform itself into a runaway effect, destroying ecosystems across the planet? In this provocative book, Fred Guterl examines each of these scenarios, laying out the existing threats, and proffering the means to avoid them. This book is more than a tour of an apocalyptic future; it is a political salvo, an antidote to well-intentioned but ultimately ineffectual thinking. Though it's honorable enough to switch light bulbs and eat home-grown food, the scope of our problems, and the size of our population, is too great. And so, Guterl argues, we find ourselves in a trap: Technology got us into this mess, and it's also the only thing that can help us survive it. Guterl vividly shows where our future is heading, and ultimately lights the route to safe harbor.
A New Dawn
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Author : Umberto Buenaventura
language : en
Publisher: CreateSpace
Release Date : 2010-05-01
A New Dawn written by Umberto Buenaventura and has been published by CreateSpace this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-05-01 with Fiction categories.
This, A New Dawn - Planet on the Brink of Extinction, is a truly spell-binding, first in a series novel that will move and inspire any reader. Researched and written over a period of five plus years by the two well educated authors who bring this tale to you, it is an astonishing account that borders between reality and fiction, touching every aspect of life as we know it on Planet Earth, from falling in love to dealing with grief during the illnesses and passing of loved ones, to political corruption, corporate greed, terrorism, blackmail, development and implementation of futuristic high tech gadgets, development of advanced space vehicles, the feeling of space travel and its inherent possible dangers for travelers, challenging and jaw-dropping encounters with inhabitants similar to us of other planets, highly sophisticated protective space shields in other planets, and super classified projects to help avert a total extinction of the planet, just to name a few. The setting takes place in a planet similar to our own. And like in Planet Earth, for thousands of years the major continents of the planet in this series of novels beginning with this one, thrived from the progressive economic boom enjoyed by billions but their leaders paid little attention to the catastrophic consequences caused to their global environment by irresponsible inhabitants-induced events. But as drastic and as horrifying the events may seem, there is always a slim chance of hope for every one of us. And in this series of tantalizing stories, a small group of courageous inhabitants, with unlimited financial backing, decided to join forces as a team to provide the leadership and vision to reverse the course of events to avert total planet's annihilation. Their decisiveness gave rise to the beginning of A New Dawn for the planet and its inhabitants.