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Réalisé par des milliers d’experts de toutes nationalités et adopté par les gouvernements à l’ONU, le rapport du Giec fait consensus. Sylvestre Huet, journaliste spécialiste des questions climatiques

Enormes incendios han devastado amplias áreas del mundo en los últimos años, y se prevé que seguirá ocurriendo lo mismo como resultado del cambio climático. Pero esto no es nada nuevo. Desde los albores de la vida en la Tierra, los incendios a gran escala han desempeñado un papel importante en su configuracion. Andrew C. Scott cuenta toda la historia del impacto del fuego en la atmosfera, el clima, la vegetacion, la ecologia y la evolucion de la vida animal y vegetal de nuestro planeta. Ha provocado extinciones masivas y ha impulsado la propagacion de plantas y flores. Las pruebas de todo ello se han conservado en forma de carbon fosil, que se ha encontrado en rocas de hace cientos de millones de años en todo el mundo. Estos restos revelan detalles increiblemente pormenorizados de plantas prehistoricas, y nos hablan sobre los climas que se han sucedido a lo largo de la historia de la Tierra. Tambien nos dan una idea de como los primeros hominidos y humanos domesticaron y usaron el fuego. Al observar el impacto de los incendios hoy, Scott desea fervientemente que podamos manejarlos mejor en el futuro, ya que los efectos del cambio climatico seran cada vez mayores en nuestro mundo.Enormes incendios han devastado amplias áreas del mundo en los últimos años, y se prevé que seguirá ocurriendo lo mismo como resultado del cambio climático. Pero esto no es nada nuevo. Desde los albores de la vida en la Tierra, los incendios a gran escala han desempeñado un papel importante en su configuracion. Andrew C. Scott cuenta toda la historia del impacto del fuego en la atmosfera, el clima, la vegetacion, la ecologia y la evolucion de la vida animal y vegetal de nuestro planeta. Ha provocado extinciones masivas y ha impulsado la propagacion de plantas y flores. Las pruebas de todo ello se han conservado en forma de carbon fosil, que se ha encontrado en rocas de hace cientos de millones de años en todo el mundo. Estos restos revelan detalles increiblemente pormenorizados de plantas prehistoricas, y nos hablan sobre los climas que se han sucedido a lo largo de la historia de la Tierra. Tambien nos dan una idea de como los primeros hominidos y humanos domesticaron y usaron el fuego. Al observar el impacto de los incendios hoy, Scott desea fervientemente que podamos manejarlos mejor en el futuro, ya que los efectos del cambio climatico seran cada vez mayores en nuestro mundo.

2020: The Walk es un viaje a pie entre Granada y Helsinki para difundir el ideario de Extinction Rebellion, movimiento social internacional cuyo objetivo es influir sobre los gobiernos del mundo y las politicas medioambientales mediante la desobediencia civil no violenta para minimizar el calentamiento global, la perdida de biodiversidad, la extincion masiva de especies y el riesgo de colapso social y ecologico.

Simple swaps and innovative ideas for cleaning and maintaining your home that won't cost the Earth.Learn how easy it is to make simple swaps in your cleaning and tidying methods for a more eco-friendly home, with helpful tips from bestselling author and Great British Bake Off winner Nancy Birtwhistle.This beautifully illustrated black and white guide with 101 hints and sustainable, natural cleaning tips and hacks will help you take small steps that have a massive positive environmental impact. In Clean & Green, Nancy shares the simple recipes and methods she has developed since making a conscious effort to live more sustainably, many of which are faster and easier than the go-to products and methods most of us use now.

Learning helps to govern the environment and adapt proactively to complex and emerging environmental issues This Element synthesizes insights from academic and applied research on learning to inform both research and practice It helps better understand diagnose and support learning and more adaptive responses to environmental problems

Includes a preface and epilogue that brings Wilderness and the American Mind into dialogue with contemporary debates about wilderness This is a study of changing attitudes toward wilderness during American history as well as the origins of the environmental and conservation movements

How an iconic bird s final days exposed the reality of human caused extinctionThe great auk is one of the most tragic and documented examples of extinction A flightless bird that bred primarily on the remote islands of the North Atlantic the last of its kind were killed in Iceland in 1844 Gisli Palsson draws on firsthand accounts from the Icelanders who hunted the last great auks to bring to life a bygone age of Victorian scientific exploration while offering vital insights into the extinction of species Palsson vividly recounts how British ornithologists John Wolley and Alfred Newton set out for Iceland to collect specimens only to discover that the great auks were already gone At the time the Victorian world viewed extinction as an impossibility or trivialized it as a natural phenomenon Palsson chronicles how Wolley and Newton documented the fate of the last birds through interviews with the men who killed them and how the naturalists Icelandic journey opened their eyes to the disappearance of species as a subject of scientific concern and as something that could be caused by humans Blending a richly evocative narrative with rare unpublished material as well as insights from ornithology anthropology and Palsson s own North Atlantic travels The Last of I

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A unique perspective on how our living planet has evolved and adapted from early organisms to life in the current Anthropocene

A gripping read for anyone who cares about what we re doing to the planet and how we can change it DAVID SHUKMAN FORMER BBC NEWS SCIENCE EDITOR Searing observations focused on our need to protect biodiversity A tour de force SIR TIM SMIT OBE CO FOUNDER OF THE EDEN PROJECT An informative uplifting and truly important book JONATHON PORRITT AUTHOR AND CAMPAIGNEROne woman s journey through South America and the devastating story of our planet s disappearing biodiversityPedalling hard for thirteen months eco adventurer Kate Rawles cycled the length of the Andes on an eccentric bicycle she built herself The Life Cycle charts her mission to find out why biodiversity is so important what s happening to it and what can be done to protect it From the Pacific Ocean to rainforests and salt flats Kate learns that armadillos can cross rivers by holding their breath that Colombia has more species of birds than North America and Europe combined and that in threatening ecosystems we re tearing down our own life support system En route she witnesses the devastation of goldmining and oil drilling but finds hope in the incredible people working to regenerate habitats and communities As she reaches the end of the world she realises that to tackle biodiversity loss

I know of no one better qualified to understand what young people are facing today Philippa Perry There are epidemic rates of ADHD depression anxiety self harm and suicide in young people The conventional medical model wants to put a plaster on the problems with medication and CBT but we as parents need to dig deeper We need to face the fact that it is not our child s fault but the world we are bringing them up in and that we play a key role in how they see this world Bringing together years of work helping children and the child inside us all acclaimed psychotherapist Louis Weinstock will show us how Split into two parts and blending mindfulness meditation and visualisation we are taken on a journey that starts with exploring our own fears and weaknesses and ends joyfully in practical ways we can help build confidence courage and authentic hope about the future in our children The power lies within each of us to create with and for our children a more beautiful world right now a world where they realise their almost infinite potential

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Introduces a way to study ecosystems that is resonant with current thinking in the fields of earth system science geobiology and planetology providing an alternative process based approach and proposing a truly planetary view of ecological science

A deeply personal master class on how to read a natural landscape and unravel the clues to its unique ecological history

An Australian biologist delves into the extraordinary world of koalas from their ancient ancestors to the current threats to their survival

An insight into the mysterious world of the remarkable but often underrated worm

A colourful and wide ranging account of the evolution biology and cultural history of sloths

Darwin gained a profound insight into how complex ecosystems evolve through the interactions of their species Here visiting some remarkable ecosystems Christopher Wills explains the recent scientific advances that allow us to measure the evolutionary drivers powering their diversity and resilience and can enable us to protect and restore them

The first comprehensive natural history guide to the Connecticut River and its environs with more than 750 illustrations

Offers a different way of understanding the world and a fresh approach to managing resources This work embraces human and natural systems as complex entities continually adapting through cycles of change and seeks to understand the qualities of a system that must be maintained or enhanced in order to achieve sustainability