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Author
Publisher
Storey Publishing
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
With dozens of simple prompts and exercises, best-selling author, naturalist, and artist Clare Walker Leslie invites you to step outside for just a few minutes a day, reignite your sense of wonder about the natural world, and discover the peace and grounding that come from connecting with nature.
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Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
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Thirty years ago Bill McKibben offered one of the earliest warnings about climate change. Now he broadens the warning: the entire human game, he suggests, has begun to play itself out. Bill McKibben's groundbreaking book The End of Nature -- issued in dozens of languages and long regarded as a classic -- was the first book to alert us to global warming. But the danger is broader than that: even as climate change shrinks the space where our civilization...
45) Shrublands
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Series
Publisher
Raintree
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Introduces some animals and plants that live in areas too dry for forests but too wet to be deserts.
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Language
English
Description
"Living at the border between life and non-life, fungi use diverse cocktails of potent enzymes and acids to disassemble some of the most stubborn substances on the planet, turning rock into soil and wood into compost, allowing plants to grow. Fungi not only help create soil, they send out networks of tubes that enmesh roots and link plants together in the 'Wood Wide Web.' Fungi also drive many long-standing human fascinations: from yeasts that cause...
Author
Publisher
Laurence King Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"In his follow-up to the bestselling Around the World in 80 Trees, Jonathan Drori takes another trip across the globe, bringing to life the science of plants by revealing how their worlds are intricately entwined with our own history, culture and folklore. From the seemingly familiar tomato and dandelion to the eerie mandrake and Spanish 'moss' of Louisiana, each of these stories is full of surprises. Some have a troubling past, while others have...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
When Giggs encountered a humpback whale stranded on her local beachfront in Australia, she began to wonder how the lives of whales reflect the condition of our oceans. Here she blends natural history, philosophy, and science to learn about whales so rare they have never been named; whale songs that sweep across hemispheres in annual waves of popularity, and whales that have modified the chemical composition of our planet's atmosphere. She takes readers...
Series
Publisher
DK Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
2019
Language
Español
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Utilizando un enfoque audaz y dirigido por gráficos, The Ecology Book explora y explica más de 85 ideas, movimientos y actos clave que han definido la ecología y el pensamiento ecológico.
Using a bold, graphics-driven approach, The Ecology Book explores and explains more than 85 key ideas, movements and acts that have defined ecology and ecological thinking.
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Series
Publisher
Greystone Books
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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Description
"From the international bestselling author of The Hidden Life of Trees. An illuminating manifesto on ancient forests: how they adapt to climate change by passing their wisdom through generations, and why our future lies in protecting them. In his beloved book The Hidden Life of Trees, Peter Wohlleben revealed astonishing discoveries about the social networks of trees and how they communicate. Now, in The Power of Trees, he turns to their future, with...
Author
Series
Publisher
Book House
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"A spectacular 'top-to-bottom' look at the Amazon rainforest, from the highest branches, through the dense canopy and thick jungle, to the dark depts and the river below. Brilliant, eye-catching artwork by Isobel Lundie, along with the fact-filled, easy-to-read text by Alex Woolf, reveal the wonders of the plant and animal life that flourish in the Amazon rainforest."--Back cover.
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Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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"On the Tibetan Plateau, there are wild yaks with blood cells thinner than those of horses' by half, enabling the endangered yaks to survive at 40 below zero and in the lowest oxygen levels of the mountaintops. But climate change is causing the snow patterns here to shift, and with the snows, the entire ecosystem. Food and water are vaporizing in this warming environment, and these beasts of ice and thin air are extraordinarily ill-equipped for the...
58) Ecosystems
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Series
Publisher
Hungry Tomato Ltd
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
All things on this Earth are part of the ecosystem. Animals and plants depend on each other to survive. Animals and plants also need the Sun and non-living things such as water and soil. It's a difficult balance to get right. Explore the amazing relationship between living things and their environment.
Author
Publisher
Greystone Books
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
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"In an era of cell phone addiction and ever-expanding cities, many of us fear we've lost our connection to nature--but Peter Wohlleben is convinced that age-old ties linking humans to the forest remain alive and intact. Whether we observe it or not, our blood pressure stabilizes near trees, the color green calms us, and the forest sharpens our senses. Drawing on new scientific discoveries, The Heartbeat of Trees reveals the profound interactions humans...
Author
Publisher
University of California Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"[An] exploration of the complex web of relationships between the salmon of the Pacific Northwest and the surrounding ecosystem. Dale Stokes shows how nearly all aspects of this fragile ecosystem--from streambeds to treetops, from sea urchins to orcas to bears, from rain forests to kelp forests--are intimately linked with the biology of the Pacific salmon ... and demonstrates how the cycling of nutrients between the ocean and the land, mediated by...
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