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Pub. Date
[2012], c2010
Language
English
Description
The boreal biome, the sweeping band of conifer forest just south of the Arctic Circle, is a key region for studying climate change - and not just the impacts. Certainly, with boreal forest fires growing more frequent and boreal permafrost melting dramatically, the area is responding very visibly to the rise of carbon in the atmosphere. Yet the trees and permafrost themselves are vast reservoirs of carbon. Ecologists like Scott Goetz of the Woods Hole...
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A thrilling journey to one of the world's most perilous environments. This follows a team of world-class scientists as the explore the West Antarctic Peninsula. In the wake of devastating events like Superstorm Sandy and Hurricane Katrina, oceanagrapher Oscar Schofield teams up with a group of researchers in a race to understand the climate change in the fastest warming place on earth.
67) The last winter: the scientists, adventurers, journeymen, and mavericks trying to save the world
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"As the planet warms, winter is shrinking. In the last fifty years, the Northern Hemisphere lost a million square miles of spring snowpack and in the US alone, snow cover has been reduced by 15-30%. On average, winter has shrunk by a month in most northern latitudes. In this deeply researched, beautifully written, and adventure-filled book, journalist Porter Fox travels along the edge of the Northern Hemisphere's snow line to track the scope of this...
68) Wind of Change
Pub. Date
[2014], c2012
Language
English
Description
Wind of Change is a powerful document on how climate change is affecting a small farming family in Kenya. For generations the Kisilu family have been self-reliant; growing their own food and making their own money. But as the effects of climate change become more apparent, the family can no longer put their trust in the rain. Through beautiful images and Kisilu's own video diary we are brought close to him and his family in their fight against drought...
Pub. Date
[2013], c2013
Language
English
Description
Remember climate change? For the first time since 1984, the issue didn't even come up in a presidential debate. But bringing climate change back into our national conversation is as much a communication challenge as it is a scientific one. In this edition of Moyers Company, scientist Anthony Leiserowitz, director of the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication, joins Bill to describe his efforts to do what even Hurricane Sandy couldn't: galvanize...
Pub. Date
[2013], c2012
Language
English
Description
On July 8, 2012, NASA satellite imagery showed about 40 percent of Greenland's top ice layer intact. By July 12, only four days later, 97 percent of the ice had melted. NewsHour correspondent Margaret Warner asks NASA's Thomas Wagner for scientific explanation of the massive thaw.
71) Global Weirding
Pub. Date
[2013], c2012
Language
English
Description
Is the world's weather growing more extreme? This program joins hurricane chasers from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and discovers that over the last decade, these storms have been getting more powerful. MIT atmospheric scientist Kerry Emanuel warns that the new "black swan hurricanes," storms of unusual and unexpected ferocity, could hit places in the world that haven't been slammed by hurricanes in recorded history - and that...
Pub. Date
[2014], c2014
Language
English
Description
Bill Moyer speaks with Kelsey Juliana, an 18 year old environmental activist who is fighting against climate change in the courts and walking across the country to spread the word on global warming. She believes that "being green" is not enough and that laws need to be in place to limit emissions and promote renewable energy. In this interview, she highlights several reasons to care about global climate change, discusses the Great March for Action,...
73) The ecology book
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Explore ecology in this accessible introduction to how the natural world works and how we have started to understand the environment, ecosystems, and climate change. Using a bold, graphic-led approach, The Ecology Book explores and explains over 85 of the key ideas, movements, and acts that have defined ecology and ecological thought. The book has a simple chronological structure, with early chapters ranging from the ideas of classical thinkers to...
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Publisher Annotation: The world is facing a climate crisis like we've never seen before. And kids around the world are stepping up to raise awareness and try to save the planet. As people saw in the youth climate strike in September 2019, kids will not stay silent about this subject-they're going to make a change. Meet 12 young activists from around the world who are speaking out and taking action against climate change. Learn about the work they...
Pub. Date
[2014], c2014
Language
English
Description
In recent years, climate science has come under attack, so concerned geologist Simon Lamb grabbed his camera and set out to explore the inside story of climate research. For over three years he followed scientists from a wide range of disciplines at work in the Arctic, Antarctic, Southern Ocean, New Zealand, Europe, and the United States. They talk about their work, hopes and fears with candor and directness, resulting in an intimate portrait of the...
76) Weather
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Series
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Go with the flow and take a piece of the pie in this exciting real-life series. Explore topics such as the weather, animals, oceans, and plants and use our Smart Charts to see the world by numbers. How much rain falls in the UK every year? Which animals eat the most-and sleep the least? How many people ride the New York Subway every day? Get data-driven answers to all this and more in this colorful and engaging series.
77) A future we can love: how we can reverse the climate crisis with the power of our hearts & minds
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"In early 2021, a humble, old Tibetan monk in maroon and yellow robes met with a slight young woman from Sweden. He is a survivor of violence and oppression whose radiant happiness and empathy have become world famous; she a fiery activist whose uncompromising clarity helped spark the global youth movement for climate action. When these two people-the Dalai Lama and Greta Thunberg-met and spoke for the first time, millions of people around the world...
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
In GREEDY LYING BASTARDS, filmmaker and political activist Craig Rosebraugh, in association with Executive Producer Daryl Hannah, investigates efforts by oil industry interests, led by ExxonMobil and especially the Koch brothers, to fund skepticism of the scientific consensus on climate change. The film argues that this campaign is responsible for the failure to act on climate change. It covers "climate gate," arguing that this was a made up scandal...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
A science journalist presents the stories of Americans working to protect their homes and communities in an era of climate crisis, including a firefighter working to rebuild her town after catastrophic western wildfires and an Alaskan community that heads for higher ground as its land erodes.
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