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Author : Mary Colson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780750283748
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (837 download)
Download or read book Unstable Earth written by Mary Colson and published by . This book was released on 2014-08-28 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shows how interlinked geographical processes can have devastating consequences for people and the planet.
Author : Mary Colson
Publisher : Unstable Earth
ISBN 13 : 9781625881632
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (816 download)
Download or read book What Happens If the Rain Forests Disappear? written by Mary Colson and published by Unstable Earth. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines what life will be like if the world's rain forests disappear, the causes and consequences of this process, and what is being done to protect the remaining rain forests.
Author : Robert Prosser
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780852197196
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (971 download)
Download or read book Disappearing Rainforest written by Robert Prosser and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Dominick A. DellaSala
Publisher : Island Press
ISBN 13 : 1597266760
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (972 download)
Download or read book Temperate and Boreal Rainforests of the World written by Dominick A. DellaSala and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Temperate rainforests are biogeographically unique. Compared to their tropical counterparts, temperate rainforests are rarer and are found disproportionately along coastlines. Because most temperate rainforests are marked by the intersection of marine, terrestrial, and freshwater systems, these rich ecotones are among the most productive regions on Earth. Globally, temperate rainforests store vast amounts of carbon, provide habitat for scores of rare and endemic species with ancient affinities, and sustain complex food-web dynamics. In spite of their global significance, however, protection levels for these ecosystems are far too low to sustain temperate rainforests under a rapidly changing global climate and ever expanding human footprint. Therefore, a global synthesis is needed to provide the latest ecological science and call attention to the conservation needs of temperate and boreal rainforests. A concerted effort to internationalize the plight of the world’s temperate and boreal rainforests is underway around the globe; this book offers an essential (and heretofore missing) tool for that effort. DellaSala and his contributors tell a compelling story of the importance of temperate and boreal rainforests that includes some surprises (e.g., South Africa, Iran, Turkey, Japan, Russia). This volume provides a comprehensive reference from which to build a collective vision of their future.
Author : Kim Henderson
Publisher : SCB Distributors
ISBN 13 : 1893910962
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (939 download)
Download or read book 50 Simple Steps to Save the World's Rainforests written by Kim Henderson and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2012-03-12 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the very best conservation and environmental policy-making efforts, at least 80,000 acres of tropical rainforest disappear each day. If action is not taken now, experts estimate that the world’s rainforests will mostly disappear within 50 years. Currently, the destruction of tropical forests is responsible for 17 percent of man-made carbon emissions-more than what comes from all the world’s cars, airplanes and ships combined! Tropical rainforests need our help-and that’s where 50 Simple Steps to Save the World’s Rainforests comes in. The future of the world’s rainforests lies to a large extent in the collective hands of consumers and how they shop, since demand is what fuels the forces driving deforestation-agriculture, logging, and resource extraction. Through the 50-step journey, you will learn how, as a consumer, you may unwittingly support rainforest destruction and more importantly, precisely how you can make different choices that help save rainforests. For example, you will learn how your paper use and purchases of rayon clothing affect Indonesian rainforests where Sumatran tigers are critically endangered or how simply eating Brazil nuts helps save the Amazon rainforest. You will discover how the cultivation of palm oil, a common ingredient in confections, baked goods, soaps and biofuels, is fueling rampant deforestation in Malaysia, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea and how you can avoid it. 50 Simple Steps to Save the Rainforests is the ultimate primer for anyone wanting to take action to help save this ecosystem, which is so critical to the future of mankind.
Author : Douglas Preston
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1455540021
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (555 download)
Download or read book The Lost City of the Monkey God written by Douglas Preston and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2017-01-03 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The #1 New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller, named one of the best books of the year by The Boston Globe and National Geographic: acclaimed journalist Douglas Preston takes readers on a true adventure deep into the Honduran rainforest in this riveting narrative about the discovery of a lost civilization -- culminating in a stunning medical mystery. Since the days of conquistador Hernán Cortés, rumors have circulated about a lost city of immense wealth hidden somewhere in the Honduran interior, called the White City or the Lost City of the Monkey God. Indigenous tribes speak of ancestors who fled there to escape the Spanish invaders, and they warn that anyone who enters this sacred city will fall ill and die. In 1940, swashbuckling journalist Theodore Morde returned from the rainforest with hundreds of artifacts and an electrifying story of having found the Lost City of the Monkey God-but then committed suicide without revealing its location. Three quarters of a century later, bestselling author Doug Preston joined a team of scientists on a groundbreaking new quest. In 2012 he climbed aboard a rickety, single-engine plane carrying the machine that would change everything: lidar, a highly advanced, classified technology that could map the terrain under the densest rainforest canopy. In an unexplored valley ringed by steep mountains, that flight revealed the unmistakable image of a sprawling metropolis, tantalizing evidence of not just an undiscovered city but an enigmatic, lost civilization. Venturing into this raw, treacherous, but breathtakingly beautiful wilderness to confirm the discovery, Preston and the team battled torrential rains, quickmud, disease-carrying insects, jaguars, and deadly snakes. But it wasn't until they returned that tragedy struck: Preston and others found they had contracted in the ruins a horrifying, sometimes lethal-and incurable-disease. Suspenseful and shocking, filled with colorful history, hair-raising adventure, and dramatic twists of fortune, THE LOST CITY OF THE MONKEY GOD is the absolutely true, eyewitness account of one of the great discoveries of the twenty-first century.
Author : Nikki Tate
Publisher : Orca Book Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1459823575
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (598 download)
Download or read book If a Tree Falls written by Nikki Tate and published by Orca Book Publishers. This book was released on 2020-10-13 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every day more of the world’s forests disappear. Trees are cleared for agriculture, lost in wildfires and harvested for the valuable products they supply. Called the lungs of the planet, forests play a critical role in climate moderation. What happens when they’re gone? Are replanting and afforestation efforts helping? In If A Tree Falls: The Global Impact of Deforestation, author Nikki Tate gives an accessible and balanced look at forest practices throughout history, the growth of industry and the fight for preservation. Global deforestation affects us all. Find out what you can do to protect forests today and keep them healthy for future generations.
Author : Lynn M. Stone
Publisher : Rourke Publishing (FL)
ISBN 13 : 9780865933958
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (339 download)
Download or read book Vanishing Rain Forest written by Lynn M. Stone and published by Rourke Publishing (FL). This book was released on 1994 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the causes and consequences of rainforest destruction.
Author : Jillian Powell
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN 13 : 1477771662
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (777 download)
Download or read book Projects with Rainforests written by Jillian Powell and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book will take readers deep into the rainforest as they learn what grows and lives there, and its importance to the Earth. Each chapter introduces a new topic through a fun craft activity, and readers will get hands-on as they learn and create. With tribal masks and “Save the Rainforest” t-shirts, kids will have practical keepsakes to go along with all their newly acquired knowledge.
Author : Susie Brooks
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN 13 : 1508151504
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (81 download)
Download or read book Rain Forests written by Susie Brooks and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2016-07-15 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deep within the rain forest are trees that could cure diseases, venomous spiders, and a whole lot of rain! From the Amazon to Costa Rica, the world’s rain forests are fascinating places to learn about. Readers explore life under the canopy in this book, discovering the many amazing plants and animals that make their homes there, as well as each rain forest’s climate and environment. Full-color photographs show the brilliant green of rain forest trees and give readers up-close encounters with animals only found there, such as the adorable aye-aye.
Author : Tony Hare
Publisher : Franklin Watts
ISBN 13 : 9780531172483
Total Pages : 38 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (724 download)
Download or read book Rainforest Destruction written by Tony Hare and published by Franklin Watts. This book was released on 1990 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the crisis the world may face as a result of rainforest destruction, and looks at efforts being made to preserve forests.
Author : Caroljean Willie
Publisher : Maupin House Publishing, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0929895657
Total Pages : 77 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (298 download)
Download or read book Researching Tropical Rainforests written by Caroljean Willie and published by Maupin House Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2004 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Complete primary IIM units on Rainforests
Author : Gary E. McCuen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Ecocide and Genocide in the Vanishing Forest written by Gary E. McCuen and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the controversies surrounding the destruction of the tropical rain forest.
Author : Kylienne A. Clark
Publisher : The Ohio State University
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 594 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Environmental ScienceBites written by Kylienne A. Clark and published by The Ohio State University. This book was released on 2015-09-15 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book was written by undergraduate students at The Ohio State University (OSU) who were enrolled in the class Introduction to Environmental Science. The chapters describe some of Earth's major environmental challenges and discuss ways that humans are using cutting-edge science and engineering to provide sustainable solutions to these problems. Topics are as diverse as the students, who represent virtually every department, school and college at OSU. The environmental issue that is described in each chapter is particularly important to the author, who hopes that their story will serve as inspiration to protect Earth for all life.
Author : Russell Ash
Publisher : DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)
ISBN 13 : 9780789410092
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Incredible Comparisons written by Russell Ash and published by DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley). This book was released on 1996 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Packed with visual comparisons of hundreds of objects from the world around us, The Incredible Book of Comparisons is a book that children of all ages will love. This new book is ingeniously cross-referenced, offering tangible evidence of sizes, heights, speeds, and numbers. Gatefold pages reveal dramatic large-scale artworks that let the young reader appreciate comparisons at a glance. Full color.
Author : Claude Martin
Publisher : Greystone Books
ISBN 13 : 177164141X
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (716 download)
Download or read book On the Edge written by Claude Martin and published by Greystone Books. This book was released on 2015-04-20 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1972, The Limits to Growth introduced the idea that world resources are limited. Soon after, people became aware of the threats to the world’s rainforests, the biggest terrestrial repositories of biodiversity and essential regulators of global air and water cycles. Since that time, new research and technological advances have greatly increased our knowledge of how rainforests are being affected by changing patterns of resource use. Increasing concern about climate change has made it more important than ever to understand the state of the world’s tropical forests. This book provides an up-to-date picture of the health of the world’s tropical forests. Claude Martin, an eminent scientist and conservationist, integrates information from remote imaging, ecology, and economics to explain deforestation and forest health throughout the world. He explains how urbanization, an increasingly global economy, and a worldwide demand for biofuels put new pressure on rainforest land. He examines the policies and market forces that have successfully preserved forests in some areas and discusses the economic benefits of protected areas. Using evidence from ice core records and past forest cover patterns, he predicts the most likely effects of climate change. Claude Martin brings his wealth of experience as an ecologist, director of the WWF, and advistor to various conservation organizations to bear on the latest research from around the world. Contributions from eight leading experts provide additional insight.
Author : Rita Kimber
Publisher : Barron's Educational Series
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Vanishing Eden written by Rita Kimber and published by Barron's Educational Series. This book was released on 1991 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shows the immense variety of plant and animal life that struggles to survive in a constantly shrinking portion of the earth's tropical region.
