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Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
192 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Description
"Drawing on real-life situations and stories, journalist Jeff Fleischer takes an informed, approachable look at how our world will change as a result of the climate crisis, addressing sea levels, extreme weather, drought, extinction, and migration"--
3) Meltdown
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (67 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
For years Lynn Davis has photographed the icebergs of Greenland, now with a climate change expert, they explore the implications for the planet.
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
xxii, 265 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Description
A history of climate change describes the dramatic evolution and stabilization of the oceans before the rise of humans approximately 6,000 years ago, tracing a significant rise in global temperatures since 1860 and how a rising sea level is affecting world populations. By the best-selling author of The Great Warming.
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
As global temperatures continue to rise, scientists are wondering if there are solutions beyond reducing emissions. Enter geoengineering. From sucking carbon straight out of the air to physically blocking out sunlight, the options may seem far-fetched. Can geoengineering really work? How much would it cost? And what are the risks of engineering Earth's climate?
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
xxi, 161 pages : illustrations, map ; 20 cm
Description
"From the top of the world, Hudson Bay looks like an enormous paw print on the torso of the continent, and through a vast network of lakes and rivers, the water in this bay connects to oceans across the globe. Here, at the heart of everything, walks Nanurjuk, or Nanu, one polar bear among the six thousand that traverse the 1.23 million square kilometres of ice and snow covering the bay. For millennia, Nanu's ancestors have roamed this great expanse,...
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (270 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Travel back through history, over 27,000 years into the past, when Arctic glaciers reached as far south as London and people faced a daily struggle not just to survive as individuals, families or groups, but to avoid the ultimate extinction of the species. A key moment in the course of history saw the two branches of humankind, the Neanderthals and the Cro-Magnons, face off against the backdrop of perilous cold, harsh conditions, and massive predators....
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