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-- Seven billionc2011., Adult, National Geographic Edition: eBook ed. Summary Note: "Environment editor Robert Kunzig starts by sketching out a natural history of population. The issues associated with population growth seem endless: poverty, food and water supply, world health, climate change, deforestation, fertility rates, and more. In additional chapters Elizabeth Kolbert explores a new era--the "Anthropocene," or the age of man--defined by our massive impact on the planet, which will endure long after our cities have crumbled; and takes us to the Mediterranean, where she delves into issues associated with increasing ocean acidification. In Bangladesh, Don Belt explores how the people of this crowded region can teach us about adapting to rising sea levels. In "Food Ark" we travel deep within the earth and around the globe to explore the seed banks that are preserving the variety of food species we may need to increase food production on an increasingly crowded planet. In Brazil, Cynthia Gournay explores the phenomenon of "Machisma" and shows how a mix of female empowerment and steamy soap operas helped bring down Brazil's fertility rate and stoke its vibrant economy. Additionally we explore threats to biodiversity, and the return of cities--which may be the solution to many of our population woes. Join National Geographic on this incredible journey to explore our rapidly growing planet."--OverDrive.
![7 billion [eBook] : how your world will change](/Library/images/~imageCT73481.JPG "7 billion [eBook] : how your world will change")
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2007., Éditions MultiMondes Call No: QWF FR 576.8 R721h Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: LœADN, ce fil invisible, nous a fait redécouvrir lœunité du vivant. Non sans quelques surprises... Le grand arbre de la vie quœévoquait Charles Darwin est décidément un buisson bien touffu.À travers des histoires savoureuses et sur un ton souvent personnel, ce livre raconte la manière dont le vivant se construit, se diversifie - et comment il est menacé par cette espèce bien particulière quœest lœhomme.Quels sont les plus proches cousins des baleines ?De quelle manière le papillon Apollo fabrique-t-il des taches en forme dœoeil pour déjouer les prédateurs ?Quœest-ce qui nous distingue vraiment des chimpanzés sur le plan génétique ?Comment la nature fabrique-t-elle une patte à partir dœune nageoire ?Comment le saumon sœest-il adapté à la grosseur des mailles des filets de pêche ?Pourquoi les créationnistes affectionnent-ils lœornithorynque ?À ces questions et à beaucoup dœautres qui sont loin dœêtre farfelues, ce livre apporte des réponses menant au coeur des débats les plus actuels de la biologie. Il présente notamment, sous une forme accessible, les résultats de la toute nouvelle approche quœest « lœévo-dévo , pour évolution et développement.Un livre pour célébrer lœévolution et en repérer la marque dans la nature autour de soi. Quitte à ne plus jamais voir de la même manière les saumons, les ours ou les modestes plants de maïs. Ou encore, les étonnants bélugas du fleuve Saint-Laurent...
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2015., Little, Brown and company Call No: 591.68 D289l Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "In 1992, in a remote mountain range, a team of scientists discovered the remains of an unusual animal with beautiful long horns. It turned out to be a living species new to western science -- a saola, the first large land mammal discovered in 50 years. Rare then and rarer now, no westerner had glimpsed a live saola before Pulitzer Prize finalist and nature writer William deBuys and conservation biologist William Robichaud set off to search for it in the wilds of central Laos. The team endured a punishing trek, up and down whitewater rivers and through mountainous terrain ribboned with the snare lines of armed poachers. In the tradition of Bruce Chatwin, Colin Thubron, and Peter Matthiessen, THE LAST UNICORN is deBuys's look deep into one of the world's most remote places. As in the pursuit of the unicorn, the journey ultimately becomes a quest for the essence of wildness in nature, and an encounter with beauty"--
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c2010, p2009., BBC Earth : 2 Entertain Video ; Distributed in the USA and Canada by Warner Home Video, Inc. Call No: DVD 577 L722l Edition: Widescreen. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Four years in the making, and filmed over 3000 days across every continent and in every habitat, see 130 incredible stories from frontiers of the natural world. Discover the glorious variety of life on Earth and the spectacular and extraordinary tactics animals and plants have developed to stay alive. This is evolution in action: individual creatures under extreme pressure to overcome challenges from adversaries and their environment.
![Life [DVD] (2009). Narrated by Oprah Winfrey.](/Library/images/~imageCT71271.JPG "Life [DVD] (2009). Narrated by Oprah Winfrey.")
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2020., Grand Central Publishing Call No: 508 A883a Edition: First American Edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "I am 94. I've had an extraordinary life. It's only now that I appreciate how extraordinary. As a young man, I felt I was out there in the wild, experiencing the untouched natural world - but it was an illusion. The tragedy of our time has been happening all around us, barely noticeable from day to day - the loss of our planet's wild places, its biodiversity. I have been witness to this decline. A Life on Our Planet is my witness statement, and my vision for the future. It is the story of how we came to make this, our greatest mistake - and how, if we act now, we can yet put it right. We have one final chance to create the perfect home for ourselves and restore the wonderful world we inherited. All we need is the will do so."--inside jacket.
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-- Fishing the Atlantic in the age of sailc2012., Adult, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press Call No: 639.2091 B687m Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Since the Viking ascendancy in the Middle Ages, the Atlantic has shaped the lives of people who depend upon it for survival. W. Jeffrey Bolster, a historian and professional seafarer, takes us through a millennium-long environmental history of our impact on one of the largest ecosystems in the world. The western Atlantic's legendary fishing banks, stretching from Cape Cod to Newfoundland, have attracted fishermen for more than five hundred years. Bolster follows the effects of this siren<U+2019>s song from its medieval European origins to the advent of industrialized fishing in American waters at the beginning of the twentieth century. Blending marine biology, ecological insight, and a remarkable cast of characters, from notable explorers to scientists to an army of unknown fishermen, Bolster tells a story that is both ecological and human: the prelude to an environmental disaster. Over generations, harvesters created a quiet catastrophe as the sea could no longer renew itself"--Provided by publisher.
