Our Fragile Planet – serie
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8 produkter
Climate
Av Dana Desonie
Inbunden, 2008
399 kr
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Though climate change is normal in Earth's history, global warming has raised average temperatures to their highest in two millennia, resulting in melting ice caps, shorter winters, changes in the seasonal behaviors of animals, and more extreme weather. And though greenhouse gases are essential for …
Oceans
How We Use the Seas
Av Dana Desonie
Inbunden, 2008
397 kr
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Earth's seas play a tremendous role in the planet's systems: Ocean currents transfer water and heat around the globe, and ocean ecosystems are among the most biologically productive anywhere. But the oceans are being abused. Wild fisheries are harvested to the point of collapse, and some …
Atmosphere
Air Pollution and Its Effects
Av Dana Desonie
Inbunden, 2007
443 kr
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Earth's atmosphere supports and protects all of its life, giving the planet its blue skies, mild temperatures, and weather. But people use the atmosphere for another purpose: as a dump for waste gases and particles. Air pollution obscures vistas, damages ecosystems, and compromises human health. …
Hydrosphere
Fresh Water Systems and Pollution
Av Dana Desonie
Inbunden, 2008
397 kr
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Earth is the water planet, but only a tiny amount of the planet's water is fresh and usable, and water pollution has become a monumental dilemma as we enter the 21st century. Though developed nations now regulate some pollutants and as a result their waterways are cleaner, new chemicals are …
Polar Regions
Av Dana Desonie
Inbunden, 2008
443 kr
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There is no place more remote than the Arctic and Antarctic, but their remoteness has not kept them isolated: Pollutants released in developed lands travel on air and water currents into the polar regions, the ozone hole has widened over Antarctica, and global warming is causing its greatest damage …
Biosphere
Av Dana Desonie
Inbunden, 2008
443 kr
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Earth's astonishing diversity of life - in coral reefs, Arctic tundra, tropical rainforests, deep-sea hot springs, and many others - is amazing for its beauty and for the ecosystem services it provides. People, however, exploit organisms and ecosystems for food, clothing, shelter, medicines, and …
Humans and the Natural Environment
Av Dana Desonie
Inbunden, 2008
357 kr
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No other species in Earth's history has been able to disregard the natural laws that govern population size quite like humans have. And as a result we have experienced an unfathomable population explosion: a nearly 7-fold increase in three centuries and from 3 billion to 6.6 billion in just 45 …
Our Fragile Planet Set
Av Dana Desonie
Inbunden, 2009
3930 kr
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While change has been fundamental to the planet throughout its history, people have altered the environment in myriad ways: resources are being overexploited; natural landscapes are being altered for human uses; pollution is contaminating the air, water, and soil; and, global temperatures are …
