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2022.
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"In the tradition of Elizabeth Kolbert and Barry Lopez, a powerful, poetic and deeply absorbing account of the "lung" at the top of the world. For the last fifty years, the trees of the boreal forest have been moving north. Ben Rawlence's The Treeline takes us along this critical frontier of our warming planet from Norway to Siberia, Alaska to Greenland, to meet the scientists, residents and trees confronting huge geological changes. Only the hardest...
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Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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This program is read by the author.
In We Are the Weather, Jonathan Safran Foer explores the central global dilemma of our time in a surprising, deeply personal, and urgent new way.
Some people reject the fact, overwhelmingly supported by scientists, that our planet is warming because of human activity. But do those of us who accept the reality of human-caused climate change truly believe it? If we did, surely
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Avid Reader Press
Pub. Date
2024.
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xvi, 279 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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English
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A compelling global exploration of nature and survival as seen via a dozen species of trees that represent the challenges facing our planet, and the ways that scientists are working urgently to save our forests and our future. The world today is undergoing the most rapid environmental transformation in human history--from climate change to deforestation. Scientists, ethnobotanists, indigenous peoples, and collectives of all kinds are closely studying...
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Additional New Books for the Pueblo Chieftain: December 26, 2022
Best Non-Fiction of 2022 - Kirkus Reviews
Best Non-Fiction of 2022 - Kirkus Reviews
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"Five stunningly large, unbroken forests remain on Earth: the Taiga, extending from the Pacific Ocean across all of Russia and far-northern Europe; the North American boreal, ranging from Alaska's Bering seacoast to Canada's Atlantic coast; the Amazon, covering almost the entirety of South America's bulge; the Congo, occupying Africa's wet equatorial middle and parts of six nations; and the island forest of New Guinea, twice the size of California....
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Bogs, swamps, and marshes are all different types of wetlands. Many plants and animals rely on this biome for reproduction, safety, or simply a drink of water. Some need to adapt to this environment, like the mangrove trees that get oxygen by growing roots above the surface. Take a closer look at wetland critters and vegetation in this engaging title for developing readers!
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Bold Type Books
Pub. Date
2023.
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vii, 372 pages ; 25 cm
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English
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"In a riveting investigation of the science and ecology of wildfires, journalist M.R. O'Connor ventures into some of the oldest, most beautiful, and remote forests in North America to explore the powerful and ancient relationship between trees, fires, and humans. Along the way, she describes revelatory research in the fields of paleobotany and climate science to show how the world's forests have been shaped by fire for hundreds of millions of years....
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English
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"In his enthusiastic explorations and fervent writing, Michael J. Yochim "was to Yellowstone what Muir was to Yosemite. Other times, his writing is like that of Edward Abbey, full of passion for the natural world and anger at those who are abusing it," writes foreword contributor William R. Lowry. A legendary hiker and an avid backpacker, Yochim worked for the National Park Service for three decades. In 2013 Yochim was diagnosed with ALS (Lou Gehrig's...
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Livestock series. Management volume no. 1.625
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Colorado State University Cooperative Extension
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English
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Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
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1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 78 minutes) : digital, .flv file, sound
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English
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The clock is ticking on one of the greatest potential disasters in the history of our species and one man leads a worldwide crusade to avert it. Crop diversity pioneer Cary Fowler travels the world, educating the public about the dire consequences of our inaction. The world's agriculture - and it's fate - are dependent on the ability of plants to adapt to changes in climate, pests and disease - but today's crops around the globe are grown from human-engineered...
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University of New Mexico Press
Pub. Date
2020.
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xxi, 187 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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English
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"At the Precipice explores the question many of us have asked ourselves: What kind of world are we leaving to our children? The realities of climate change consume the media and keep us up at night worrying about the future. But in New Mexico and the larger Southwest, climate change has been silently wreaking havoc: average temperatures in the Upper Rio Grande Basin are increasing at double the global average; super fires like Las Conchas have devastated...
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[Soutnwest Climate Change Initiative]
Pub. Date
2011
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1 online resource ([262] p.) : ill, maps.
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English
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This report summarizes the results of a rapid landscape-scale climate vulnerability assessment for the Gunnison Basin. The primary objective of this assessment was to determine what ecosystems/habitats and species are most at risk to climate change (and why) under climate change scenarios predicted for 2050. This report summarizes the results of a landscape-scale climate change vulnerability assessment of 24 ecosystems (17 terrestrial and seven freshwater...
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Livestock series. Management volume no. 1.626
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Colorado State University Extension
Pub. Date
[2009]
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1 digital file ([3] p. ; 485 KB)
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English
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Simon & Schuster Canada
Pub. Date
2020.
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xxi, 161 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
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English
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"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,...
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Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2023.
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 30 cm
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English
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"Enter the dark Antarctic winter, where a pair of emperor penguins share the task of keeping their young one alive--and discover how fighting climate change is key to their survival"--
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