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Robert Macfarlane brings his glittering style to a profound work of travel writing, reportage, and natural history. Is a River Alive? is a joyful, mind-expanding exploration of an ancient, urgent idea: that rivers are living beings who should be recognized as such in imagination and law. Macfarlane takes listeners on three unforgettable journeys teeming with extraordinary people, stories, and places: to the miraculous cloud-forests and mountain streams of Ecuador, to the wounded creeks and lagoons of India, and to the spectacular wild rivers of Canada.

If you're injuring someone, you should stop—and pay for the damage you’ve caused. Why, this book asks, does this simple proposition, generally accepted, not apply to climate change? In Climate Justice, a bracing challenge to status-quo thinking on the ethics of climate change, renowned author and legal scholar Cass Sunstein clearly frames what’s at stake and lays out the moral imperative: When it comes to climate change, everyone must be counted equally, regardless of when they live or where they live.

Employing in-depth reporting on cutting edge science and technology, veteran journalist Thomas E. Weber takes us on a tour of how meteorologists, scientists, and officials track and prepare for major weather events. As climate change is altering our planet and making weather events more extreme, Weber introduces us to those on the front lines of weather preparation and prediction.

In Forest Euphoria, Kaishian shows us this making of a scientist and introduces readers to the queerness, literal and otherwise, of all the life around us. Fungi, we learn, commonly have more than two biological sexes—and some as many as twenty-three thousand. Some intersex slugs mutually fire calcium carbonate “love darts” at each other during courtship.

Almost all environmental books treat the environmental crisis as though humans are in charge of nature, rather than part of it. The Earth and I is the first book to put all preconceived notions aside and to ask, naïvely: Who are we really? What is our relationship to the earth? How is it possible that we, out of all the millions of species, have come to destroy our common home? The answers are surprising and have far-reaching implications for those searching for solutions.

Life began with the hydrogenation of CO2, and this is the process we must return to in order to heal the planet. Ground-breaking ongoing research into bacterial processes means our knowledge of bacterial processes is ever-expanding, and we can harness this new knowledge to develop a parallel carbon economy using engineered bacteria for fuel, food, and materials. This would enable rewilding on a vast scale, with the small land footprint of bacterial technologies solving the current conflict in land use between farming and fuel and materials production.

THE FASTEST, SUREST WAY TO CRUSH THE EPA 608 EXAM—EVEN IF YOU'RE WORKING 60 HOURS A WEEK Worried about failing the EPA 608 exam? Struggling to balance long work hours, family life, and study time? This guide is your shortcut to passing on your first try—without wasting precious hours on confusing theory or endless reading. Built for hardworking HVAC techs and apprentices like you, the EPA 608 Study Guide gives you a clear, proven plan to master every section, eliminate test anxiety, and finally secure your certification—and the better career that comes with it. Inside, you’ll get: ...

Dr Rosa is no stranger to the Amazon. Growing up with the rainforest as her back garden, she learnt the lessons of the rainforest from her grandmother, a native healer in natural medicine. In this debut, you'll learn about Dr Rosa's journeys in the Amazon: her treacherous encounters with a boiling river, her conservation work with stingless bees, her experience of taking ayahuasca as a natural psychedelic—and all the amazing biodiversity of the rainforest.

The roots of today's environmental catastrophe run deep into humanity's past. Through this unprecedented reading of Homer's Iliad, the award-winning classicist Edith Hall examines how this foundational text both documents the environmental practices of the ancient Greeks and betrays an awareness of the dangers posed by the destruction of the natural landscape. Underlying Homer's account of brutal military operations, alliances, and cataclysmic struggle is a palpable understanding that the direction in which humanity was headed could create a world that was uninhabitable.

La visión de un futuro apocalíptico inunda los medios de comunicación. Estamos acabando con nuestro planeta, nuestro estilo de vida es insostenible y el creciente número de seres humanos empeora las cosas a pasos agigantados. Todo ello, unido al catastrófico cambio climático ocasionará en el futuro cercano un vasto sufrimiento a millones de personas. Se acercan enormes migraciones, cruentas guerras por unos recursos cada vez más escasos, unas cosechas cada vez más exiguas, fenómenos naturales cada vez más virulentos que originarán una destrucción sin igual. La sociedad ha ...

Este libro ve la luz con el fin de corregir un vacío existente en el mercado. No hay publicaciones en español críticas con las políticas medioambientales llevadas a cabo en la última década y media. Existe un consenso notable sobre este asunto particular, lo que lleva a manifestaciones tan ásperas con los discrepantes como las que ha sufrido el autor. Se pasa por alto que hay fundamentos científicos para cuestionar políticas que puedan limitar nuestras libertades. Y, en cualquier caso, siempre será sano el debate y la reflexión, lo que consigue José Ramón Arévalo con lucidez y...

The deep connection between nature and emotional well-being has been acknowledged since ancient times, with countless cultures and traditions extolling the therapeutic benefits of surrounding oneself with nature's beauty. Modern scientific research has further validated these beliefs, highlighting the profound impact that nature has on our mental health and emotional stability. Nature provides a sanctuary for psychological restoration, offering a respite from the stresses and demands of daily life. Immersing oneself in natural surroundings has been shown to reduce levels of cortisol, the ...

Our Earth is more than just the place we live—it’s a living, breathing, awe-inspiring system that supports all of life as we know it. From the tallest mountains to the deepest oceans, from the icy Arctic to lush rainforests, Earth is filled with beauty, mystery, and a complex web of life in which we are a vital part. Every animal, plant, river, forest, and cloud plays a role in keeping our planet balanced and alive. And yet, despite this natural harmony, our Earth is facing growing dangers—dangers largely caused by us, by human activity, habits, and decisions made over time.

When longtime AI expert and journalist Karen Hao first began covering OpenAI in 2019, she thought they were the good guys. Founded as a nonprofit with safety enshrined as its core mission, it was meant, its leader Sam Altman told us, to act as a check against more purely market forces. In exhilarating prose and with unparalleled access to those closest to Sam Altman, Hao recounts the meteoric rise of OpenAI and shows us the sinister impact that this industry is having on society.

In When It All Burns, wildland firefighter and anthropologist Jordan Thomas recounts a single, brutal six-month fire season with the Los Padres Hotshots—the special forces of America’s firefighters. Being a hotshot is among the most difficult jobs on earth. Thomas viscerally renders his crew’s attempts to battle flames that are often too destructive to contain. He uncovers the hidden cultural history of megafires, revealing how humanity’s symbiotic relationship with wildfire became a war—and what can be done to change it back.

Growing up on the plains of Africa is anything but easy. Sahara faces lions, rogue male cheetah, and an encroaching human population. With space a valuable and limited resource, Sahara must fight tooth and nail to survive the harsh African wilderness. After a crippling lion attack, she is taken in by conservationists. Declaring her unfit to return to the wild, they send her off to a European zoo where she must learn to fit in. Unable to do so, she faces death. Fortunately, one conservationist is on her side. Together, they make a mad dash back to Africa where she is reunited with her ...

n Lone Wolf, Weymouth interrogates how the wolf—loved and loathed, vilified and romanticized throughout history—is re-emerging in wild and cultivated landscapes; how the borders between us and them are slipping away; and what our deep-rooted fear of the mysterious creature really means.

Time is running out in our fight against climate change! As carbon emissions rise and temperatures soar, the world is inching closer to irreversible damage. Discover the power of nuclear energy to save our planet and secure a sustainable future. In ATOMIC GREEN, Mary Fran Reed, PhD—an expert in nuclear science and emergency response—delivers a transformative exploration of how nuclear energy can combat the devastating effects of global warming. Drawing on decades of experience, Dr. Reed dismantles widespread myths about nuclear power and presents its undeniable potential to reduce ...

At the heart of Is a River Alive? is a single, transformative idea: that rivers are not mere matter for human use, but living beings, who should be recognized as such in both imagination and law. Macfarlane takes the reader on a mind-expanding global journey into the history, futures, people and places of the ancient, urgent concept. Around the world, rivers are dying from pollution, drought and damming. But a powerful movement is also underway to recognize the lives and the rights of rivers, and to re-animate our relationships with these vast, mysterious presences whose landscapes we share.

The North American prairie is an ecological marvel, a lush carpet of grass that stretches to the horizon, and home to some of the nation’s most iconic creatures—bison, elk, wolves, pronghorn, prairie dogs, and bald eagles. Plants, microbes, and animals together made the grasslands one of the richest ecosystems on Earth and a massive carbon sink, but the constant expansion of agriculture threatens what remains.