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Author
Publisher
Spiegel & Grau
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
The climate is changing more rapidly than scientists predicted even a few years ago, with extreme weather already touching our everyday lives. At the same time, the clean energy revolution is forging ahead faster than nearly anyone anticipated. As Tom Steyer sees it, these two trends together create a moment like the one America faced during World War II: on the one hand, an existential threat calling for collective action; on the other, an opportunity...
Author
Publisher
Mason Crest
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Climate refers to the average weather pattern of a particular area. Weather is the state of the atmosphere of a particular region. The factors that contribute to the weather of a given place are rainfall, temperature, air pressure, and humidity. Weather changes every day. Climate change, however, is a much more complex phenomenon, with great consequences on ecology. The rise in global temperatures over the decades has proved that climate is indeed...
Author
Publisher
Mason Crest
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"As the world's climate changes, two areas are being significantly affected. Deserts are expanding and becoming even more dry and arid. Forests are disappearing, thanks in part to logging by humans. The Earth doesn't need more deserts, and it desperately needs more forests. Inside, find out more about these vital biomes and how people are working hard to make sure they survive properly"--Back cover.
Author
Publisher
Green Mountain College
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
This study assessed the amount of information available on two endangered butterfly subspecies that exist only in the Presidential Range of the White Mountains, New Hampshire. The White Mountain Arctic (Oeneis melissa semidea) and the White Mountain Fritillary (Boloria titania montinus) are glacial relics that have become trapped in the highest elevations of this mountain range due to fragmentation caused by the effects of climate change. A listing...