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No One Is Too Small To Make a Difference

'Everything needs to change. And it has to start today' In August 2018 a fifteen-year-old Swedish girl, Greta Thunberg, decided not to...

The Uninhabitable Earth - A Story of the Future

It is worse, much worse, than you think. The slowness of climate change is a fairy tale, perhaps as pernicious as the one that says it...

Deep - Freediving, Renegade Science and What the Ocean Tells Us About Ourselves

Covering a diving championship in Greece on a hot and sticky assignment for Outside magazine, James Nestor discovered free diving. He had...

How to Avoid a Climate Disaster

In this urgent, authoritative book, Bill Gates sets out a wide-ranging, practical - and accessible - plan for how the world can get to ze...

The Ecology Book - Big Ideas Simply Explained

An accessible introduction to ecological science, with nearly one-hundred events and developments explained. Features quotes from leading...

Modern Approaches in Vegetation Monitoring

This volume includes contributions to a symposium entitled State of the Art in Vegetation Monitoring Approaches and organized by the Swis...

Composting for Sustainable Agriculture

The dramatic worldwide increase in agricultural and industrial productivity has created severe environmental problems. Soil and groundwat...

Beetles of the World - A Natural History

Beetles make up about a quarter of known animal species and are arguably the most diverse group of organisms on Earth: almost 400,000 spe...

Laser-based Environmental and Process Measurement

This book presents an overview of the latest in research and development of laser-based and optical measurement techniques, which are uni...

The living sea

Shipping and the Environment - Improving Environmental Performance in Marine Transportation

This book focuses on the interaction between shipping and the natural environment and how shipping can strive to become more sustainable....

Habitability of Other Planets and Satellites

Is the Earth the right model and the only universal key to understand habitability, the origin and maintenance of life? Are we able to de...

Lake Restoration Handbook - A New Zealand Perspective

Lakes across the globe require help. The Lake Restoration Handbook: A New Zealand Perspective addresses this need through a series of cha...

Biodiversity of Armenia

Armenia is a small landlocked mountainous country located in the Southern Caucasus. It is a typical mountainous country, having its lowes...

Ecology and Conservation of Mountain Nyala (Tragelaphus buxtoni) - in Bale Mountains National Park in Ethiopia

Antelopes in Ethiopia are facing increasing challenges posed by anthropogenic pressures emanating from habitat destruction for human sett...

Will China Save the Planet?

Now that Trump has turned the United States into a global climate outcast, will China take the lead in saving our planet from environment...

Dryland Ecohydrology

By combining the analysis of biotic and abiotic components of terrestrial ecosystems, this book synthesizes material on arid and semiarid...

Global Biodiversity - Status of the Earth¿s Living Resources

Global Biodiversity is the most comprehensive compendium of conservation information ever published. It provides the first systematic rep...

Strangers at the German Shores. Fremd an deutschen Küsten

Immer mehr Algen und wirbellose Tiere aus Übersee werden in deutsche Küstengewässer verschleppt. Sie integrieren sich, aber verändern die...

Selective Breeding in Aquaculture: An Introduction - An Introduction

This book provides a basic introduction to selective breeding in aquatic species, and describes the concepts behind establishing and runn...

Ocean Bestiary - Meeting Marine Life from Abalone to Orca to Zooplankton

"Ocean Bestiary tells the history of our relationship with the sea, one animal at a time, from A to Z. From the earliest Polynesian navig...

Fish Nutrition

Fish Nutrition, Fourth Edition is an up-to-date, authoritative presentation of all key elements of the nutrition of fish and crustaceans....

Caribou Rainforest: From Heartbreak to Hope

Aquatic Habitats - Aquariums Inspired by Nature

In Aquatic Habitats, Tai Strietman transports readers from their living rooms to wild and beautiful freshwater habitats around the world.

The Global Environmental Catastrophe Has Begun!

Huge forest and bush fires, gigantic downpours, dying forests, floods, drought disasters, and tornadoes - almost daily reports of disaste...

Weather Almanac 2025 - The Perfect Gift for Nature Lovers and Weather Watchers

The perfect gift for nature lovers and weather watchers. A fascinating month-by-month collection of facts, figures and explanations relat...

Stream Ecology - Structure and Function of Running Waters

Stream Ecology: Structure and Function of Running Waters is designed to serve as a textbook for advanced undergraduate and graduate stude...

Elemental - How Five Elements Changed Earth's Past and Will Shape Our Future

"Over the past four billion years of Earth's history, three organisms-cyanobacteria, plants, and humans--have altered the planet in profo...

Ice Rivers - A Story of Glaciers, Wilderness and Humanity

Longlisted for the Wainwright PrizeShortlisted for the Richard Jeffries AwardThe story of one woman's passion for glaciersAs one of the w...

The Journeys of Trees: A Story about Forests, People, and the Future - A Story about Forests, People, and the Future

Forests are restless. When a tree dies or a new one sprouts, the forest that includes it shifts. When new trees sprout in the same direct...

Soil Degradation, Conservation and Remediation

In view of the grave consequences of soil degradation on ecosystem functions, food security, biodiversity and human health, this book cov...

Emerging Issues in Fish Larvae Research

This book deals with the fundamentals of key physiological mechanisms involved in the development and growth of fish larvae. Chapters inc...

Challenges in Tropical Coastal Zone Management - Experiences and Lessons Learned

This book focuses on tropical coasts, which are highly vulnerable due to a multitude of stressors. Population growth is substantial, habi...

The Forest Unseen - A Year's Watch in Nature

A biologist reveals the secret world hidden in a single square meter of old-growth forest--a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the Pen/...

The Songs of Trees - Stories from Nature's Great Connectors

The author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist The Forest Unseen visits with nature's most magnificent networkers - trees "Both a love song to...

How Far the Light Reaches - A Life in Ten Sea Creatures

A fascinating tour of creatures from the surface to the deepest ocean floor: this "miraculous, transcendental book" invites us to envisio...

The Bathysphere Book - Effects of the Luminous Ocean Depths

"A gorgeous account of William Beebe's 1934 Bathysphere expedition, the first-ever deep-sea voyage to the otherworldly environment 3,024 ...

Clover Garden - A Carolinian's Piedmont Memoir

Between North Carolina's coastal plain and the Blue Ridge Mountains lies the Piedmont: some 250 linear miles of rolling, long-settled lan...

Spatial Analysis - A Guide For Ecologists

An essential guide for graduates, researchers and professionals to spatial analysis and the fast-growing range of methods available.

The Diversity of Fishes - Biology, Evolution and Ecology

THE DIVERSITY OF FISHES The third edition of The Diversity of Fishes is a major revision of the widely adopted ichthyology textbook, inco...

The World Atlas of Deserts and Drylands

A richly illustrated atlas of the world’s deserts and drylands, their ecosystems, and their environments Deserts and drylands account for...

Into the Great Wide Ocean - Life in the Least Known Habitat on Earth

A sea-going scientist explores how life thrives in one of the most mysterious environments on Earth The open ocean, far from the shore an...

Foundations of Stream and River Ecology - A Guide to the Classic Literature

"For students and practitioners, a comprehensive primer on the key literature in stream and river ecology. The study of streams and river...

Plant Ecology - Origins, Processes, Consequences

This book presents a global and interdisciplinary approach to plant ecology, guiding students through essential concepts with real-world ...

The Bathysphere Book - Effects of the Luminous Ocean Depths

Sing Like Fish - how sound rules life under water

A captivating exploration of how underwater animals tap into sound to survive, and a clarion call for humans to address the ways we invad...

Planet Earth III - Accompanies the Landmark Series Narrated by David Attenborough

The official tie-in to the third instalment in the legendary Planet Earth franchise Few places on Earth remain untouched by humans, creat...

Fur, Fleas, and Flukes - The Fascinating World of Parasites

Shedding light on the unseen world around us, Fur, Fleas, and Flukes reveals the role parasites play in shaping the lives of wild mammals.

The Soils of Poland

This book gives an extensive characterisation of the soils of Poland, as well as information about soil-forming environment, soil cover d...

Biodiversity Mechanisms in Continuous Cultures

No One Is Too Small To Make a Difference

'Everything needs to change. And it has to start today' In August 2018 a fifteen-year-old Swedish girl, Greta Thunberg, decided not to...

Sustainable and Traditional Environmental Conservation in Asia - Concept, Approach and Case Studies of Satoyama

This book articulates the traditional Japanese concept of conservation, called Satoyama, for effective management of nature's goods and s...

Numerical Ecology - Volume 24

3rd edition. Includes new and updated knowledge on advanced numerical methods used in fundamental and applied research for analysing ecol...

Gaia's Web - How Digital Environmentalism Can Combat Climate Change, Restore Biodiversity, Cultivate Empathy, and Regenerate the Earth

"This book explores how tools of the Digital Age might be mobilized to solve our most pressing environmental challenges, from climate cha...

A Primer of Ecological Statistics

A Primer of Ecological Statistics, Second Edition explains fundamental material in probability theory, experimental design, and parameter...

Ecology - From Individuals to Ecosystems

A definitive guide to the depth and breadth of the ecological sciences, revised and updated The revised and updated fifth edition of Ecol...

Community Ecology

An accessible introduction to community ecology which looks at the linkages between communities separated in space (metacommunity dynamic...

Coral Reefs - Majestic Realms under the Sea

An eye-opening introduction to the complexity, wonder, and vital roles of coral reefs

Handbook of Agricultural Biotechnology, Volume 5 - Nanobiofertilizers

Tree Species Effects on Soils: Implications for Global Change - Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Trees and Soil Interactions, Implications to Global Climate Change, August 2004, Krasnoyarsk, Russia

Almost 50% of the total area of Austria is forested, and the forests are dominated by commercially valuable stands of Norway spruce ( (Pi...