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Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
“Wonderfully written…Mr. Owen writes about water, but in these polarized times the lessons he shares spill into other arenas. The world of water rights and wrongs along the Colorado River offers hope for other problems.” —Wall Street Journal
An eye-opening account of where our water comes from and where it all goes.
The Colorado River is an essential resource for a surprisingly large part of the...
An eye-opening account of where our water comes from and where it all goes.
The Colorado River is an essential resource for a surprisingly large part of the...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"A riveting, urgent account of the explorers and scientists racing to understand the rapidly melting ice sheet in Greenland, a dramatic harbinger of climate change. Greenland: a remote, mysterious island five times the size of California but with a population of just 56,000. The ice sheet that covers it is 700 miles wide and 1,500 miles long, and is composed of nearly three quadrillion tons of ice. For the last 150 years, explorers and scientists...
Author
Publisher
Business Publications Corporation
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"On March 1, 2014, Ed Fallon set out with fifty other climate warriors on a journey that would change their lives. The March spanned eight months, started in Los Angeles, California, and finished in Washington, DC. Marcher, Walker, Pilgrim is Ed's account of the March. His story is infused with candid reflections about the intense interpersonal drama that threatened to tear apart the March community. With the March as the conduit, Ed shares deep,...
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Shows Louisiana before, during, and after Hurricane Katrina. Follows four musicians as they explore the culture of New Orleans. Focuses on the rapidly disappearing wetlands that are New Orleans' first line of defense against deadly storms.
Series
Publisher
University of Iowa Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"An Introduction to Iowa's Environmental Problems is an edited volume with 17 contributors besides Connie Mutel herself-all Iowa authors who are scientific experts in the field. Geared toward course adoption in Iowa and Midwest classrooms, it will fill a need for a comprehensive, but accessible and brief overview of the environmental issues Iowa faces, and what we can do about them. Specifically, the volume breaks down the issues surrounding Iowa's...
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Originating in the Himalayas and flowing into the Bay of Bengal, the Ganges is India's most important and sacred river. In this unprecedented work, historian Sudipta Sen tells the story of the Ganges, from the communities that arose on its banks to the merchants that navigated its waters, and the way it came to occupy center stage in the history and culture of the subcontinent. Sen begins his chronicle in prehistoric India, tracing the river's first...
Author
Language
English
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A Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist
Winner of the J. Anthony Lukas Award
A landmark work of science, history and reporting on the past, present and imperiled future of the Great Lakes.
Winner of the J. Anthony Lukas Award
A landmark work of science, history and reporting on the past, present and imperiled future of the Great Lakes.
The Great Lakes—Erie, Huron, Michigan, Ontario and Superior—hold 20 percent of the world’s supply of surface fresh water and provide sustenance, work and recreation for tens of millions of Americans.
...Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"An urgent and definitive collection of essays from leaders and experts championing the Green New Deal-and a detailed playbook for how we can win it-including contributions by leading activists and progressive writers like Varshini Prakash, Rhiana Gunn-Wright, Bill McKibben, Rev William Barber II, and more"--
Author
Publisher
HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A memoir from permafrost scientist Katey Walter Anthony on her pioneering research studying methane emissions in Arctic lakes-which has made significant contributions to the climate change dialogue-as well as her search for family, faith, and belonging, on her journey to becoming a scientist"--
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The dramatic story of the signature environmental disaster of our time and an inspiring tale of scientific resistance by a relentless physician who stood up to power. Flint was already a troubled city in 2014 when the state of Michigan--in the name of austerity--shifted the source of its water supply from Lake Huron to the Flint River. Soon after, citizens began complaining about the water that flowed from their taps--but officials rebuffed them,...
17) The wild river and the great dam: the construction of Hoover Dam and the vanishing Colorado River
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"At the time of its completion in 1936, Hoover Dam was the biggest dam in the world and the largest feat of architecture and engineering in the country--a statement of national ambition and technical achievement. It turned the wild Colorado River into a tame and securely managed water source, transforming millions of acres of desert into farmland while also providing water and power to the fast-growing population of the Southwest. The concrete monolith...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"A groundbreaking exploration of the relationship between humans and the natural world where two great economic ideologies converge. Along the Bering Strait, through the territories of the Inupiat and Yupik in Alaska, and the Yupik and Chukchi in Russia, Bathsheba Demuth explores an ecosystem that has long sustained human beings. Yet when Americans and Europeans arrived with self-serving ideas of human progress, the Chukchi and Seward Peninsulas and...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
The true story of an outdoorsman living alone in Western North Carolina who teams up with his neighbors and environmental lawyers to save a treasured mountain peak from the mining company. Explores the case against the Clark Stone Company that set groundbreaking legal precedent.
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