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Examines the positive changes taking place around the world. People are working to bring better access to doctors and nurses to improve everyone´s health

Explores how countries around the world are using preservation and a smarter use of resources to protect the habitats of living things

In several societies around the world, people are struggling to gain their rights. People have shown great courage as they overcome serious obstacles to gain their rights and exercise democratic freed...

The Skeptical Environmentalist challenges widely held beliefs that the environmental situation is getting worse and worse. The author, himself a former member of Greenpeace, is critical of the way in ...

This book enables engineering students to understand how microbiology can be applied to environmental research and practical applications. Written specifically for senior undergraduate to graduate lev...

As a novel endeavour in ecological science, this book focuses on a major issue in organismal life on Earth:species coexistence. The book crosses the usual disciplinary boundaries between palaeobiology...

This concise introductory text provides a complete overview of biodiversity - what it is, how it arose, its distribution, why it is important, human impact upon it, and what should be done to maintain...

The classic reference on weeds and invasive plants has been revised and updated. The Third Edition of this authoritative reference provides an in-depth understanding of how weeds and invasive plants d...

Focusing on the use and misuse of the environment, this forward-looking book provides insights into where we seem to be headed as a species on the planet. Emphasizes the geographic aspects of problems...

The field of environmental chemistry has evolved significantly since the publication of the first edition of Environmental Chemistry. Throughout the book’s long life, it has chronicled emerging issues...

For plants and animals, every place on Earth is a home, or habitat, which provides food, water, and shelter. Yet scientists are finding that habitats for many animals and plants around the world are s...

Examines how water, soil and the atmosphere have become increasingly polluted and the impact pollution has on people´s health

Examines how water, soil and the atmosphere have become increasingly polluted and the impact pollution has on people´s health

Explores how countries around the world are using preservation and a smarter use of resources to protect the habitats of living things

The Global Issues series consists of books at three reading levels covering 12 of the most important geographic and environmental issues of our time. Informational text for social studies and language...

In several societies around the world, people are struggling to gain their rights. People have shown great courage as they overcome serious obstacles to gain their rights and exercise democratic freed...

Examines the positive changes taking place around the world. People are working to bring better access to doctors and nurses to improve everyone´s health .

Examines how countries around the world are taking steps, such as conservation, to lessen the effects of climate change.

According to most scientists, Earth´s atmosphere has warmed by about 1.4 degrees Fahrenheit in the past 100 years. The result has been melting glaciers, rising sea levels, and more extreme weather eve...

Water is an essential resource for life on Earth. Considering how vital and precious water is, it is almost unbelievable that it can be used so carelessly. Sewage, toxic chemicals, fertilizers, pestic...

Examines how countries around the world are taking steps, such as conservation, to lessen the effects of climate change

Explores the ways in which water on Earth has become polluted - and what people around the globe are doing to solve this problem

There is now clear scientific evidence that emissions from economic activity, particularly the burning of fossil fuels for energy, are causing changes to the Earth´s climate. A sound understanding of ...

For more than two decades, Botkin has been active in the application of ecological science to environmental management. Updated and revised to include the latest research in the field, the new Sixth E...

In recent years air-sea interaction has emerged as a subject in its own right, encompassing small-scale and large-scale processes in both air and sea. Air-Sea Interaction: Laws and Mechanisms is a com...

For the inhabitants of many of the world´s major towns and cities, estuaries provide their first and nearest glimpse of a natural habitat. Despite the attempts of man to pollute or reclaim it, the est...

"Marine Ecology: Processes, Systems, and Impacts offers a carefully balanced, stimulating survey of marine ecology, introducing the key processes and systems from which the marine environment is forme...

This is the first book to describe the ecology of high latitude lakes, rivers and glacial environments in both the North and South polar regions. From the lake-rich floodplains of the Arctic to the de...