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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.

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.

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.

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.

If you live on a rapidly changing planet, you'd be wise to learn how it works. The giant old forests on a skinny stretch of land on the far west coast of North America have a lot to say about living in a twitchy world.

“Each chapter is a shard of Broken Glass. Each one leads us closer to the revelation that we can make a difference in the Climate Crisis if we band together and act now.” - Windy Lynn Harris "Author Dr. Ian Prattis opens Shattered Earth in the not too distant future with a futuristic analysis of Climate Change and “the inevitable fate provided by the suicide pact engineered by corrupt corporations for most of humanity.” From there, the award-winning writer examines destructive environmental trends and practices and explores ways to protect and preserve planet Earth. Dr. Prattis ...

In 2019, Gwen Wilkinson set herself the challenge of building a canoe and paddling it the length of Ireland, along a network of inland waterways. She set out from the shores of Lough Erne and navigated a 400km journey to the tidal waters of the River Barrow in Ireland. More than just a travelogue, The Waters and the Wild explores the interwoven histories of the people and wildlife that shaped Gwen’s journey. As the adventure unfolds, she also shines a light on pioneering women who have left their mark on Ireland’s landscape – both natural and cultural. From wild camping on deserted ...

Water scarcity is a pressing global issue that demands both immediate and long-term solutions. This book explores real-world strategies to address water shortages, offering practical approaches for both emergency situations and sustainable water management. In times of natural disasters, unexpected population migration, or infrastructure failures, quick action is crucial. The book reviews effective short-term solutions such as water and sanitation kits, temporary package treatment systems, and transporting water via bottles or tankers. These immediate responses can help mitigate the effects...

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...

We owe it to the earth not to destroy it. It gives us so much to live that we have an obligation to give something back to it. The best thing that EVERYONE can do is to live without unnecessarily polluting the earth. Unfortunately, a good amount of pollution that individuals create every-day is totally unnecessary and fully avoidable. Yet they keep doing it because they are not aware of how they are pollution the earth by even small actions such as throwing away an otherwise usable blank paper into waste-basket. This book aims to create an awareness into areas where individuals can live ...

Is there evidence that people from other countries came to North America in the pre-Columbian era? Many books today say yes (Zuni Enigma, Maya Genesis, America B.C., Pale Ink, and many others). This book details a discovery of two engraved stones in the Angeles National Forest, and unique details about the site. The books explains the author's discovery, and his process of attempting to translate the marks on the rock, which he believed were linguistic. Eventually, many other unique features were found on this site which makes the site completely normal for a European ceremonial site, ...

In Escaping Nature, Orrin H. Pilkey and his coauthors offer concrete suggestions for how to respond to the threats posed by global climate change. They argue that while we wait for the world’s governments to get serious about mitigating climate change we can adapt to a hotter world through technological innovations, behavioral changes, nature-based solutions, political changes, and education.

Locked in ice for more than twenty thousand years, the lands that now make up Britain and Ireland were some of the last settled by humans. The earliest people, Mesolithic hunter-gatherers like Cheddar Man, arrived around eleven thousand years ago to find dense forests. While they lived lightly, they did introduce fire, which they used to create clearings, and this was the beginning of the reshaping of Britain’s forests.